BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 14497, 24 February 1911, Page 8

BREVITIES

The last of the Imperial troops in New Zealand left Auckland on February 24, 1870. ri , . . . The longest span of telegraph wire m the world Is that over the river Kisthia, m India. It is over 6,000 ft long. Wc«tport Harbor Board decided to make an allowance of £2OO a year, irrespective of travelling allowance, to their chairman. A five-roomed building, owned and occupied by Mis Williams, confectioner, Alexandra," was destroyed by fire yesterday. A North Queensland clergyman states that his parish measures 45,000 square miles, and contains 250 miles of railway There are five rivers in the world which drain over a million square miles. They are the Amazon, La Plata, Obi, Congo, and Mississippi. The New Zealand Socialist party meet in conference in Dunedin in April. Tlvj question of appointing organisers will be considered. In the Kamyshin district of Russia a euitor has to buy his sweetheart from her father. A pretty girl of good family costs about £2O. Between 300 and 400 shoeblacks received a New Year gilt of 10s each on the premises of Messrs Day and Martin in tho Borough road. Between 9.45 and 11 o'clock on Christmas morning Canon Buckley married thirty-seven couples at St. Luke's Church, Canning Town. The applications lodged at the Timaru Post Orhco for the Canterbury runs number 235. The examination and ballot will be held at Timaru on Monday. Mr E. L. Canham, a wharf laborer and S member of the Waterside Workers' Union, will be a candidate for a seat on the Auckland Harbor Board. The union aie supporting his candidature. The Wellington Provincial Executive of the Farmers' Union are strongly of opinion that more boys should be brought to this Dominion as assisted immigrants. The meeting was held at Palmerston North yesterday, and was addressed by Mr Sedgwick.