BREVITIES.
Iho Minister of Public Health has instructed the Inspector-General of Hospitals to report on the Lyttelton casualty ward scandal. Mr James Conn, who has been appointed to a position in the Customs Department at Christchurch, was last night presented with a . PJirsc of sovereigns, by his commercial friends.;- I Mr. WMter Wright made- the presentation on behalf of the subscribers. Mr David Seine's (Melbourne) estate paid£92,4B6 in probate duty. Honey is a good substitute for cod liver oil. Wooden sleepers on railways last about fifteen years. One-fifteenth of the inhabitants of Spain are nobles. •The heart of a Greenland whale is often a yard in diameter. The Vatican contains 208 staircases and 1,100 different rooms. In Japan there are about five hundred earthquakes every year. The city of Mexico has the highest deathrate of, any capital in the civilised world. The first wet docks in England were the Commercial Docks, in London, constructed about the year 1660.
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Evening Star, Issue 12101, 6 November 1908, Page 8
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