BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 11891, 20 May 1903, Page 1

BREVITIES

Auckland proposes to give aball »«,. . to Lord Raßrmrry*t departure for tatdST Wellingtonkeep* Empire Day ssTpattfe holiday. * " "" At the Nattier Supremo Govt the ea» Wylie and Co. r. Bartholomew BmT* claim for £IOO damage* for teMpaas abS for an injunction resteaming defendant from cutting timber at Piripin, vraa bawd. The claim arose out of a beemdary dboute. and His Honor gave judgment for T3» question of damages was kft owe, Hi, Honor awatk; to the case being nfarwd to him at Wellington. Tho WeDmgton Kernel dub have decided to ask that the period of fix mouths' Quarantine imposed on imported don sbsufal be seduced. Lierteoant-cokmel Messenger reskma the secretaryship of the Veterans HomeOommittee (WeDmgton), and has intimated that later on he will also resign his position as a » M gg- iJeqtenanlna&pel Banks is to act as secretary until a permanent 'anuomtment'has been "He .■ "" ■ The WeDmgton Hospital Trustees hare resolved to urge the hospital boards in the colony to join in requesting the Government to remove the duty on drugs imparted for hospital use, provided such drugs cannot be manufactured in the colony. Thnaru has approved of a design for the deceased troopers' mmwria], Toe 1 cost i* to be £460. A_strong_man •who is at present exhibiting in Paris has devised a new sensation. • Instead of pitting himself against the strength or weight of horses, he tackles a motor car. A six horse-power voiturette is brought on theVstage,. and the. athlete, planting his shoulders against the bonnet, successfully resists the en- * gibe's efforts to propel it William Schulz, of Toledo, Ohio (TJ.S.), b suing for divorce from his wife on the ground of incompatibility of temperament. He was a widower with ten children when he married her, she being a widow. All her affection, he alleges, the woman lavishes upon an aged cat, in whom she believes is re-embodied the soul of her former husband. - _A Bulgarian, student named Novitza Petrovitch has recently qmtte3~Berne on bis long journey across the world on foot. He left Uskub, in Macedonia, on Novem- » j HP*** at Berne V *»y of Buda Pesth, Vienna, and Munich. He intends walking to Paris, and from there to Havre, when he will sail to San Praneaco and Port Arthur. .Then he proposes to cross China, Siberia, and Southern Russia mto Bulgaria. Petrovitch is twentvRrade. The, object of his self-imposed l tesk is to study the customs and maWrs of the people in the different countries he visits. Stunned by falling down the bank of a brook whde endeavoring to recover his hat which had-lfeen blown off in the wind, a. builder at Lefth was drowned in less than a foot of water. Charged at Selby, Yorks, with setting chimney on fire, a man said he mashed np the furniture and put it on the fire with paraffin oil, hoping to frighten his wife and end a row. Two new Acts of Parliament came into force England on April Cremation Act, wtech enables burial authorities ifj&ey wish, to establish crematoria, under and the Midwivr* Act, winch prevents any woman acting as 8,1 clx -"7™» ut -.» certificate, or appointing as institute an uncertified person. * The English Eoyal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have re. ceived a windfall tbronsrh the d«»th of M? John Henry Long, of 43 Mbntpeffier road Kentish Town, who by his wiU has Jeft nis residuary estate, more than £4O 000 to the society. The total value of the lat^ «J«Jf ng ' s estate has been proved at £49,514. I ._ Mm . e - who lived alone in » large house at Neuffly, a suburb of Paris, was recently found dead. She had been strangled, evidently by a burglar, as an unsuccessful attempt had been made to break open th* safe. The sum of 25,000 francs in gold was found on a table in another room It is supposed that the his hurry to get away after killing Mm* Lacheze, had overlooked the money. The deceased shut herself up in the house fifteen years ago, when her husband died, and had never been outside the door smce, nor would she allow anyone t<enter it An account of her singular life was published in one of the newspapers and it is supposed that this directed the attention of a gang of burglars: to the ■£ m the A P ril issne of th" ttouse calls attention to a matter which m important when spring cleaning and decoration are in progress. The writer points out that it is possible to be poisoned bv aXaeta %l to v* o * P B ™* and wail papers. The symptoms are intense languor and weakness. The writer of the article suggests that householders would be wefl advised to obtain the opinion of an analyst as to whether the wall paper to be used'-in their houses is innocuous or other- ' wise. . Mr Charles P. Swift, who originated the great packing-case system, out of which many fortunes were made, died lately at Chicago (U.S.), aged sixty r four years. J £ estate was worth twelve millions sterhnc. • ST" 1 ** 1 ** 1 ha * another little referendum mstore. Recent events m the army have , produced a deep effect on public opinion, and have resulted in a law adding to the consfatntjon rendering penal anv where, to mutiny m the army. Thi, »A ditaon to the Constitutionhas nowlo ta " confirmed by popular vote which wTfornf the Cape-to-Cairo £ be, completed by September h thß \!2 iectation "K reaWtb« be offered an excursion bv «ii»,» * - £ tte Zambesi Palls, in tile worM. . waterfalls