BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 14554, 1 May 1911, Page 8

BREVITIES

Duke of Wellington born May 1, 1767. Spanish fleet destroved at Manila on Mav 1, 1898. David Livingstone died in Africa, Mav 1, 1873. Scotch and English Parliaments united May 1, 1707. Dunedin Hospital returns for last week: Admitted, 39 ; discharged, 38 ; deatlis, 5 ; remaining. 142. The census returns show the population in the Mackenzie Country to be 1.342. That in the Borough of Wainiate is 1,762, as against 1,637 in 1906. The Governor invites the Georges of New Zealand to contribute to the proposed Coronation gift to King George.' Subscriptions for Id to £5 will be accepted. Duelling is quite the fashion in Paris now. A Spanish writer and an Italian journalist crossed swords on the Big Wheel ground, the latter being wounded in the forearm. A doctor's wife, whoso husband secured fiom the Paris Court an order for the restitution of conjugal rights, will have to pay £4 for every day that she delays in obeying the order. When the Paris police searched (he attic of an old widow, who recently died from starvation, they found £1,600 in a box at the side of her bed. The old woman was seventy-eight years old. In connection with one cut of the Panama Canal, 5.000 tons of dynamite, 300 miles of fuse, 100 miles of connecting wire, and 600,000 blasting caps have been used in the course of one year. Saturday was observed as Plunket Saturday in Ashburton, and the members of the local branch of the Society for the Health of Women an<s Children collected just on £IOO in the streets in aid of the society's funds. Mr A. Rcsscr, of the Auckland Tramways Union, addressed a meeting of Burnside workers on Saturday night in the Trades Hall, his subject being "The Federation of Chemical Workers and Kindred Trades.' He stated that after a Dominion conference has been held there is every probability of such federation.