BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 15343, 18 November 1913, Page 8

BREVITIES

Duke, of Wellington buried at St. Paul's November 18.. 1852. The first Legislative Council in New Zealand met on November 18, 1848. The mail despatched from Dunedin via Wellington and Naples on October 10 arrived in London on the 15th inst. __T'he parents of a Philadelphia boy of 15, who is 6ft Tin in height, gave their consent to the removal of a gland at the back of the main in order to stop the boy's abnormal growth. No fewer than eight municipal connci '.-., mostly in small villages, in different parts of France, have been dissolved by the central Government owing to deadlocks, due to partisan disagreements. At Sutton Bridge a team of men wearing hobble skirts, batting with broomsticks, and bowling left-handed played a cricket match with a team of women, who beat them on a double innings by 136 to 105. It is reported at the Imperial Treasury in, Berlin that the total contributions of the Princes of the Imperial German Confederation towards the special tax levied under the new military law amounts to £1,250,000. Southwark Guardians are to have the present horse-drawn ambulances of the workhouse infirmaries entirely superseded by motor-propelled vehicles, 'by which it is estimated that an annual saving of £l2O will be effected. At Toulon, during a- thunderstorm, lightning struck the School of Explosives, and caused great damage to the electrical plant. A workman who was asleep on the premises was thrown out of his bed by the shock, and badly injured. Bound for the fox farms in Eastern Canada, 126 cub foxes, valued at £20,000, recently arrived in Vancouver on a Cana-dian-Pacific railway steamer from Skagway, Alaska, One 'pair of black foxes will be worth £2,000 when full grown.