BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 13099, 4 November 1908, Page 8

BREVITIES.

It was a “ bricklielcler ” yesterday at Sydney, where the thermometer registered 95deg in the shad.;, while in several of the country districts it was as high as 106deg, A Fifeshire woman gave birth recently to triplets, but two of the infants died shoitly after birth. The mother and father were the first persons in tho district to bo married under the Deceased Wife’s .Sister Art. A great number of the hotels in Loudon arc closing voluntarily owing to the want of trade. It is explained that the Londoner is dunking loss alcohol than he used to. and that the tea taverns and Lyon’s establishments arc proving too attractive. Ibe busiest railway run of a ''booked’' train in the summer of 1908 was credited to the Norlli-Fastern t'oinpany, which attained a speed of 61.7 miles an hour. The next was the Caledonian Company, with 60.9 miles. Mendelssohn died November 4, 1347. _A poll taken at Oamaru on the question of borrowing £50,000 in order to jjnrchaso a new dredge resulted in the proposal being defeated by 44 voles. The Prime Minister has. been invited to address a public meeting at New Plymouth on November 9. Wellington Hosjiitil Trustees received £lll subscribe',! bv 162 Chinese residents of the city. The Shipwreck Eelief Society have a credit balance of £172 12s lid. Alfred Domett died November 4, 1837. John \V. Gates, an American multi-mil-lionaire, who seeks admission to New York’s most exclusive set. has just ordered for his dinner table a set of gold fingerbowls .that will cost £1,200. At a recent coroner’s inquest in Northeast London the other day no fewer than five out of the twelve jurors could not write their names or even spell them. A female passenger by train from Bishop’s Stortford to London pulled the communication cord and stopped the train because her spectacles had fallen out of the carriage window. Mr Melton Prlfcv, the celebrated war correspondent and artist, has married Miss Georgina Douglas, of Chelsea. His first wife was killed by a tramcar in the streets of London just a year ago. Giving evidence before tho Liverpool magistrates as to the condition of two of his passengers, a city cabby was very precise : “ They wasn't stupid drunk,"’ your Worships; they was nasty drunk !”