BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 14573, 23 May 1911, Page 8

BREVITIES.

First General Afsemblv. Auckland. Mnv 23. 1854. The mail despatched from Vuncdin vis Naples on 12th April ;irrivo:] in London on the Tooming of the 31st inst. According to a statement by the Secrotary foT War, 3,249 couimiesions have l>een granted in the British Army during tiie fast five years. The scholars an Willesden. London, are shortly to be provided with the opportunity for .studying booimaking and repairing in school. Comtesse De Villebreeene died in a Paris hospital as the result of being run over by a. motor car while she was on a round of visits to the poor. By amputating the tails of three generations of dogs the public prosecutor of Cohunbus, Ohio, ha 6 just succeeded in breeding a tailless dog. Aj new Anglican church is about to be erected in Masterton at an estimated cost of £6,000. Mr C. J. Mountford, of Christchurch, has been appointed the architect for the building. About one hundred applicants have been received from, barmaids In Wellington for regktratkm. under the new provision of the Licensing Act, and some fifteen have received certificates. A meeting of the .Scotsmen at Wellington last night decided to arrange a. deputation to the Minister of Defence protesting against the abolition of kilts in the uniform of the future defence forces. The Auckland winter exhibition was opened yesterday by the Hon. Thomas Mackenzie (Minister of Agriculture). The exhibition is the biggest of its kind yet held in Auckland, the catalogue showing over 780 entries in the competitive classes, whi'e over 300 industrial exhibits are made in the ■■MOiDpetitrve section.