BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 12760, 13 March 1906, Page 8

BREVITIES.

Two distinct licensing. tickets go to the poll at the Thames to-day. Nelson has decided to be represented at the Exhibition as a province. The Premier is at Foxton to-day. He returns to Wellington to-morrow. The Pope is reported to have summoned seven. French bishops to resign. A dressmaker working, in Kent street, Sydney, was found to bo suffering from plague. Leigh Hunt was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment at Hokitika yesterday for breaking and entering. Timaru "Borough Council have voted £75 towards the cost of the South Canterbury bay at the Exhibition. The University of Oxford has accepted the late Mr Stephen William Silver's collection of New Zealand birds. By an earthquake in Bashabr (one of the Indian hill States) eight persons were killed and twenty-six injured. It was decided at a meeting at Gisborne yesterday to secure about 600 ft of space for the Gisborne district at the Christchurch Exhibition. A bricklayer named Pratt fell into a lime tub at the Thames. It is feared that he will lose the sight of one eye, while the other is in danger. The meetings at the tent mission, in South Dunedin corftinue full of interest. Mr Bewley's solos are a treat. There have been several additions to tie church. The business of the lightering firm of Kennedy and Evans, established at Gisborne many years ago, has been purchased by the Gisborne Sheep Farmers' Frozen Meat Company. The members of the Land Purchase Board are at present in Dunedin. They have been considering the State acquisition of Hillend, Clifden, and Corriedale Estates for close settlement. A Maori named Tawa, aged forty, - was found dead on the road between Onewhero and 'his home at Kokonga (Auckland) yes terday. His neck was broken, and it H believed that as he was riding home on hit horse he was thrown. As a result of their refusal to pay the poll tax levied by the Natal Government, the chief Gobizembe and his tribs have been fined 1,200 cattle and 3,500 sheep; whilst the chief Unskofeli has handed over 100 cattle, being the fine imposed on him by Colonel Mackenzie. The Beautifying Association of Christchurch have decided to ask the Scen:-ry Preservation Committee to inspect Deaa's Bush at Riccarton, and if approved, recommend that a sum be voted by the Government towards the cost of its acquisition for a public reserve. The Timaru Borough Council last i "gl'tadopted the report of a committee recommending the acceptance of the offer ->f Messrs Scott Bros., of Christchurch, to 'nstal an electric plant for street-lighting ard the supply of light and power to privice consumers. The timber industry remains brisk at the Thames. The Selwyn Craig, barquentine, has just left with 360,000 ft of timber for Australian ports. The barquentines lima and Ha-nda Isle are at present loading. A proposal is made that the Harbor Board should construct a wharf costing £IO,OOO to cope with the future requirements of the timber export trade. A special meeting of. the Christcrrarch Tramway Board was held yesterday afternoon to consider matters in connection with the contract with the Electrical Construction Company. The secretary was instructed to write to the Board's engineer to the effect that the Board have been advised by their solicitors that, the contract time having, expired, they should inform him that the Board intended to enforce the penartiesiprovided for in the contract under agreement with the Construction Company. -- The Board's engineer is constituted sole arbitrator on the points of dispute. Mr W. W. Astor has given directions for the building of the finest apartment hauise in New York, at a cost of £600,000. It will occupy an entire block in the upper •west, side of the city, and will be called the Apthorpe, ■_,.. , ' . t