BREVITIES.
—.» Salmon and goldfish never sleep. A pound of wool makes a yard of cloth. The average depth of the ocean is 12.000 feet. Captain Cook sighted the Australian coast April 19, 1770. British ships and cargo lost every year are worth £7,000,UU0. The Queen of Denmark is the tallest Royal lady in Europe. France has three-fifths of an acre of forest to each inhabitant. One couple in a thousand live to celebrate their golden wedding. In Mahomedan countries women are not admitted beyond the doorways of mosques. Out of the 10,000 postmen in London, the number earning £2 a week does not reach 100. The average daily attendance at the Carnegie Public Library for the week ended Saturday was 572 persons. There were 128 patients in the Dunedin Hospital on Saturday. Three deaths' occurred in the institution last week. The value of the exports from the Dominion for the vear ended March 31 amounted to £15,346,633, compared with £16.603,280 for the previous twelve months. Southland Trades Council passed a resolution protesting against the portfolio of Justice being held by a member of the Upper House, being of opinion that the control of the Justice and Police Departments should be in the hands of a man elected by the people.
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Evening Star, Issue 14037, 19 April 1909, Page 8
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210BREVITIES. Evening Star, Issue 14037, 19 April 1909, Page 8
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