BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 15074, 4 January 1913, Page 12

BREVITIES.

Dr Jameson's famous raid took dace on January 4, 1396. On dit that the new management of the New Zealand Times' lias decided to discontinue tho Political-Labor column edited by .Mr Walter T. Mills. Chloroform, the great anesthetic, «as discovered by Guthrie in 1831, and was first employed in surgical operations in 1847. The steamer Waikare was wrecked at Dusky Sound on January 4, 1910. By an Act signed by 24 Powers, the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague was established in 1899. Henry Style, who has just died at Windsor, at the age of 80 years, had spent more than half Ins life cauying letters, during which time he walked" 218.504 miles. In.France 21.24 per rent, of the population are employed in agricultural pursuits; in the United Kingdom the percentage is 5.58. Preceding all secular peers except the Lord High Chancellor, the Archbishop of York ranks as the third peer in the United Kingdom. Incorporated building societies in the United Kingdom exceed 1,700, while there are 52 unincorporated in England and Wales. Yew-trees live to an age of 400 or SCO years. The red berries of the yew are not poisonous, as is commonly supposed., ■but the seeds are very poisonous. Founded in 1774, the London Fire Brigade, which by an Act of 1888 is under the control of the L.C.C., consists of 1,565 officers and men. It is estimated that the Insurance Act will cost the London- and North-Western railway a year, the Great. Central £20,000, the North-Eastem £40,000. and the Great- Western £60,000. Over 200 cases of ptomaine poisoning were reported at Wangamii. All are supposed to be due to eating ice creams.