BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 12872, 23 July 1906, Page 8

BREVITIES.

The total for the tenth week of the egglaying competition at Blenheim was 1,791, bringing the grand total up to 10,779. Tho highest pens were:—A. and P. Association 34, Middleton 32 (both white Leghorns), Coleman (silver Wyandottes) 50, Oookes (white Leghorns) 30* Brookes (silver Wvandofctes) 29, Boyes (silver Wyandottes) 29. In respect to the assent given in Chambers by the Chief Justice to an application by two of the defendants in the case of Braund v. M'Lean, Neill, and Fraser for a change of venue from Wellington to Dunedin, an application to review the decision has been tiled in the Wellington Supreme Court by Mr Braund. On dit that the Hon. Thomas Fergus, ■Messrs G. C Israel, and Wm. Scott have been elected as representatives of the metropolitan word on the Education Board. The official declaration of resuite will be made on August 2 There were 119 patients in the hospital at the commencement of last week, thirtyfour patients were discharged during the woek, and there was one death (Richard Taylor), while thirty-two new cases were admitted, leaving 116 patients in the institution. A baby girl was baptised by mistake at Trenton, New Jersey, in the name of James Edward' M'Laughlin. An Act of legislation will have to 'be pnssed to rename her. By the end of 1907 the port of Hamburg will possess the greatest floating dock in the world. It is now under construction in the shipyard of Messrs Blohm and Voss, at Hamburg, and is to have an accommodation capacity of 35,000 tone. Its length will be 520 ft, 'so that the largest warships and ocean liners will be able to use it. The dock will be eventually towed to Brunshausen. on the Lower Elbe, where it can be utilised by the German fleet in case of war. In the Island of Sark the most serious offences are trespaslng and leaving gates unlocked, for the result is that often the cattle get on to the cliffs and fall into the sea. There are 400 inhabitants and one prison, but it never had but one prisoner, a small girl, who had stolen a handkerchief, i"d she sobbed so loudly that they let her crat.