IN A NUTSHELL
anniversaries. 1769. —Captain Cook first sighted New Zealand. . , , _ . 1803.—First convicts arrived at Port Phillip. 1830. —Commencement of the Black Lino ” in Tasmania to drive aborigines on to Tasman Peninsula. 1849.—Edgar Allan Poe died. . 1894. —Oliver Wendell Holmes died. 1914.—Antwerp evacuated. 1918. —British captured Le Sars. 1916. —Raid off American coast by submarine U 53. New aeroplane company in Great Britain producing cheap owner-pilot machine at £193. . . . Notorious Chinese bandits join Government and are appointed public protectors. ... , Increased returns revealed in British railway traffic figures. Lively discussion on armaments at British Labour Conference. Conservative leaders arraigned. Interesting .experiments being made in road construction in Britain. . Empire Exhibition to be held in Glasgow in 1938. . ‘ Hamlet ’ has been translated mto the Kirghiz language (spoken in Russian Central Asia) by the Kirghiz writer, M Tshambetoff. A skull and bones believed to be 1,200 years old were uilearthed recently by quarrymen at Chalkland quarries, Portland, Dorset. Charles Newton, aged 11. won the freckles championship at Atlantic City (U.S.A.). the j’udges deciding he had 1,895 on his face.
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Evening Star, Issue 22463, 7 October 1936, Page 1
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176IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 22463, 7 October 1936, Page 1
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