BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 13013, 7 January 1907, Page 8

BREVITIES.

Tsio admissions to the Dunedin Hospital last week were twenty-five, and twentyjoar patients were discharged, leaving 114 in tho institution on Saturday. Two 4c*ths (Charles Wycheriey and WHUamKae) ascazred cluring the week. Jobs Mitchell, jun., a half-caste, has been <ammittad for trial at Wellington on a charge of arson. He confessed to bavins tmrnt doom his house, pleading mental derangement following bis -wife's death, and that it was a Maori custom to born down the house in which were the effects of the deceased person o<xnpying it. The place was insured for £lao in the Standard Office. • Daring the thirty-fourth week of the egg-laying competition at Blenheim 2J.08 eggs were laid, making a grand total of 72,463. r ,^;, A Sydney message, advises that Mr Williams's meat-preserving works at Camperdown were destroyed by fire. Tljo damago is estimated at £4,000. and tho insurances amount to £5,750. Fifty men aro thrown out of work. Tlie most expensivo wedding breakfast was that at Mr John Jacob Actor's wedding in IS9L It cost £IO,OOO, inclnding £4>ooo for floral decorations. Oa tho eastern coast of Ireland it rains on an average 208 days in the year; in Kngland about 150 days; at Kazan about 90 davs; and in Siberia only 60 days.