BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 14186, 11 October 1909, Page 8

BREVITIES

Battle of Camperdown October 11. 1797. Last year Great Britain spent £5.270 upon experiments in aerial navigation. i-hc Bnidford (England) Corporation allow blind people to travel free on their trams. * n , United States alone there are 370 inventors who hold patents on aeroplanes. Nearly ten million pounds sterling worth of fish is landed in a single year in Great Britain. The first appointment of Maori chiefs as members ef the Legislative Council was made on October 11, 1872. Three deaths occurred in the Dunedin Hospital last week. There were 147 patients in the institution on Saturday. A fine mosaic picture, the "largest specimen of Roman work hitherto found, is reported to have been unearthed at Aquiieia letria, near Trieste. The, rector of London Hills, Essex (England). has forbidden the placing of artificial flowers or glass domes on the graves in tlie parish churouya’xl. Durham Cathedral is having hot water heating substituted far coke stoves, and electric light is being placed in the bel! tower instead of candles. A grocer at Haywards Heath (England) has collected 110.000 pottage stamps, and utilised the whole of his spare time for nine years in the task. At Dudley (England) a collier, his wife, and four children were recently attacked by ptomaine poisoning on account of eating boiled towl and beef which had been twice cooked. At Auckland the National Defence League are circulating a petition for presentation to Parliament urging legislators to take steps to provide for universal compulsory training. A bigger chest measurement- is now required of all room its desirous of joining the Royal Horse Artillery, Roval Garrison Artillery, and the Infantry of the Line. One-and-a-half inches has been added. It is probable that the Commonwealth will be well represented at the naval and

militaay sport® to be beSd at Pahneastba North next month, member® of the roiKtary forces of the vcrioos States having bear given permission to attend. Mr Keir Hardie, M.P., prophesies that at the next General Election' between TO and 100 Labor members will be returned to the Home of Commons. Already fifteen T.iberal members have undertaken to join the Labor • corner. ”