BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 12722, 27 January 1906, Page 12

BREVITIES.

The New Zealand Exhibition Commissioners have requested and empowered Sir Joseph Ward to purchase £SOO worth of statuary while in. Italy. A series of life-sized models of Maori chiefs is being prepared for the New Zealand Exhibition by Mr James M'Donald, of the Colonial Museum staff, Wellington. Commemorative stamps are to be issued in connection with the New Zealand Exhibition. A Chamber of Commerce for South Canterbury has been re-established. Advice from Rotorua states that 510. trout, weighing 1,7471b, were caught there between the 18th and the 22nd inst. Henry Sides, a farmer at Waihao Downs, was found shot in a paddock about half a. mile from his house on Thursday morning. In getting on to the van of a train in motion, the station-master at Ellerslie slipped, and the wheels passed over his foot, severely crushing it. Crook, who escaped from Mount Cook Oaol on Thursday, was recaptured yesterday. Mr Frederick Sutton, a verv old Napier resident, and formerly M.H.R. for that city, died yesterday. A technical school, in brick, is to be erected at New Plymouth at a cost of £0,5C0. At yesterdays sitting of the Supreme Court n Chambers Mr Jus. Drown was, by consent, appointed receiver in the matter of the Companies Act and of W. R. Cameron and Go. A Rome message advises that tie first passenger train passed through the Shnrilon tunnel yesterday. This great work conItaly and Switzerland consists of two parallel tunnels, each about 66,000ffc , Jong. A Paris message states that Ja lu-/.ob was to one vear’s imprisonment for ;f e , misappropriation, of the Printempa Savings Bank funds.