BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 12026, 26 October 1903, Page 8

BREVITIES

Dining cars are to be run ou th- Roiorua. train service from December 1.

A gang of thieves entered th-2 gum store of Messrs Paterson and Co., Auckland, on Saturday, and got away with live bags of gum, valued at about £lB or £2O.

Professor Kruse. who has rescued the London popular concerts, owns three titradivarius violins, one of whicli. purchased by him last year for £2.250, is among the finest in existence.

Employed in those workshops for the manufacture of violins where there are from one to rive workmen. Germany has no fewer than 1,057 makers* of those instiunients.

Tke bodies of adults used to realise in the early part of last century about £4. Children's bodies were sold at s.> much per inch, and ; n this manner wo:ild fetch as much as £lO. Until an Act was passed to enable the bodies of convicts, paupers, executed criminals, and others to be used for dissection, these graveyard ghouls <]id a verv brisk business.

An anonymous donation of £i.,W<o has just been made to the funis of the Melbourne Hospital.

The theft and mutilation of newspapers at the Melbourne Public Library has long been a source of annoyairce, and an exiunple was made recently of a man who had been detected mutilating a paper. He was charged at the City Police Court, Lnd tenteuced to seven days' mi^rismiHi-nt. The Hobart people are leavi.-ij us far behind in the matter of the Carnegie public library. Competitive designs have been called for the bunding, which is to te placed at the rear of t'ie Town Halt, rrd the money has been churned.

At Perth (W.A.) Janra Horn, wlu.-, s.'tc-r two trials, was convicted cf crmimajiy assaulting his step-daughter, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonmenr. and Ins v.ife, Maria Horn., for aiding and abettirg te s;x months'. '

The death is annouuovd at Adelaide of Mr Maurice Salon, M.L.G.. at the age of seventy-two years. Deceased, who look an active part in the passages cf TiTr»n.s"s Act and the Bill for legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister, was an 'advanced Liberal in many respects. He was a frequent visitor to this colony, where two oi his married daughters reside. Mr Percy Davidson, Morjya, /X.S.W.), has invented a bicycle boau "Tinvrgb. pji ordinary boat an axle has h?ea run, Vent near the centre for pedals, and i:n each end a wheel with fans attache.! l«ns 1 een fixed. This is worked as on an ordinary bicycle, the speed attained bdas much sreater/than bv-oars.