BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 14185, 9 October 1909, Page 12

BREVITIES

toSr"l! r 'lß39 Limatllm W36 ddiverpd on Oc South WaJes Public Debt stand* at £90,307,419. stands • cliisces in aeronautical engineerttstir sM hy tbe Lond ° il A woman at Newcastk-on-Tyne who gave 1 .th to triplets has been awarded the Kings bounty of £3. Nearly all the honings caught at Scarbrough (Eng.) are bought for exportation to Russia and Germany. cnl H there , was one person for , of tbe population of the United Kingdom, and in 1801 one in 1,235. A child Isays Mr Andrew Lang) fears nothing more than a book about which injudicious eiders can ask it questions. -Ur John \\ arson Murray lias been for the twentieth tune elected Mayor of Swellendarn, Gape Colony—a unique record. Lp to 1857 a divorce could he obtained in England only bv Act of-Parliament, and then after sentence by an ecclesiastical court. Ihe biemish of American womanhood (.ays W. D. Howells) is their speech. They too frequently twang, whine, whiffle, and whinny : and they manage their voices carelessly and lazily. No railway passengers lost their lives in England last year owing- to accidents bv tiains on which they were travelling Tin's has occurred only once before since the csteolisanrent of the records. The annual income of the Foveaux fisheries fleet, whose season has just closed, in I* urnbpr? K wt down at £30,000 to £°5.000. About .1,0 men are constantly employed, and the earnings average £soo'a month.' Miss Helen Mathers, tho novelist- dedares that- if you put a man on his honor you may expect- the highest rule of conduct from him, and he will try to live up to your conception of what a-good, wholesome man should be. Iffie Auckland Anglican Synod opened yesterday. Bebop Neligan’e charge to the diocese dealt with the aims and objects of oigamsed capital and organised labor, and the relations of the Church thereto. TTti question 3S ° Sl> ° ke fnmkl y on the marriage , , a No-license meeting at Newton (Auckland) yesterday resolutions' were passed in favor of a bare-majoritv vote and Dominion Option vote, to be taken trienially, m addition to the Local Option vote. A motion was also carried condemning the granting of licenses in the King Country.