IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 1790. —Chatham Islands discovered by Lieutenant Broughton, of H.M.S. Chat, ham. 1820. —Queen Caroline, after her trial, went in state to St. Paul's. 1875.—Foundation stone laid of Foresters’ Hall, Port Chalmers. 1877.—Passing of Education Act providing for free and compulsory education for New Zealand. 1910. —Terra Nova (Captain Scott) sailed from Port Chalmers for the Antarctic. 1916.-—Sir John Jellieoe became First Sea Lord, and Sir David Beatty took command of Grand Fleet. A weeping willow that sheds real tears has been discovered at Milton, Massachusetts. Due to a canker in its roots, the leaves of the tree drip continually day and night. Puzzled at the loss of milk yielded by his goats, a farmer of Yrshatz, Yugoslavia, investigated. He discovered that snakes were milking the animals as they lay on the ground. Ignorance of his wife’s name resulted in Senor Mariano Suquet’s application for a divorce in a Spanish court being refused. He has been married for eleven years.
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Evening Star, Issue 21890, 29 November 1934, Page 1
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163IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 21890, 29 November 1934, Page 1
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