BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 14534, 9 December 1910, Page 8

BREVITIES

Ta.ouan discovered Now Zealand Deccul.r 9, 1642. Toe CanterbuiY Automobile Association, a iter <!',<w;i:vii]g the Wood landa faUUity, reM;\\d to recommend their' Committee to communicate with the Railway Department i,. ascertain if it is possible to pbice electric alarms at railway crossings, as is dono in other countries. The chess tournament this year will be htld at Timara, and will commence on I'oxfiig Day. <!,.oll rairui have fallen in Central Otago. The dispute at Wellington between James A. Hannah and Charles Nudinc, which has occupied the attention of the. Supreme Court on many occasions, has lieon nettled, and Mr Nodine, who has been in prison for about two mouths, has been released. The valuo of the* principal products which passed through, tho Customs for export for • tho month, of November was £1,041,183, compared with $1,070,461 for the corresponding month o£ last year. A movement is on foot at Pahncrston North, to raise £3,000 for procuring vadium for the cure of cancer and skin diseases. Thin would carry a Government subsidy of £ for £, making £6,000 available. Dr Hogg analysed samples of air obtained at the bottom of this welkvtMyro.-s BusbMn which Robert Henderson lest his life, and found it impregnated with carbonic acid gas. What ia claimed to be the largest living kanri tree in New Zealand is growing in all its majestio splendor at I'liriri. near iThameß. lb has a girth of 40ft, or is 'roughly 13ft in diameter. For blowing his horn negligently, and frightening a horeo, which caused two iadies to be thrown out of a trap, one being injured internally, a motorist at Ormoudvilie was ordered to pay £IOO damages. Delegates representing tramway undertakings throughout New Zealand met in conference at Wellington yesterday to coneider the tramway employee*' demand for a Dominion, award. Tho proceedings are in private. The Government have decided to make an annual payment of £250 towards the judges' law library recently established in .Wellington, by the law societies throughput the Dominion. The ]Minisber of Public Works will advertise within a few days in New Zealand only for an electrical engineer tor the water-power schemo at a salary of £BOO per annum. New Zealand architects will shortly be. invited to submit competitive designs for tho new Parliament Buildings. Probably a premium of £2,000 will be paid to ihe architect whose placis are accepted. Wauganui Methodist Synod resolved to request tho Conference to bring under the notice of the Uovermneut the inadequate representation of the Method'st Chinch iu ilie list of chaplains oi the Volunteer Ko'i ,M . .!:!im Mi icon w.it, born oa the 9th of De-i.-u.ivi. 1603.

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