BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 14524, 28 November 1910, Page 8

BREVITIES

Uoslyn Sewerage BUI killed. Washington Irving died November 28, 1859. The women of New Zealand first exercised the franchise on the 28th of November, 1893. The population of New South Wales at the end of September is given as 1,678,208, an increase of 13,564. It is proposed to ask Lord Bra'ssey to accept the mayoralty of Hastings (England) during the Coronation year. There were 138 patients in tho Dunedin Hospital on Saturday. Two deaths occurred in tho institution last week. At the stranger's tea at tho 1 .M.UA. Rooms yesterday an address was delivered by Mr 11. Goff, recently a home missionary at the construction works on the Catlins Railway. Tlie Minister of Public Works announces that after the session closes an official inquiry will bo made regarding tho complaints of tho corporative workers on the Midland Railway at Cass. The Government offices throughout the Dominion will observe tho following holidays a.t Christmas and New Year :—Monday 'l'u<\sd.v>. aiid Wednesday, December 26, '27. and' 28; Monday and Tuesday, ■January 2 ;u:d 3. Mrs M'William, residing in ioomcbrkhv,, Countv Antrim, who celebrated her "hundred 'and eighth birthday laet month, received a cheque for £5 from Kins George, accompanied by lus Majesty's congratulations. All tho six sons of a Mr Moore, ot Belvedere, arc serving in the army. Air Mooro himself was for twenty-one vears in tho Roval Horse Artillery. On hip discharge-sheet ho is described as " Ix-st farrier in the army." . Si/..> for size, a thread of spider s silk i.-i decidedly tougher than one ol steel. An ordinary thread will bear a weight of throe- grains. This is about 50 "per cent, stronger than a steel thread of the same thickness. Although the brain is perpetually active vet tho whole of it is never at work- at onetime. The two hemispheres or halves do not operate simultaneously, hut alternate in action—now it is the one-half, then the other. " If the general election comes sooner than is expected the suffragettes shall be quite readv for it," declared Miss Dank-hurst, speaking at a meeting of the Womens' Social and Political Union at the Queen's Hall, London.