BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 12884, 6 August 1906, Page 8

BREVITIES.

A Blenlieim message states that for the twelfth week of the egg-laying competition the total for the week' was 2,072, and the grand total 14,761. The highest for ie week wore .v. Brooks. (Silver WyandottesU: ■32; Franco .(Silver Wyandottes), 31 ;■ Marlborough (White Leghorns), 31; Edwards {White Leghorns), 30 V Izard (Buff Wvan■dottesiv 36. ;-•-■• ■■:• ■■ ;;■■ ■ .-■ •.,;■-•■ ■ ■ : * ■ \yeiringtoh v rcpresentativcs of every department of- the New- "Zealand Railways passed - trip following, resolution:—" That . this' meeting of Wellington Now Zealand -Railway employees cordially approve of the , action of the general ma-nager in initiating a movement among railway men to snb■"Scribe to av national- memorial' td'-'pcfpseW -ate the memory of the-" late Hon. R; J. Soddon."" ;* '- • : fil V a i accident'hapiiened' at Cromwell. Two brothers named Williamson, one ag d about eleveh; and the' other about seven years, were; playing with a pea'rifle. "In some way'unexplained "the younger lad was shot, the bullet going, through the right wrist, and. then into tho side, and lodging in the kidney. The boy died before the doctor arrived. Jerome Furlong, a young man, reported to the police, at Auckland,on Saturday n ght that he had been shot in . the neck near his home in. Newton by some unknown man, who ran away; 'Furlong savs he heard the report, saw the flash, and then felt a stinging sensation in the throat, ihe wound is not considered serious.' - _Durihg the year ended 31st March passengers were carried on the Wellington electric trams—an average of over 1,130,000 per month. . ' An inquest was held at Christchurch on Saturday concerning the death of a voung man named Hugh Ernest Copplestone", who shot himself at Sydenham the previous day A verdict was returned " That deceased committed suicide while in a state of unsound mind." There were remaining in hospital at the beginning of last week from the previous week altogether. 107 patients. During last week 25 cases were admitted and 17 discharged, while two deaths occurred, those of Sarah Flanagan and James Wilson Owing to want of.-support from the largest manufacturers and expected exhibitors at the International Exhibition, it has been decided to ahandon 'the North Otago bay. Intending-exhibitors will now have to-make their own anang ments A motor car accident happened to His -hxoetlency the Governor at Wellington As ho was driving down Wellington terrace in company, with Cantain Braithwaite the front axle of the car broke, and one of the wheels came off, but tho car was moving slowly, and fortunately no one was hurt.