BREVITIES.
Hugh Miller died December 24, 1856. • Thackeray died on the 24th of December, 1862. William the Conqueror was crowned on' December 25, 1066. Blackbirds and starlings are playing havoc with the small fruits in Masterton. The Dunedin electric tramcars have been running for nine years. They were officially opened on December 24," 1905. An almost perfect skeletons of a moa 10ft high was unearthed near Motueka last week. The tuberculin test is to be applied to the cows of the Palmerston Hospital herd as a safeguard against tuberculosis, The Senate of Melbourne University have discarded Greek from the examination for the B.A. degree. Last week a Christchurch firm of solicitors received a letter from a client, who forwarded payment for a property he Jiad bought, He sent over 20 £SO notes in an ordinary envelope, the letter being unregistered. A four-story hotel for horses, "provided with . the latest modern requirements," has been constructed by the sanitary department of the city of Charlottenburg, Germany. The hotel accommodates 2,000 horses. . Out. of the 60 million odd inhabitants of Germany 19 million support themselves by agriculture. _.. ...-.__ ......
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Evening Star, Issue 15066, 24 December 1912, Page 6
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184BREVITIES. Evening Star, Issue 15066, 24 December 1912, Page 6
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