BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 14574, 24 May 1911, Page 10

BREVITIES.

Empire Day. Transvaal invaded May 24. 1900. A settler of Pahiatna is said to have cleared £6OO from three acres of strawberries. It is estimated (says a Thames message) that (lie recent drives of kauri logs timber to the value of £60.000 reached the booms. A proposal has been made in the Thames district to arrange a gathering of Thames pioneers, similar to the Gabriel’s Gully jubilee. A schcmo for imposing a tine of £IOO or one year’s imprisonment for cheating in school examinations has just been approved bv the Florida 'State Convention. It is claimed that the capability of the mind can be tested by a machine which has been invented by Mr John Gray, the treasurer of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Judge Hamilton expressed the hope at Preston County Court that at his funeral his friends would walk. The amount of money spent on funerals, was perfectly ridiculous. A pianist in the United States has just been awarded the large amount of £0.600 as compensation for injuries received in a tramway car which diminished the flexibility of his fingers. Not a single vote was Registered at one polling station for the election of a member of the Edmonton Board of Guardians, although a presiding officer, two clerks, and four policemen spent all day there. A citv barber was declared by a man who was suing him in the City of London Court to earn £3 a week at least—3os a week wages and 30s in tips. The barber confessed to 24s wages and lips 12s a week. The Provincial Conference of the Farmers’ Union at Auckland - yesterday adopted remits from two branches of the Union recommending the tormation of a farmers’ political party in the Dominion Parliament to safeguard the interests of farmers.