BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 14035, 16 April 1909, Page 8

BREVITIES.

First Maori Ml' elected on April*'l6, 1878. The Timber Commission "are sittmi? Greymouth. » From next Monday 'the cash bread in Dunedin mil be 7£d the 41b loat, lhe Go\emmen* offices tlnoughout New Zealand wilt Le closed on Pnda\ next (St George s Day). A petition has be<m lodged against lhe return of Henare Kaihau as M P. foi the Western Maori electorate. The Sta+e lobe woin b\ the Queen ot biam aoout once a veai is considered the most magnificent garment in the world. Mr R. Jopp's residence- at Riversdale was entered by burglars, and a large quantity ol jewellery, money, etc.. taken awav. A fox hunted by the Marquis of tfxeters hounds hid behind-.V wash-tub in a farmhouse, and afterwards ljumped. into a Of the world's asbestos supply nearly

nine-tenths is rained in Canada, the mine* about Quebec producing 60,000 tons per annum. Peterborough Cathedral'restoration fund, which was .started tv.entv five jears ago, and has just been closed, 'has reached over £50,000. > A syndicate is being formed in Auckland to establish a depot at the Campbell Is! mds for the purpose of hunting the right whale. Lieutenant-eolcnel Hume, who has just been retired from the position of Inspector of Prisons, is a candidate tor the Welling ton City Council. The farming community of Buckland {Auckland) are incensed at the failure of "trie Railway Department to supply sufficient trucks for the carnage of their produce. -The surveying, applied mechanics, hydraulics, assaying, and geology classes of the Otago School of Mines will in futurebe held at night for,'.the" convenience of men whose employment prevents their attendance Huring the day. $*