BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 14117, 21 July 1909, Page 3

BREVITIES.

Robert Burns died July 21. 1796. 'The Tongariro, due at Wellington next week, as bringing 215 passengers to the Dominion. J. here are seventv-four assisted immigrants on Iward.

At Market Rasen. Lincolnshire, rccentlv. a gentleman who had become a magistrate had before him in court an old schoolmate vno had become a tramp. At Falmouth there lives a blind man who. by the sound of the contact of hiloard balls, can tell the diameter of the shot and the run of the balls.

An bnglis-hman, calling himself Princa John Rex de Ouelph, and claiming kinship to the Xing of England, is making a tour of the Lnited States of America. Mothers" Day in America, a movement only inaugurated a year ago. was celebrated this year by 50,000.000 people wearing the white carnation on May 9. A boy at Acton, near London, explained his possession of 10s by saying he earned it by holding children outside publichouses whilst the motben* went in. At Auckland yesterday ChaTies Giddes, an old man. for forgery and uttering, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, and declared a habitual criminal. There exists in Le Mans. France, a hatmakers trade union with only one member who combines the positions of president! vice-president, treasurer, and secretary. Halter Copley, thirty-six years old, of barns ev, (bed from injuries he indicted on himself in an effort to pull one of his own teeth, H© tore away part of his tongue ;*nd injured hw jaw. Moinington Borough Council, at a special meeting last night, agreed to increa&e tlte number of lights in certain streets, and the details were referred to the Works Committee, with power to act. Palinerston North A. and P. Society resolved to ask the Govcnunent to grant a subsidy to enable different breeds of stock Jo make proper exhibits at the international show to be held at Bueno6 Ayres. At an informal meeting of members of the higher grades in the Wellington police the opinion was expressed that members of the Force should act with discretion, in order not to prejudice the inquiry nor tho, status of the Force in its relation thereto.