BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 13014, 8 January 1907, Page 1

BREVITIES.

The reproach of ” not. keeping the cradles full” cart hardly bo _ levelled at Landr.owne. Masterton, for dunng the past six month no fcwffl than four families have been increased by the advent of t'Wra 'Hw training siiip Amokura, late Sparrow. at present in Wellington, at now ready to undertake the work for which sue was acquired by the Government. _ Tin- vessel has undergone a complete overturn!, ihe regulations governing admission to tne training ship are at present before 11.5 Excellency the Governor. The Coronation Hotel, Eltham. W.i, broken into on Sunday night, and £SO v. taken. Apparently the tlticf was disturbed, for a considerable stun ’>f gold and cheques was untouched. R. W. Manning, the licensee of the Mandeville Hotel, ivaiapoi, was hiK-d £5 for snpphring liquor on a Sunday. A Hebrew Bible in the Vatican weighs 3201b, and is the largest Bible in the world. It is all in manuscript. Glass brushes are used by artists who decorate china. They are made of glass fibres so thin that they seem like spun silk. .. , In 1841 only thirteen Acts of Parliament were passed, but this was made up for in 1846, when no fewer than 570 Acts became law. During the Christmas week betweenforty and fifty marriages were celebrated in Wellington. People sometimes wonder how sly grogsellers manage to pay tlto heavy fines tlvcy do, and generally smilingly- But Ai tlw* statement of a correspondent of a Taihajtc paper is true, that they buy whisky at 6s a bottles and retail it at the rate of £2 a bottle, it is easy to sec where the money comes from. Sirs Cameron, a pauper living in the hamlet of Bainault, Ross-otarr, Scotland, has come into a fortune of £20.000 through the death of her brother, who emigrated to New Zealand about sixty years ago. Her fust act was to repay tho parish authorities all they had expended upon her during the last twenty years. The late Mr Arthur Briscoe, formerly a partner in Messrs Briscoe and Sons. Australian merchants, has left an estate valued at £380,000, a large amount of which has been devised to charitable and philanthropic institutions (says the ‘ Financial Times’).

In connection, with tbo reported esc.hango of territory between France and England, Sir Joseph*Wajd states that he has. been in receipt of conummicatians on the subject, bat such oammzmicaiions are of a confidential nature, and could not be made public without, authority from .the Home Gcwenaataifa