BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 12060, 2 March 1907, Page 12

BREVITIES.

A Maori girl named Wain, four years old, -was drowned in a well adjacent to her father's residences near Paexoa, on Thursday. At a meeting of tho Chamber of Commerce at Invercargill yesterday it was resolved that the time hod _ arrived to establish a night train service between Drmodin and Christchnrch.

A boy named Frank Brice was bound over to keep the peace at Wellington on Saturday, on a charge of attempting to administer jalap to a boarding-house keeper. Mr T. JoD, the "butter king" of South Taranaki, has let a contract to the Eltham firm of Robertson and Cave to build six cheese factories, to be ready for next season. Th© contract price is £6.300.

The Eltham ' Argus' announces that Mr C. A. Wilkinson has definitely decided to contest the Egmont seat at the next General Election. His sympathies run with the Opposition, though some features of tb© Government policy have his support. It is afco stated that Mr G. V. Pearce, of-Kakaramea, will bo a candidate for the> Patea scat. A fine return of oats is to hand from a txrentv-acro farm on Edendale fctileroenfc. "The holder. Mr George Dempster, threshed his crop this week, and the record was 100 bushels to the acre. Mr John Muir. also of Edendale, has threshed cut ninety bushels to the acre.—Wyndham ■ Farmer.'

There is a keen demand for straw in the Palmerston district, and farmers who have straw for sale are disposing of it at high trices. Several stacks ot" last year's wh<?atOT straw were sold tho other day at £lO apiece. With onlv the <tbumb remaining on the left hand, and minus tho little finger (the boce of which was taken out from the wristl on the other, tie Milbnrn Kiln victim, P. Casserlev. is to be pitied, indeed. It will be some time yet before he can leave the bciarital. —' Mirror.' The WeHinc-ton City Council last night adopted a revolution in favor of purchasinff at- £3.7C0 a site between Ngahauranca and .Tohnsonvilk> for municipal abattoirs. At Otaki vesterday R. J. Staveley was emcted leave bv the stipendiary- maeifitrate to proceed against H. C. Norman tinder the Criminal Code in respect to an alteced libel contained in a letter to the Otaki 'Mail.' Matilda Morris, of Otaki. committed for trial on a chargo of infanticide. In mOrions of tons the estimated production of rig iron last vear in the United Ststcs. Germany, and Great Britain was 25. 111. and 10J respectively, says Messrs W Fallows and o<x's annual crnrular, as compared wiih 4, 2J. and 73 in 18S0.