BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 14496, 22 February 1911, Page 8

BREVITIES

tleorgo Washington bora February 22, 1732. Sir George Bowen died February 22, 1899, and Bishop Leaihan on February 22. 1910. The Auckland Diocesan Synod are considering the matter oi appointing a successor to Bishop Neligan. The homestead of Lauder Fiat Station, 'lie property of Mr Hinckson Mot, dcitroyed by fire. Fo insurance. A poll taken at Blenheim yesterday saao{oned £1,500 being borrowed for extendig the gas mama of the borough. A French veteran, who performed n gal- !' mt deed of rescue at Sedan, has just brcri ecorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor. About £47,000 has now been received at the Mansion House towards tho fund for providing a memorial in London of King Edward. The battleship Irresistible, which hue wpent all the present year in dry dork at Chatham undergoing an £SJ,SBS rent. !e now ready. How to be a good mother is the new subject taught at a •Scarborough school, with the aid of a trained nurse sad a real baby thirteen weeks old. The third battalion of the Coldstream Guards, which has now been more than four years in Egypt, is expected to arrive Homo about March 25. The annual returns of tho Liverpool tramways constitute a record, both in regard to the receipts and the number of passengers carried during 1910. Wellington Harbor Board last night deckled to grant their chairman an honorarium of £2OO pet annum. Mr Fletcher, however, said he had not made up his mind whether he would accept payment. An Italian has invented an automatic ballot box. Tho machine registers the total number of voters, and tho figures for and against. All tho voter has to do k to drop a disc into the slot corresponding to his deciftion. In Vermont (U.S.) tho bold experiment haa been successfully tried of allowing prisoners to go outside the gaol alone. Eleven prisoners recently visited a circus. Fifteen minutes after the show was over every toon was back in prison.