BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 14525, 29 November 1910, Page 8

BREVITIES

•l • . » Education Act (free and compulsory) passed November 29, 1877. Katevitch's store at Kaiwaka (Auckland) was destroyed by fire. Insurances: Building £75 and stock-£250, in the Commercial Union Office. Thb Scotsman is the, best taxpayer. As a rule nearly 60 per cent, pay their income tax before the end of January, while in England 35 per cent, is about the average. The color of French official books (equivalent to our English Blue Books) is yellow ; Spain, red ; Germany, white : Italy, green; Portugal, white; and Austria, red. A man who had his heart stitched up at a hospital at Schaerding, Austria, seven weeks after he had been stabbed, has, it is stated, left the hospital in excellent health. Two young Isle of Wight amateur swimmers,. Messrs Arthur Wood and Henry Castle) recently swam across the Solent. Castle's time was 2h4min, and Wood's-6min longer. At one season of the year the tennis players in the Shetland Isles take advantage of the peculiar light known as " simmer dim " to engage in one or two midnight tennis parties.