IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19799, 24 February 1928, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. IGSl.—Handel born. 137 U.—East detachment of Imperial troops left New Zealand. 1875. —Establishment of Senate in Era nee. 1887.—Death of James Macandrcw. 1902.—Gallantry of New Zealanders in an action against Do Wet near liotbasberg (lost twenty-seven killed and forty-one wounded out of the company of eighty-four). ] 91(3.—Germans took Fort Douamont. ]9l7.—General Maude captured Kut. An ideal is an idea trying to realise itself in the external world.—Dean Inge. Music which Sir Henry Coward and I do not like to-day will bs A 1) C in lift v years’ time.—Professor Percy Buck. One and a-half million herrings were landed at Plymouth on one day in January —a record catch for the season. Experience of Sooullar and Chisholm s Furniture is that it le the cheapest in the city Test it f or yourtel®e» fn th« quarter ending September 30 last 83,947 boy babies and 80,062 girl babies were born in England and Wale*. The total number of books published in Great Britain in 1927 was (according to the 4 Publishers’ Circular ’) 13,810—a record.