BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 13102, 7 November 1908, Page 12

BREVITIES.

> The Poverty Bay massacre occurred on L November |, 1868. t The Prime Minister speaks at Auckland to- | night, at New Plymouth on Monday, and at } Pahiatua on Tuesday. * John Alilton died November 8, 1674. r Tho Carnegie Library will be officially I opened on the evening of December 2. : Tho Federal House passed the Iron Bonus r Bill. r It costs £2,000 to paint the Forth Bridge. . The average depth of the English Channel | is 110 ft. f England contains about 13,000 square miles | of coalfields. j Nearly 7,000 competitors will take part in ' > the Llangollen Eisteddfod. i Russia has no fewer than eighty-six public ' holidays in the year, i Sixty-four out of every 1,000,000 of the i . world’s inhabitants are blind. [ One thousand cubic feet of gas will yield as much light as 501b of candles. . In London there is an average of one [ clergyman to every 2,000 persons. ! Nearly a thousand bowlers were engaged in 1 the great Blackpool tournament. [ f The film of a bubble is the 2,500,000 th ; part of an inch m thickness.