IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 21724, 19 May 1934, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. ' . —May 19. • . 1795.—James Boswell died. 1847. Attack by Natives on settle* ment of Wanganui. ' 1848. —Mexico ceded California and New Mexico to the United States. 1849. —William Hamilton attempted to shoot Queen Victoria. 1898.—William Ewart, Gladstone died. • —May 20. 1506.—Death of Columbus. 1857.—Delhi, captured from muti* neers by Sir Archdale Wilson. 1861.—Gold discovered at, Gabriel’* Gully, Otago. 1867. —Foundation stone of the Albert Hall, London, laid by Queen. Victoria. • ' , 1883.—Death of Rev, Josiah Hanson (aged 98), the original Uncle Toni of Mrs Beecher-Stowe’s story, ‘ Dncls Tom’s Cabin.’ 1922.—P. and 0. steamer Egypt sunk in collision; ninety-live lives lost. Economic nationalism is not a disease, but a symptom of the coming of a leisure State.—Mr Walter Elliot. . Jewry only became of world importance when it died as a nation in arms.—Professor A. F. Pollard. J If a man in Britain leaves/ at 'hi* 'death, £1,000,000, his heirs receive only £600,(100, the rest going to the Treasury. Wellington City Council lias definitely decided to remove the Town- Hall tow-er in the interests of public safety. Wellington Fire Board will restore on July 1, 5 per cent, of the 10 per cent, wages cut. Grandism (5!,264): Heal Eum—Old Lou« don Dock, No. 1 Jamaica—revives, restores, refreshes. Not the cheapest, but the best procurable—l2s bottle.... Broadcasting in Russia, to which th» Soviet has granted £2,000,000 for improvements, is conducted in sixty-foup languages. Overcrowding and sub-letting was * social problem in England in 1592, when an Act of Parliament was directed against it.