BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 14636, 4 August 1911, Page 10

BREVITIES.

Wellington proclaimed a municipality on August 4, 1842. Dr Thacker will not contest the Christchurch North vacancy. Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto elected Tope Pius X on August 4, 1905. Lake Victoria. Xyanza was discovered on the 4th of August, 1858. There arrived in. New Zealand during June 1,974 persons. The departures numbered 3,276. The mail despatched from Dunedin via Sail Francisco on June 29, arrived in don on August 2. It is intended to take a poll at Invercargill on the proposal to i\ii?o £98.000 for .an instalment of the gravitation water supply. Of 1131 aliens naturalised in Britain Inst year, 390 were Russian* and 347 Germans; while of the whole total 408 sett ltd in London." The total area under wheat, in Australia this eeason will be 7,307,000 acres, an increase of more than half a million acres on last year's area-. A septuagenarian widow named Bertin, of Paris, was so distressed on hearing the story of a starving family that she shot herself and left them the whole of her money—£so. Alexander Wilder, who was fined £lO and costs at Christchurch for having printed a rare card containing betting information, intends to appeal against the magistrate's decision. A further supply of Siberian dogs is to be imported for Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition. The mules have been selected in India and wiU be brought to New Zealand by the Aparima.