BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 12061, 4 March 1907, Page 8

BREVITIES.

Eggs to the number of 1,678 were laid at the Blenheim competition last week—a grand total for tbe forty-two weeks of 87.632. The Westport Coal Company’s output last week was 8,620 tons. On Saturday at Napier the Natives Land Commission received n petition, from a-num-ber o£ Waimaxama natives, praying that their lands might not bo compulsorily taken nor that they be prevented leaving their property to whom they desired. Twenty patients were admitted to tho hospital last week and twenty-two were discharged, and there wore two deaths (Hannah Mifiiken and Henry Crowe). There were IXS patients on Saturday. A AXaori witness informed tho Auckland Supreme Court that be could not speak English. All the words with which he was acquainted in that language were “Ida ora” and “ tenakoo ” ! There is a proposal that all the lawyers in Italy should go on strike as a protest against some grievance with which they are dissatisfied. A critic of the fashions declares that if mule man would discard black clothes and dress in brighter hues we would all feel gayer and better. “ Everybody gets drunk in Japan on Christmas Day,” says a writer on the Far East Country, “ but a cultivated Japanese is never offensively drunk.” It is stated that the cost of the dinner given annually to Troon golf caddies by Air Peter AI. Coats, of Parsley', amounts to about twenty guineas. The function is carried out in fine style. Someone lias invented a cowcatcher for motors with pneumatic cushions, which gently hoists the unwary pedestrian when the automobile comes in contact with him, and softly deposits him on the muddy road in tho rear of the vehicle. A man who committed suicide tho other day left a letter asking the coroner’s jury not to return a verdict of “ temporary insanity,” but rather to decide that the proper verdict was “out of work.” Open all doors and windows and let the winds blow through the house for an hour and a-half each day, and the chances of any of the family taking influenza ane greatly reduced, writes one who claims to know something about the disease. One newspaper man declares that the finality in new golf balls will not be reached till one is invented which will whistle till it is found after a long drive. “If the lords are given plenty of rope they will soon fill their cup of iniquity to overflowing,” is a recent gem of mused metaphor delivered by a Labor M- It A fashion newspaper is greatly gratified that it is no longer necessary for tbe highly educated girl to dress in a dowdy fashion- It is said she now dresses her hair with taste and has buried her big boots.

In Russia a man is not allowed to many after bo has reached eighty years, or after ho has bad three wives. A Chippenluim bridegroom" was carried into church on a chair, having sprained an ankle an honr before 1 tho wedding ceremony. It is said that 14,000 victims of tho opium habit have been cured Within a few weeks in the Malay States by the. use of a plant recently discovered in Selangor. At Tunbridge Wells Farmers’ Club convivial gathering nearly thirty toasts were announced, and over 100 speeches were made. One member spoke thirty times on different topics. \ Men wish they didn’t have any Harder times than boys think they are having. “My mother wears a No. 2 shoo,” said the‘first little girl, proudly. “Pooh!” rejoined the other little girl, in a tone redolent with contempt. “That’s nothing. My mother’wears a No. 6.” The cancellation of the registration of the Wellington Hairdressers’ Assistants’ In-dustrial-Union is notified in the ‘Gazette.'’ . Mamma: “You should be polite, dear, and offer to shave your candy with papa,” Little Margie: "1 would, mamma, if I was sure he’d be polite and refuse it.”