IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 20061, 29 December 1928, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

anniversaries. —December 29.—■ 1170. —Thomas A’Beckelt murdered, ISU!). Gladstone born. 1836. —Site of Adelaide fixed by Colonel W. Bight, 1850. —Outbreak of second Kaffir War. jß9s.—Dr Jameson s ride into Iransvaal from Mafeking. . 1902. Coronation Durbar at Demi began. , . , , 191(5.—Rasputin shot and body thrown into Neva. 1920.—Italian Royalist troops retake Eiume. —December 30. 1840.—First issue of New Zealand Government ‘ Gazette.’ 1853.—First meeting of Otago rrovincial Council. . 1859.—Lord Macaulay died. 18(55.—Rudyard Kipling'born. 1903. Disastrous fire at Iroquois Theatre, Chicago; 587 lives lost. 1903.—Death of Baroness BurdettCoutts, aged ninety-two. Births in Englamland Wales during 1927 numbered 654,172, giving a birth rate of 16.6, the lowest on record. What is the use of repining, For where there's a will there’s a way. To-morrow the sun may be shining. Although it looks cloudy to-day. So have a Dewar's Imperial A hen owned by a Flamborpugh fisherman laid a large egg inside 1 which was a smaller egg, with shell complete. For the first time for twenty-six years the Egyptian gallery at the British Museum is being thoroughly “done up.” At the present rate of increase, the population of the world, which is now about 1,95(1 millions, .will be doubled in 104 years.