BREVITIES
Pioval Aca lerov instituted December 10, 1768.'
The battle of Magersfontein was fought on December 11. 1899.
The New Zealand Parliamentary Build ings were burnt on December 11, 1.907.
There are still a few returns to come for Ihe Hospital Saturday collection. The total to date is £1.290'10* 4^l. Thunderstorms were experienced at Gisborne and Bedding yesterday, and there was a cyclonic disturbance at Pabuerston North. Little damage was done. In America motor ears are as thick as autumn leaves in Yallomhrnsa. It is estimated that in the States there is one automobile to every seventy persons.
!u the State of Minnesota. U.S.A.. the sale, of cigarettes is absolutely forbidden. There are a few sly cigarette-sellers, whose wares are said to be of the vilest rpiality. The dispute between the Mafaura Paper Mill Workers' Union and the New Zealand Paper Mills. Limited, has been settled in conference. .Mr J. B. Tiiggs, Con cilintion Commissioner, presided.
It is understood that the conference of representatives of municipal tramways, which has been sitting in Wellington, decided that the conditions differed so much in the cities that there was ltttlo likelihood of a Dominion award being established.
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Evening Star, Issue 14535, 10 December 1910, Page 14
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