BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 14634, 2 August 1911, Page 12

BREVITIES.

Will is m Rufu? was killed, in the New Ferret Aldus', 2 1100. The Melbourne. Centennial Exhibition •j-a.i opened on July 2. 1888. The mail despatched from Dunedin vi;i ■Naples on Juno 22 arrived in Ijondon on the'afternoon of July 30. The Royal Photographic Society want to stop the pickins of wild flower?. Is there "anything" that somebtKiy or other doesn't want to stop? A still fiuther comment on the Gorman who calculates that there are 1,200.000,000.000 bees in the world : Doci this include tho ono in his bonnet? There is stilJ a debt of £5,000 on the Y.M.C.A. building at; Wellington. .The board are trying to obtain 60 sustaining members at five guineas each annually. Sponges are at la«t being recognised by naturalists as belonging to the animal kingdom. Naturalists aro either very; glow or not ih the habit of visiting places of refreshment. The first rase t<- ome before the .Chrietchurch Tramway Appeal Board was concluded yesterday. The appeal, by ,i. motormnn against his dismissal in regard to a head-on collision, was unsuccessful. The Auckland District Health Officer-re-port's :—/Th 9 fast, case; of plague in nn.r. was reported on May Bof this year, and the last discovery of a plague-infected rat w:is on May 31. No case of plague in man is now under treatment.*' -•-