BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 15373, 23 December 1913, Page 8

BREVITIES

Richaid Arkwii-ht loin [)'c»inber 23 17.%.

Lord Ro'iH'tt.- s-itiod for South Africa on the 2ord December. 1390. The (R.kitika. .Mumcioal Baths vocre opened vc.teiday.

A Waiiak! Iliudi School -did R.oys' A,ssciatieii has i'lmi foimcd. Fifteen vi.e-pre-id<'iit.-,, who aie living in various paits of the Dominion, have been appointed. ■\ line <lay wa- oxi'i-t iencod at .Middlemaul! vcste'-.lay, with a strong drying Mind. The riv.r iv,i, lalliug -teadily". The second contingent ot farm boys will embark from L hkloii on the Sult'olk." which. is due at Auckland towards the end of Eohruarv.

The Kngli.-h mail which was despatched fioiu Duuedin via Wellint'tou and San Francisco on the, 12th November arrived in London on the 13th inst.

The otlirial history if the Russo-Japanese Wat has only cost." so tar. about £6.000; but then it is nit neatly completed. The Americans spent £303.000 in illustrating and printing their ulticial history of the great Civil War of 1861-65.

Played by Handel when lie was organist to the Dvke ut Ohandos from 1718172]. the oru*;in ol' St. Lawrence. 'Whitchurch. Little i-ilanmoie. Middlesex, has been rebuilt arid again used. 'Che original case, carved by Grinling Gibbons in 1714, is sti!! in position. The Kaiser owns 90 estates and ensiles, which province ;■!• ai una I income nf about £650,000. His civ.il list is in round figures half a million sterling, while, a further cxiceptikwial capital sunt of Crown trust money. ;>mounting to nearly £900,000, is a!?o at bis disposal. At the Mid-Kent Revision. Court a, young man claimed as a lodger in respect of a bedroom which lie. occupied in Loose Parish. The revising barrister stated that when the man was a<decr> his feet were in Maidstone Parish and. his head in Loose Parish. The vote was allowed.