BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 14307, 4 March 1910, Page 8

BREVITIES

.Moscow h;:s'started a farthing daily newspaper. field was discovered at the Lir.diis on March 4. 1851. In one year 70X00 toos of sugar are used by British brov/erirs. Twenty million acres in India arc irrigated by Government canals. Masks tiro still in use among savage nations to scare away demons. Sixty persons peri.-ihwl in the avalanche at Everett, Washington, U.S..A. Since 1815 London has spent _ over six and a-half million sterling on bridges. Lord Minto. Viceroy of India, has ridden five times in th* Grand National. Before it produces bark of commercial value a cork tree must bo fiftv vears old. The value of tho trade of the British Empire is more than £1.600.000,000 a year. Charles Adams, a gold-brick rogue, has beou iiMitencod to four and a-half years' imprisonment in Kueland. A five-stnrey building in York street, Sydney, occupied chiefly as offices, was dost roved hv fire last night. The Zeppelin 111. has two 150 h.p. motors, the working of which costs in petrol and oil £1 10s an hour. The annual conference of the Otago branch of the- Now Zealand Farmers' Union will be held on Friday, May 6. In order to give London policemen a weeddv day of rest. 1,500 extra recruits will be required at a cost of £150,000 a

yea r. Lord Roberta lias .been four times Commander-in-Chief, has twire_ had _ his horse shot under him. and in 1858 gained the. V.C. There are no fewer than 4,000 wome-n "postmen" in Great Britain. They are chiefly employed in the rural districts of Wale*, Scotland, and Ireland. Roforenco was made at the Methodist Conference (Sydney) to tho possibility of Mohammedanism spreading in Fiji owing to the importation cf coolie, labor. Difficulty is being experienced in getting vessels to carry coal- from the West Coast ports. The mine* are being severely handicapped by the lack of shipping facilities. The. Otago Provincial Council of the Farmers' Union yesterday passed a resolution requesting the- Minister of Railways to reconsider the nutation of tho penalty on overweight, sack''.. The Government will pay a bonus of 4d per pound on the production- of 100.000 pounds' weight of good marketable retorted quicksilver, free from impurities, from any mine in New Zealand. X<i trace- rui.s been found of Laurent, the Mexican- who is suspected'.of having attempted So blow iip tho Upokohgaro Hotel-at, Wnngarini. ' He is supposed to havfeommitte-d suicide by drowning. .\ deputation waited on tho Hon. R. M:Ketr/.io at Wellington and urged that the furniture for the new Government House- should be manufactured locally. The Minister said that exce-pt for three rooms .out-of tho seventy then* was no intention of ordering furniture abroad. Tenders would bo invited in the four centres.