IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 21706, 28 April 1934, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. —April 28. 1707. —Earl of Shaftesbury, philanthropist, born. 1887. Post office, Wellington, destroyed by fire. • 1893.—Standard Bank of Australia suspended payment. / 1915.—Allies made further advance on Krithia front. —April 29. 1804.—British attack on the Gate Pa (Tauranga) repulsed. 1873 —Opening of the northern railway line from Christchurch. 1881. —Tararua wrecked at Waikaka Point; 130 lives lost. 1882. —Heath of John N. Darby, founder, in 1827, of the Plymouth Brethren. 1884. —Statute passed at Oxford University admitting women to examination. ~ . 1888. —H. M. Stanley met Emm Pasha on Lake Nyanza. 1889. —First meeting of Samoan Conference in Berlin. 1893.— Summary Court martial abolished by Statute. . 1900, —Uganda placed under influence of British East Africa Company. 1907. —Waipori power turned on. 1907.—H0n. W. M. Bolt died.

Twenty centenarians hi one village is the proud record of \ erbasz, in the Balkans, which has only four hundred inhabitants. . Convicts in Cyprus receive a fixed wace during imprisonment, a twelveyear sentence requitting a man to the extent of £SO. Gramlism (2,246); We invite you to match Grand Cognac against any 'lhreo Star Brandy sold to-day—costs shillings a bottle less—l2s, Half 6s 6d.„. More than ten out of every thousand school children in the poorer districts of Great Britain are stated to suiter from malnutrition. Over 100,000 salmon eggs from English hatcheries have been exported to Canada for restocking the salmon rivers of British Columbia.