BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 14003, 9 March 1909, Page 8

BREVITIES.

Germany sends 20,000.000 feathers per year to England for millinery purpose. In England and Wales law and order are maintained by a police force of 45.202

: men. | By means of electricity leather can now . 1-p obtained from the raw hide in four j days. | In the Supreme Court at Gisborne yesv terday Patrick Morris received three years ! for burglary. | It is estimated that at least 32,000 heg- ! gars in Vienna are making better livings : tlmi workmen. I A girl of eight was brutally assaulted by j a Cingalese at Gisborne. The child's condition is critical. Eighteen tons of steel disappear daily on the London and North-Western Railway through wejir and rust. The Japanese navy, in actual strength <i,nd efficiency, is noW reckoned to be the third fleet in the world. i Several articles which are believed to have belonged to the Rio Loge were found I near Island Bay (Wellington). j No member of the British Royal Family | in the direct line can legally marry withI out the consent of the Crown. J There are 2,750 languages and dialects, : and oue of theses—the. English—is now ' spoken by over a hundred millions of people. i " Northumbia" writes to us suggesting that these who lwil from Northumberland .-.'.nd Durham should form a society on tho ! lines of others existing in this City. ! The position is unchanged in regard to tiie fire in the Westport Company's mine at Milierton, but hopes are entertained that the outbreak will be soon brought nnder control. At the Fire Brigades' Conference at Auck- ' land yesterday the balance-sheet showed receipts £1,078, expenditure £497, leaving a credit of. £5Bl The excess of assets over liabilities is £483. ( ( Wm. Watts, teacher at the College Street . School at Palmerston North, was charged with assaulting a scholar, but the magisI trate dismissed the case, considering that the boy had not been unduly punished. j Mr A. C. Jonassen, of Ashburton, has ; this season landsd 512 trout, averaging . 4Jilb, from rivers in the Ashburton County. The heaviest fish weighed 171b. Last year Mr Jonaseen's catch weighed over one ton.