BREVITIES
John Ruskin died January ‘2O, 1900. Hongkong was taken possession of by Groat Britain on January 20, 1841. Burglars entered tho premises of Messrs Clark and Manifold, drapers, of Pahiatua, blew open a safe, and abstracted cash and cheques to the value of £l3O. The burglary was evidently the work of a skilled cracksman. At Wellington yesterday Ah Joe was fined £5 and costs for smoking opium, and Charlie Y’oung Sing £25 and costs for having opium in his possession. Railway fatalities caused the death of 365 persons in Now York State during the past three months. Great Britain spends about £14,000,000 on tobacco and pipes every year. The cost of a muddy day in London is something like £5,000. Cold tea and brown broad make the best diet for alpine climbers, said Mr Julian Grande, F.R.G.S., in a lecture at the Camera Club, London. Two models, mado of cheese, showing the interior and exterior of tho cathedral at Gouda, Holland, were sent to the Ghent Exhibition by a Dutch farmer.
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Evening Star, Issue 15395, 20 January 1914, Page 8
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172BREVITIES Evening Star, Issue 15395, 20 January 1914, Page 8
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