BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 12900, 24 August 1906, Page 8

BREVITIES.

. -Ar Italian Commission, who intend to inquire into the colonisation question in the western regions of Australia, ffiave sailed from Italy by the German liner Gera, The Wellington City Council have decided (o erect a municipal abattoir. *V meeting of the Bullet Railway League was held in the Westport Town Hall, and it- was resolved to ask the Government to place £50,000 on this year's Estimates towards the construction of the WestportInangahna. connection with the Alimand Railway. Notice of appeal has been lodged by Air Hanley, (of Gore) in connection with a sly grog case in which appellant was fined £SO for selling liquor in the Maiaura No-liccnsc district. Decrees nisi were granted at Wellington yesterday in the cases Harriet Cock v; Geo. Cock (drunkenness, cruelty, and failure to maintain), Alice Harrison v. Job Harrison failure to comply with an order for the restitution of conjugal rights), Kathleen Grinton v. David Grinton (misconduct), Robert W. Munro v, Lydia M. Munro (desertion), M. A. Whitburn v., James H. Whitburn (misconduct), Mary A. Day v. Frederick W. Day (misconduct). In the action Sophia Harriot Howat v. Charles Howat an nder was made for the restitution of conjugal rights. Alise Musgrove, an Englishwoman, has made the Crown Prince Olaf a present of a beautiful little island near Hardangor Fjord, on the west coast of Norway (says the Christiania correspondent of the ‘ Slaniard ’). The island has a natural harbor, and some fine shooting and fishing. The buildings are insignificant, and will need rebuilding for the Prince. General Sir Alfred Turner, addressing cadet boys at Lower Edmonton (England),' said that Frederick the Great once said he would undertake to make any man a soldier in a month. Times had greatly changed since then, but it could be raid with truth now that any man who could shoot well could be made a soldier in a month. Plans for an immense office building, to he the highest skv-scraper in tlie United States, have been filed in New Atork. The site is at the junction of Broadway and Liberty street-. The building will have forty-one storeys, and including the tower will be 625 ft high. . “ Tho paralysing impotence of twelve millions of Jews in the face of the Russian St. Bartholomew is one of the meet humiliating phenomena in all Jewish historv,” says Mr Israel Zangwill. The Paris Municipal Council arc to consider the advisability of pulling down the Eiff-'l Tower, one of the landmarks of Paris, when it becomes the property of the city. There is much division of opinion anmng councillors on the subject. . Some think tho tower should bo kept for scientific purpose?, and suggest that ifc should be leased to the company who have exploited it since 1889. Tho poor motor ear has much to answer for Owing to the dust raised by mol or cars dulling the edge of scythes, Alid-Sussex farmers slate- that it now‘takes a man two days to cut an acre of grass, whereas it only t(Kik him ono day before motor cars were generally used. An interesting judgment was given by tlie Civil Tribunal of the Department of (he Seine. A tenant claimed compensation from h:s landlord on account of the insanitary condition of Lis lodging. The Court appointed an export, and after receiving bis report ordered the landlord to pay 550fr (£22) damages. There is to lie a- concertina contest in Loudon in September, and several concertina bands from tho North of England will take part.