BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 12163, 6 April 1904, Page 1

BREVITIES.

Evidence being given before the Coart of Cassation goes to establish Dreyfns’s innocence. Secret documents were' handed to the Court-martial ten years ago without the knowledge of Captain Dreyfus or his counsel.

Japanese cruisers captured a Russian transport flying Chinese colors, with tinned meat for Vladivostock. Prince Khiikop does not anticipate any important fighting before the third week in June. He says General Konropatkin intends to take no chances, Russia is offering tempting baits for the enlistment of Manchurian bandits. A number of Bang Country residents were charged at Auckland yesterday under the Maori Councils Amendment Act, 1903, with introducing intoxicating liquor into a Maori village. The cases were adjourned. By five votes to four the members of the Palmerston North Borough Council declined to receive the resolutions passed by a meeting of ratepayers charging them with inconjpetenee and asking them to resign. , The New Zealand Fisheries Company, recently formed, expect to begin operations in October. Five trawlers are now under con struction. Lord Glasgow is said to be cn airman of the company. Three Dunedin horses —Petrovna, Happy Home, and Kremlin—filled the places in the 1 empleton Handicap at Riccarton yesterday. In old tunes the old-fashioned knocker was struck upon a huge nail railed the door nail, and as in arousing the inmates of a house it came in for more blows than any other nail it was supposed to be “mor<' dead,” hence the phrase as “desd as a doornail” Judge Beresford, of the Taunton (En<*) County Court, declared from the Beach the other day: “ More betting goes on in this country than in any other in existence, and I hope the time will come when betting will fflther be legalised or put an end to altogether.” . . An Arab, to avoid a curse, wrnld lie en the ground so that the curse might pass over him. In Turkestan a particular class of man got his living by taking upon himself the sins of the departed. The character of John Thorpe in Harold Frederic’s remarkable novel, ‘The Market Place,’ is said to be drawn from the career of Whitaker Wright. One peculiar point about the wax in the Far East that promotes speculation is that it is a struggle between a nation that eats meat and one that does not.