BREVITIES,

Evening Star, Issue 11656, 17 September 1901, Page 1

BREVITIES,

?"|sgfa||es Morgan, belonging to Lyttelton, |||B§ls'ken to Auckland from Kaiboth legs broken, the result of awfecident on the schooner Huia, jS* mails of Au«ust 17 from Auckland ".^S^t.Venturas-arrived in London on the of the 14th inst > their due d a*e. llie mails from Melbourne of August 14 by the Australia arrived in London on the 14th inst., two days early. Owing to police intervention a proposed elopement of a baker, aged twenty-six, with a domestic servant, aged eighteen, lell through, and the man was arrested on a charge of abducting the girl from her home.' The parties reside at Ballarat, and proposed to travel to New Zealand together. They were arrested at the railway station. Their funds were found to j mite ' the ?irl bein S Possessed of £2, and the man having only 6d in his pocket. A nugget weighing 360z of solid gold was discovered at Rokewood (Vic.) by three fossickers. J A lady resident of New South Wales having offered to give £2,300 for the provision of additional accommodation at the Victorian Sanatorium for Consumptives if a like amount is subscribed by the people of Victoria, steps are being taken to claim the donation, and at a preliminary meeting £468 was subscribed. The Lieutenant Governor gave £IOO, the Mavor of Melbourne 100 rrumeas, and the* wife of Cr Stephens £IOO. 6 - 7 criminal sessions on August 29 John William Ford was convicted of pubksW a. defamatory libel reflecting on E. W Holder. . In sentencing him to nine months imprisonment Judge Murray said accused was actuated by a feeling of revenge'for a fancied injury,'and had made false charnres against Folder and a lady whom prisoner himself knew to be a o- 00 d woman. ° Auckland detectives last nitrht arrested Uiomas M Govern and Ann Mair Drake on L™? 0 . °f f l i ,? alin S household furniture and effects to the value of £315, the property of David Drake, of Wellington. P Dunn? a heavy fall of hail at Colac Bay on Monday a -rider who was cnusrht in it stated that the hailstones were charged with electricity or something of the nature of St Elmos fire • The horse's cars and the riders beard were shining with a pale phosphorescent glow. Mrs M'Kinley will accompany the remams of her husband to Washington, where the state ceremonials will be held, and to Canton, where the burial will take place. Queen Margherita of Italy sent the widow a. most touching message of sympathetic condolence. ' Fifteen Boers were captured at Thabanchu oil the 12th i„st. T ij. er ° 1 -f, C ? mman(, ° stacked Ferdelberc on the Lith, but were repulsed with loss by twenty-five men of" the West Yorkshire Kecfiment. The revenue of the Oran-c River Colony tor last year shows a surplus of £84,000 exclusive of telegraphs and railways Do Wet refused to discuss the proclamation w.th Pastor Murray, telling him that a pastors proper place was the pulpit. Mcvn, who was unconvinced, repeats that the ISoer women have been brutally treated by the British soldiery. Cape Town loyalists ur-re the cessation of the policy of leniency, and the adoption of stricter measures and a vigorous prose-cut-on of the war. Feeling references to the dead President were made in the principal churches of Britain on Sunday. Archbishop Temple declared that M'Kinley's death was a calamity to the civilised world. j The assassin lias bepn visited in Erie Penitentiary by his father, who is hopeful that he will reveal to the authorities the names of his confederates. The Yorks have reached Quebec. A smrcrestion from Montreal that the Duke should represent Britain at President M'Kinley's funeral has been warmly approved at Home. ' The Times ' savs it would afford the nation the deepest ratification. The festive side of the Czar's visit to France has been abandoned on account of President M'Kinley's death. Two despatch riders captured on the Transvaal-Portuguese border were circulatine: cuttings from the 'Review of Reviews' and other pro-Boer organs in England. "" ° Among the documents frmnd in the house of Broeckma. ex-Public Prosecutor at Johannesburg, it seems that durinir the past six months, treasonable correspondence has been gome on between the Boer officials at The Hague and the commandants in the field. Broeckma's news was forwarded to the pro-Boer organs in England and on the Continent, with the object of influencing the Little Englanders in the Imperial Parliament. Tn a typewritten proclamation seized at Johannesburg op Broeckma's premises Botha announced that the fighting generals had outlawed Lord Kitchener and all British officers, and had ordered burghers to kill all armed soldiers and policemen. " They made 1 me feel quite nervous ! I like women to be dignified." That was a speech made to a friend by M. Padcrewski ofter an evening party in London at which he had played, and when ladies stood on chairs to watch him, and even kissed his' hand as he passed out of the room. A proposition is put forward at Washington to send Admiral Dewey to the coronation of King Edward. It is suggested that the Admiral should be assigned the command of a large squadron of the latest types of American warships for the occasion, and the idea meets with general approval in naval circles. Prince Eitel Friedrich, the second son of the German Emperor, has formally received his commission as an officer of the Prussian Guards. The Emperor made .a speech on the occasion, in which he said the noblest task was the defence of the fatherland, the noblest weapon was the sword, and the noblest uniform was the Prussian soldier's. According to the Queensland Labor paper, the ' Worker,' Mr Page, one of the representatives of that State in» the Commonwealth Parliament, was originally a " Barnardo boy," one of the waifs and strays rescued from the streets of London, and started on a fresh career in the colonies. It is added that his gratitude takes the shape of an annual subscription of £lO to the Barnardo Homes. The Sydney policeman who arrested the young man for kissing his own wife in George street when bidding her good-bye, and the Bench that fined the dastardly criminal five "shillings for his iniquitous, outrage on public decency, deserve to go down to posterity as puritans of the most puritanical type. The defendant pleaded that he had only been married a week. There seems to be . the idea in British military circles that the Federal Commandant is expected to entertain sumptuously all and sundry, but the Minister of Defence says that the officer appointed to the command would not be expected to entertain, but to attend strictly to business, which would fully occupy his time. It has been hinted that the salary .Sir Reginald PoleCarew considers necessary to secure his services is £5,000 a year, the same amount as is paid to.Lord Roberts!