BREVITES.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 118, 17 November 1908, Page 8

BREVITES.

About 120 passengers travelled from Wellington • and district to Auckland by the first Main Trunk train. The "moonsluule" — a parasol for use in the evening — is the latest necessity for the smart woman's, outfit. Tho Municipal Council of Ronje have decided by 57 votes to 3 to abolish all religions teaching in elementary schools. A youth was discovered in Paris who had been deliberately starving himself for forty days, owing to an unfortunrfte love affair. Tho latest craze in. the world of fashion, which at tho present moment is ■carrying all before it. is the little handkerchief shawl. A bachelor and spinster in the Bedwoi'th district of Warwickshire have been engaged for forty years. There is no indication of an early wedding. Charles Lawrence was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour at Westminster for torturing a, parrot in a publichouse by pulling its feathers out. On tho eve of tho departure of tho Mfturetania from New York Jor Liverpool, and as the crew wcro drawn to the vessel's side to rescue a man who had fallen overboard, a party of ingenious billstickers saw ihoir opportunity and started to pasto an. onormous playbill on 4:he bows of the huge liner. But they were soon driven- off * For many years the Sultan of Turkey has not slept. in the same room for two nights in succession for fear of assassination. Only the Sultanmother knows beforehand what chamber ho will occupy. "