BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 14632, 31 July 1911, Page 8

BREVITIES.

PaptT towels are the latest in. the wav of American economy. * ... An American paper has made the discovery that there are no terms of abuse in the Japanese language. Picture post cards are not a commodity, according to a London magistrate.' They are just a habit. ' | There were 144 patients in the Dun- j edin Hospital on Saturday. Three j deaths occurred in the institution last J week. , ~,,,.,.,■! The Wellington Industrial Exhibition has dosed. The attendance is estimated ! at about 17U,0(X), A substantial profit j is expected. I "I have several witnesses, and they are not like me ; they are ladies," was the modest remark of a woman at ) Highgato Police Court. I Mr Harry Lauder's intervention on I behalf of the colliery ponies shows that j his interest in the pit and stalls is not ! confined to the music halls. j " Lying in this Court is becoming an j accomplishment," remarked Mr C. C. I Kettle, S.M.. at Auckland: "people; come here and lie without turning a j hair." A lad who emigrated from Dover | Workhouse to Canada, and has sue- j ceoded there, has sent £2O to the ; guardians to fit out his sister and send ! her to him. . '-, The original legal document consti- ] tilting the British Army was sold at: Sotheby's for The document is signed four times bv Charles 11., and dated January 26. If.HO.

nel E. S. Heard," 1.G.5.), Adjutant and Quartermaster-general (Colonel A.. W. Robin, C.8.), Director of Ordnance (Lieu-tenant-colonel O. N. Johnston, R.A.). The shootine at next meeting will be mainly at service targets. The ordinary bull's-eye shooting will b© only at two.or three of the longer ranges.