BREVITIES.
The Tauranga water supply feheme ha» been completer!, at a cost of £12,000. The ’Gazette’ issued last night contains a. barmaids’ register with 801 names entered thereon. Over 200 young men eligible for military training have been examined in the Milton district. Tour only railed to pass the test. The road scheme propounded by the late Mayor of Christchurch (Mr Taylor) was rejected at tho poll by a two-to-one majority. For the obsolete cruiser Retribution, built in 1389 at a cost of £186.000, the sum of £5,600 woe recently realised by auction at Portsmouth, Ex-inspector Simpson, of Liverpool, aged 70, rescued Richard Lewis, who is over 80. from drowning in the Shropshire Union Canal, near Ellesmere Port. Maria Krissoff. of Vilna. Russia, is petitioning for a divorce because her hu.sbu.nd shot off her high heels as she was walking in their garden one morning. A Calthorpo 16-20 horse-power motorcar conveying a party of visitors to the North Egmont Mountain House was totally destroyed by fire on Wednesday evening, owing to the engine becoming overheated 1 by the long pull on the low gear. Xo one, was injured.
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Evening Star, Issue 14630, 28 July 1911, Page 10
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188BREVITIES. Evening Star, Issue 14630, 28 July 1911, Page 10
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