IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 22452, 24 September 1936, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

anniversaries. ISs7.—First issue of the 'Hawke’s Bav Herald’ (Napier). 1860.—5. E. Crockett born. 1875. —Railway opened between Oamaru and Waitaki. ’ 1889.—Eliza Cook, poetess,- died. _ 1898.—Lord Kitchener and Major Marcband met at Fashoda. Battle for Madrid is, recognised as having begun. Government forces claim success near Oviedo. Rebels report having occupied Torrijos, near Toledo. Senor Delvayo, of Spain, expected to demand League sanctions against Portugal. . . British lance-corporal killed in Palestine skirmish.- Reinforcements land at Haifa. • ■ . . Italy not, favourably impressed by Britain’s Mediterranean policy. - _ Fire smouldering on Orient liner Ormonde. Said to he under control. Increased demand overseas for British textiles. The attendance of Australians at ths Coronation celebrations in London next year will cause about .£5,000,000 to leave the country, according to Mr Casev, the Federal Treasurer. . The sheriffs of the counties in which Glasgow municipal golf courses are situated have confirmed the altered parks by-laws to permit playing of golf on those courses on Sundays. A party of 800 British schoolboys recently arrived at Copenhagen on their way to Elsinore to see the Castle of Kronborg, which Shakespeare used as the background for ‘ Hamlet.’ Nearly 50 English schoolgirls left Southampton for New York in the Britannic recently, on a three weeks tour of North America, during which they will travel some 7,000 miles.