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BREVITIES

Lambert Simnel, an impostor, was crowned at Dublin May 2, 1487. He was eventually made a scullion in the King’s kitchen.

. A young man named Felix Fry, a resident of Motueka, has been missing since Friday, and there is reason to fear that he •Las been drowned in the Motueka River. Search for his body baa so far been unav riling. , , A Wellington message states that during April, which was the first month of the registration of youths for compulsory military training', 0,167 persons were enrolled oat of a total of about 16,000 liable to serve.

The Knyvett Defence Committee have been informed that the request for the court-martial at Auckland instead of Wellington cannot be acceded to, and that the expenses of a limited number of witnesses will be paid to and from Auckland. There has bden a series of petty thefts in Masterton since Saturday night, three chops having been broken into. Suspicion points to a boy who was fiimmoned on Saturday on a charge of the theft of a bicycle and who has since disappeared. A total of 7,845 passengers were ‘carried the Railway Department to resorts on the North fine during the thirty week-ends of the season, which began on October 1 arid coded last Saturday. This represents an increase of 924 passengers over those carried during the corresponding period of last year, equal to £B6. The menu of a wedding feast in a small Hungarian village is reported from Vienna. The wedding rejoicing started on a Monday afternoon, and lasted until the Thursday night. There were 1,400 guests, and they consumed an ox roasted whole, eight calves, six lambs, 650 geese, 425 turkeys, 1,200 chickens, 60 pigeons, 3,400 loaves, 400 tins of biscuits, 2cwt of rice, 1.320 gal of wine, and 100 barrels of beer. Five foods played daring the entertainment.

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Evening Star, Issue 14555, 2 May 1911, Page 7

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BREVITIES Evening Star, Issue 14555, 2 May 1911, Page 7

BREVITIES Evening Star, Issue 14555, 2 May 1911, Page 7

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