BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 15137, 19 March 1913, Page 8

BREVITIES

Lucknow was taken on March 19, 1858. The Forestry. Commission took evidence at Christchurch yesterday. A prize of £20,000, to be contributed to by all tue chief motor-car clubs in the world, is to be offered (says ' Excelsior') for a new motor-car fuel, rendered necessary by the rapidly-increasing price of petrol." A burglar who attempted to enter the railway booking office at Asnieres, France, through the window, became tightly wedged in the aperture, and had to cry for help. The police came, and, aiteV pulling him out by the ears, took him to the lock-up. The Tehana-Kaiwaka section of the North Auckland Railway was opened yesterday by the Hon. Mr Herries. The length of the section is about eight miles. Mrs M. A. Wade, "whose death took place recently at Horsford, Norfolk, had tor seven years—since her husband's death —acter as parish clerk. Her duties included tolling the 'bell at funerals. Stow (Suffolk) Guardians have appointed a rate collector for the thinly-populated parish of Finborough at a salary of £1 a year. This , was necessary, because the overseer declined to act. Banquets at which seaweed will be served in every conceivable style will be held by a society which has been formed at San Francisco to promote the use of seaweed as food. Antoine Dubois, a Paris chauffeur, on his first visit to the wine vaults at Beaune, was overcome by the fumes of the liquor. He fell into a vat containing 160 gal of burgundy, and drowned. \ v j ry war ° alloon llas a parachute attached, so that the aeronauts mav descend to! earth in case' of a collapse. The ancient Hebrews seem to have been ignorant of the domestic cat. It is not once mentioned in the Bible.