BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 14635, 3 August 1911, Page 10

BREVITIES.

Arkwright, the famous inventor, died August 3, 1792. The Appeal Court reserved judgment in the MewJiinney < ase. There are considerably o\ er 1,100 flying pigeon clubs in England. The North Island Mail TiunV. If a.! way was linked up on August 3, 1908. A telegrapn office and telephone bureau has been opened at Green Island. No organa of the human body get sooner overtaxed than the heart and lungs. William ‘Webb boat C. Towns for the sculling championship of the world on August 3, 1907. Ireland produces in prep n-ioti t i its Imputation by far the greatest number of centenarians in the Br.tisa Idi?... One result of the extension of wireless telegraphy (says Mr Marconi) is that busy people can no longer find quiet on board ship. Owing to labor disputes in the United Kingdom during the past year, workmen lost time amounting iu all to 9.722,&0 C days. At an intjuest held at Stepney- a woman, aged 42, informed the coroner that she had had 22 children, but only six were now living. The Lyttelton Harbor Board j«tcd a resolution expressing their deep regret ar the death of Mr T. E. Taylor, v.!.,> was a member of the board." A Tavlor memorial fund has been opened in T'ir.iam. At Wellington yesterday Patrick 'James Murphy was committed for trial on-the charge of offering to accept a bribe of £2CO lor abstaining from bidding as an intending purchaser at a Crown lands =;>ia m the Raketapauma block.