BREVITIES.
_ Department had a varr I* 13 ? tme yesterday. Ov«r 4 000 gets -wwo taken by rafl away faim Anmnber of the crew of H.M a w al . W were entertained picric wotteL nSerVOU by SaiW^Rest
At the Salvation Army Bairack.i nn evening, St&fl-captain Stagg ( 0 { Melbourne) lectored on his subject mainly from the spiritual aspect M^ e „ 1 T “* bowlers took part in the Oamarn tournament, which began yesterday, in splendid weather. A Holiness Convention was held t Trinity Church yesterday, end attracted‘i targe attendance. William Von Stumer having pleaaed guilty to embeinding £333, the moneys cf the New Plymouth Sash Company, has been remanded to the Supreme Court at AiwJrWj for sentence.
The Labor party in Auckland are putting a series of test questions to mmuctpal candidates. ,
Six hundred co-operatives are at present employed on the Northern Trank Railway. A start was made this week with the bridge over the Wanganui River at Tanmaranni
Sir Joseph Ward favors Penrhyu n iand as a site for the projected leper station, on account of its complete, isolation. lhHealth Department never intended to uye Motoihi Island, in Auckland Harbor, lor such a purpose. The Gisborne Land Board have called 0,1 three holders of grazing runs to show canse why their holdings should not be forfeited on acooont of non-residence. In
each case the mn has been left in charge of managers. The improvements made are satisfactory, and in two instances there has been limited residence cm the, property. About I*soo attended the tramway employees picnic at Waihoia yesterday. Neariy 200 persons made the excursion to Taien Beach yesterday, and ha. I ;l glorious onting. In order to prevent the substitution ol inferior goods in an original bottle an inventor who has recently secured a’ pater t on his scheme proposed to embed a diim or other coin in the body of the bottk which, he chans, will be sufficient indue, meet to secure the destruction of the vessel when it has been emptied. • m ip er was discovered frozen to death m his fitekss attic in Hungary. Alter his death it was found that he owed several thousand acres, and was, in fact, a mOlionairo.
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Evening Star, Issue 11858, 11 April 1903, Page 1
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364BREVITIES. Evening Star, Issue 11858, 11 April 1903, Page 1
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