BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 12366, 2 December 1904, Page 7

BREVITIES

Tho body of a man, supposed to bo one Ballanger, was found in the riverlat Silverstream. Wellington, with tho hands tied behind the back.' There were two cuts on the face. It is supposed to be a case of suicide. The Otaki Licensing Committee yesterday decided to forfeit the license Held by one Barnett, on the grounds that he had left his premises without permission,- and on the application of his wife the Committee appointed her eldest sod, Elijah Barnett, to hold the license until June next. The Premier yesterday promised a Christchurch deputation to lay the matter of tho proposed international exhibition,before the Cabinet nest week. Owing to <he present rolling stock On tho Wellington tramways having been found .insufficient, nine more cars art to he ordered, three of which will be built locally. New Plymouth held its agricultural show yesterday. ‘All classes were Well represented, the number of entries being a record one. At the meeting of the Wellington City Council last night a letter was read from the Premier pointing out that there was no municipal inspection of scaffolding used in connection with buildings, and asking that a by-law be passed giving some municipal cfficer authority to make such inspection. It Was decided to reply that no Act gave the Council power to interfere with scaffolding erected anywhere except on the Council’s own land or above footpaths. For the erection of such, builders have to adhere to the city engineer’s plans. Would Nelson, Wellington, Napoleon, Marlborough have ever achieved their undying fame had they and their Governments been connected by a telegraph wife?— 'Daily Express.’ The ‘Lyttelton Times’ reports that as the result of a departmental inquiry held at Sunnyside within the past few days if has been decided to transfer five of the attendants, while two others have been disrated. Attendant. Boyes has been transferred to Seacliff.

A letter written by a wife to the husband she had deserted was handed to Mr Justice Denniston, in Christchurch, during the trial of a divorce suit. His Honoris only remark, after reading the letter, was; “It’s a mixture of the ‘Family Herald 1 and attention to her' luggage.’ 1 A Good Sign.—During the past three months no fewer than twenty-five employees of ihe match factory at Newtown have resigned in order to get married; According to the ‘Tailor and 'Cutter,’ there is said to be only one man in London ■who presents a correct living picture .of how the Scottish kilt should bo worn, and bo is a sergeant-major in the London Scottish Volunteers. Professor MacAlistcr, addressing students at Guy’s Hospital, read some ancient prescriptions. Among them was one compiled by an Egyptian monarch for the hair. It consisted of equal parts of dogs’ ehws and calves’ hoofs boiled in oil. The king was supposed to have specially recommended this for the use of his queen. Pew loyal children live in greater splendor than the Heir-prcslimptive to the ] Throne of Japan, a boy two years eld. I He is said to have no fewer than twelve nurses and attendants, and an English and French governess. i A woman told the Shoreditch (London) coroner that a doctor informed her that her husband, upon whose body an inquest was being held, suffered from “ammonia.” Asked if her husband was a temperate man, she replied: “Oh, yes; ho was good-tem-pered.” Tho favorite horse of one of tho Now York fire brigades fell and broke a leg whilst galloping to a fire on a recent night, but all attempts to make him stop were useless. He dragged the engine for half a mile over bad roads (says a veracious chronicler), and placed it in a position in ’ front of tho. burning building before he could bo induced to halt. The original MS. of Keats’s ‘Hyperion’ has been purchased by the British Museum authorities. Edinburgh has just added two female sanitary inspectors to tho municipal establislunent.