BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 14531, 6 December 1910, Page 8

BREVITIES

Battle of Cawnpore, December 0 18-57.

Bay Town Board last night decided to declare gorso a noxious weed in tlio district.

Railways use up over 2,000,4-14 tons of steel a year, almost half tho world's products. Tho new railway lino to Ravensbourno will be opened lor traffic on December 20.

It is tho practice in the best marching, armies abroad to have a halt of ten minutes in every hour.

Outside a Willesdon church is the. following notice: "Speaker for next Sunday: 'Wait and See.'" A woman, the first of her sex to do so, has ascended Mount Cook. She is an Australian visitor (Miss Dufaur).

The first university boat race rowed in outriggers was in tho year 1840, when Cambridge won by two lengths. Tho population of the British Empire is about equal to that of China, and more numerous than that of any other country. It is only four years ago since SantosDumont made the first officially recorded European flight for a disfapce of 12 yards. r

Hundreds of pounds' worth of jewels and heirlooms have disappeared from the Duko of Argyll's apartments in Kensington Palace, London. The Wailara Horticultural Society disqualified an exhibitor for life for ■"faking" blooms of pelargoniums and geraniums by piecing tho. petals of different blooms.

Napier Borough Council have purchased a site, in the heart of the town, on which to erect a municipal theatre. Tho price of tho land, which .is two acres and three-quarters iii extent, was £6,500. In tlje Court at Macraes on Friday Thomas Stanley (licensee of Stanley's HotelVahd Alexander M'Caskill (blacksmith) were each fined £1 and costs on a charge of committing a breach of the peace by fighting in the bar of the United Kingdom Hotel, Macraes Flat.