BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 14523, 26 November 1910, Page 8

BREVITIES

Sir Hourv Havelock died November 26, 1857.

There have been 450 cricket, pit dies this season in the Jjoudon parks. Tim John AVickliffo and Philip Laing sailed for Otago November 27, 1847. There are 117 inmates in the Guildford Workhouse over seventy years of age. A lady’s maid in Devonshire has had bequeathed to her by her late mistress a sum of £3,000.

The New Zealand and South Sens Exhibition was opened at Dunedin on November 26, 1899. Tho Tainui, which arrived at Wellington from London to-day, had 196 assisted passengers on board. During a Sunday recently there were posted at the Brussels Exhibition 135,000 illustrated postcards. The Kaiser’s sailor son, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, is to be sent upon a prolonged visit to South America. Twenty-eight species of flowering plants and ferns have been discovered on a piece of waste land in London. On tho line between. Speyer and Heidelberg (Germany) a signal box is controlled by an old woman of oighty-six. The price of timber in Wellington has risen Is Od per 100 ft during tho last six weeks, and is still on tho up grade. At Stratford yesterday a man who was charged with following a woman and using obscene language to her was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment without the option of a fine. Taiori County Council resolved to accept the offer of the Public Works Department to undertake the construction of the Taieri Month bridge,# and a deputation was appointed to wait on the Bruce County Council in regard to the matter, so that a final settlement might bo made.