BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 14514, 4 November 1910, Page 8

BREVITIES

Mendelssohn died November 4. 1847. South African cricket tour begins at Adelaide. The ttrrbine system was invented on the 4th of November. 1894.

Dr Henry and Mr I'otts have concluded a successful mission at Wanganui. Gernumy turns out more ti. s eiic paper than any other country in the world. "It is universally admitted that Wales is a land of melody."—Coimtees Diindonald. The arrivals in the Dominion during September numbered 2,591, and the dcpartixree 2,259. "Americans <j.o much, more to tho theatre thaji we do. With them if is a habit."— Mr Forbes Robertson.

"Next to a baby, a is the most beautiful in "the vioiUl."—Mr Arthur ■Wright, at Ibcarbormi^li. "We still measure a ni:uiVs respectability by the condition and value of his clothes." —Mr Arthur Spooner. at Wi.lnee. "Tho day may not l>e. far distant when •wo shall have men-o'-wai\ and merchant ships as well, without boilens and without stokers,'—Mr J. H. Uallett. A committee* of the Auckland City Council have been asked to report on tho advisability of introducing the daylightsaving system to the municipal offices The personal estate of the late Mr George Roberts, of Whitelee. Selkirk (Scotland), and brother of Mr John Roberts of this City, was sworn for probate purposes at £152.736. Sam Thompson, a famous International centre- for ward, who led the Preston North End forwards in their palmy days, has received the Royal Humane Society's certificate for saving boys from drowning. A pure white sparrow has been caught at Blennerhasset, Cumberland, and the body of a white swallow, apparently killed by coining in contact with a telephone wire, has been found at Workingion.

Trained to visit houses and to bleat till somebody opened the door, a lamb, belonging to the Marquees of Downshire, collected £6 x<is 6d in bags hung on its body in aid of the Royal Rcrkshire Hospital. The first of the new postage stamps may not be issued until next year, and will be issued gradually as the old ones get exhausted, for considerable numocrs of stamps of King Edward's reign still re> main in stock.

Tie discovery of the almost perfect skeleton of a man in the River Avon, on the borders of Leicestershire, has caused considerable sensation in the neighborhood. The right hand appears to have been cot off at the wrist.

Tie, famous floating batteries with which Gibraltar was attacked in 1782, were the scheme of D'Arcon, a French engineer. There were ten of them, and they resisted the heaviest shells and 32-pound ehot, but -ultimately yielded to ■edict «bot.