BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 13162, 19 January 1909, Page 8

BREVITIES.

Oat mildew is prevalent in the Bangiora district, and it is feared that serious results will ensue. A five-roomed cottage .at North Invercargill, owned by Mr R. Wilson, was burned down. Insurances: House, £l5O in the United; furniture, £IOO in the South BriThe following message by pigeon post arrived in Dunedin yesterday : —“Waikare, 17/1/09, 2 p.m. No. 1. Arrived Preservation Inlet 1 p.m. ; had moderate weather on trip. Some were sick, and some were not. Some could eat, and some could not. Now all can eat, and all can keep. All of ns are thankful.—C. M’Donalp, Master.” An elephant's foot was one of the things left- by a forgetful traveller at a railway station during the past year. A Leith laborer is now a claimant for fully a million dollars left by a man named Sullivan, who died in the United • States six or seven years ago. A professor has been declaring that the modern student is not to be compared with the student of his youthful days. Nothing is so nice with any of ns as we got older. A woman who was told by the doctor that her husband hail no organic ’’ trouble, promptly told the medical gentleman that he was considerably worried by a neighboring gramophone. One lady who has bad to appear in a London County Court now knows the disadvantages of wealth. "When I had plenty of money people used to rnme to stay week-ends with me," she said pathetically; “hut now I have nothing, and well, you know." An English Judge decided the ether day —in a case which involved a r(nestion as to the wall-papering of a house—-to visit the premises and judge for himself bow the work had been done. A personal visit is worth far more than the wordy stories of witnesses. Complaint was made to a Imndon magistiate the other day in regard to two merry widows who resided on cither side of him. They amused themselves by discussing his personal appearance over the intervening space between his garden walls, and lie objected to the frankness of their criticism. But the magistrate was not able to afford him any relief. Mrs \V. C Looseley, the wife of a deacon, climbed a ladder to a height of 45ft at High Wycombe, in order.to perform the ceremony of laying the apex stone of the new Baptist church. A woman named Thaiberk. who died in a Paris asylum, had, in spite of all that could be done to prevent her. worn her petticoat day and night since her admission to the institution a year ago. When the petticoat wis examined, it was found tc contain £5.000 in bank notes and a cheque for £1 COO sewn into the lining. Since the inland postage in Paris was reduced from three-halfpence to nrie pennv two years ago the number of letters posted yearly has been increased by 190,000,000, or 27 per cent