BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 12398, 11 January 1905, Page 1

BREVITIES

Lord Plunket and party are sigJsfcSJging at Rotorua. The Customs Department has informed tho Auckland Harbor Board that it has no authority to remit the duty on machinery for lighting Rangitoto beacon, and the Commissioner is unable to see his way to placing a sum on the nest estimates to cover a refund.

Speculation continues to be indulged in as to the personnel of the New Zealand football team for England, but nothing authoritative will be known till the meeting of the Colonial Union. The names put forward must not be accepted as correct. Mr W. F. Massesy, Leader of the Oppo-" sition, and member for Franklin, will coma south about Easter time and address pufalio meetings on political matters in Dunedin and one of the inland towns. A publio meeting is to be held in Christchurch shortly to further tho Exhibition movement.

_ At tie' meeting of the Commrttee of the Dunedin Horticultural Society, held last night, the prize-list for tho recently-held summer or rose show was passed for payment, and the date for the autumn show was fixed (provisionally) for March 15. That bone of contention, the bona fide traveller clause of the new Licensing! Act, formed the subject of further legal argument at Ohristchurch yesterday in oases in which sales at Sumner on Sunday were involved. Tho facts were admitted, the defendants having been served' with liquor after travelling from the citv. The magistrate reserved his decision.

The treasurer's statement submitted at yesterday's meeting of the Auckland Harbor Board showed that the net revenue for 1904 amounted to £7l,9oß—the largest amount received in any year since tie constitution of the Board. In 1872 the income waa £12,498.

In honor of the Ansrlo-French entente, the City of Paris Municipality intends to rename the Pont Des Invali&es after Kine Edward. \ '

Residents of MSmV fN.S.WL),' fecJing satisfied that recent bush fires m their locality -were caused by sparks from a railway engine, are taking proceedings again:.! the Railway Commissioners. The 'Daily Chronicle' (London)'enlivens the holiday season by telling its readers about a' Chinaman .named Ehmy Astteen, according to the cables,, who is a reformer oa a visit to London with the objecfc of planning a great big revolution, which is to commence in the South of China. This rcrajaikable personage, wlro differs from most reformers, in announcing his intentions so publicly, claims that he will soon, have command of 100,000 men. He certainly has .grroL isa Government j?Wy of framing*, ~- -*+- ■ C-.—-ft.