BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 13092, 27 October 1908, Page 8

BREVITIES.

The Wairarapa. was wrecked on the Great Bamer October 27, 1894. Invercargill Ministers' Association resolved to place on record their conviction that the effects of No-license in Invercargill have been decidedly beneficial to the community as a. whole. The Salvation Army collected in New £?}* during self-denial week £ll 630, £760 more than last year. ' The Arbitration Court's award in the Wellington engineers' dispute fixes the hours at forty-seven per week. Competent engineers are to receivo Is 4£d per hour, and workers on night shifts 2s per hour. r President Roosevelt born October 27, 1858. A Foxton fisherman states that up to this time last year he and his mates caught whitebait to the value of £SOO, but this eeason he had only earned £SO. late frosts, he thinks, are responsible for the scarcity. Captain Hatton died October 27, 1905. Reports are current in British shipping circles that the two White Star linere that are to eclipse in size the Lusitania and Mauretania are to be built in the yards of Harland and Wolff at Belfast, but the keels will not be laid till after the New Year. Will the City Fathers of Dunedin please note: Owing to the success of their municipal bowling greens, the City Council of Leeds have decided to improve the accommodation thereat by erecting pavilions in five of the parks. Four hundred deserters from the German Army have found their way to Verdun (France) since the beginning of this year. ■ Mr Massey . persists >n exaggeration—e.g., his iterated assertion that the cost of the new .Parliamentary-Governmental Buildings will total £425,000. The Prime Ministers* answer is that the- gloss cost wilL.be £225,000.,