BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 14964, 26 August 1912, Page 8

BREVITIES.

Battle of Crecy August 26, 1346. The first Cook Strait cable was laid on the 26th of August, 1866. Louis Philippe, ex-King of France, died August 26, 1850. Prince Albert (the Prince Consort) was born on August 26, 1819. Since 1900 a branch of the Rcval Naval Reserve has existed in Newfoundland. " Astronomer Royal" is the title of the official head of Greenwich Observatory. C'hristcharch and Dunedin were joined by rail on the 26th of August, 1878. * For the exclusive privilege of printing books patents were granted in the year 1591. As a result of the recent earthquake disturbances a volcanic island is rising in the Sea of Marmora. The Krakatoa eruption occurred on August 26, 1885. Thirty-five thousand lives were lost. At a meeting of the Miners' Union at Waihi the ofiioers were re-elected without opposition. There were 155 patients in the Dunedin Hospital on Saturday. Two deaths occurred in the institution last week. The New "Zealand Institute of Architects has been affiliated with the British Insti-tute-'of Architects. So many miners were imprisoned during a strike in 1810 that 300 of them had to be incarcerated in the stables of the Bishop of Durham. Miss Esther Mercy, of Chicago, is suing the Dean of the University of Chicago for £20,000 damages, because she was expelled from the student body of the University for "wearing a hat that cost £SO. Accurate statistics covering a number of years in a German State indicate that lightning strikes more frequently in marshy than in dry sections, and that the frequency of strokes increases as forests are cleared away. Coal-stealing was the fashionable crime of the moment in England during the etrike, and thoroughness was the note of a robbery in a village near Neweastle-on-Tyne. The village constable got in two loads one day, and the next morning found his coalplace empty, swept, and whitewashed.

A carnival is to be held at Naseby at Easter time to celebrate the jubilee of the discovery of gold in that district. In those days 2f£seby was known as the Hogburn.