IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 1831.—First steamer, Sophia Jane, arrived in Sydney from England. 1840.—Rev. J. Watkin, first mi*, sionary in Otago, landed at Waikouaiti. 1846.—Attack by Natives on military outpost in Hutt Valley. 1862.—Edward Gibbon Wakefield died. 1869.—Final defeat of Te Ivooti by Sir J. G. Whitmore; end of Urcwera campaign.
Strikes cost the United States a losj of £11.000,000 in wages last year. Flat-foot caused the discharge of thirty-eight invalids from the British Army last year. In Puerto Rico it is customary to keep new-born babies indoors for the first forty days. Crandism (2,261); A true old Scotch Whisky—thoroughly aged-in-wood. Grand House is without a Peer—sold in five size* of bottles, 12s, 6s 6d, 5s 6d, 3s, and 25.... The sale of cosmetics suggests that some 75 per oont. of the women in Britain are brunettes.
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Evening Star, Issue 21721, 16 May 1934, Page 1
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137IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 21721, 16 May 1934, Page 1
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