TIT-BITS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 45, 4 February 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)

TIT-BITS.

Mendan* discovered the Solomon Islands in January, 1568.. , The first theatre in Sydney was formally opened on January 16, li~o.

Assisted immigration to New B<mth Wales began * \B3l, *ten Delation of the whole colony was < • •

It was on January 2G, 18C8, thata military rebellion broke out in >ew South Wales. and Major Johnston deposed Governor Bligh. * .

All the baeh.-lors of Mende.France■, luve received an appeal from the la' igue Against Dc P <> P u^ o " li>t of the names or 200 unmarried girls in th? town. e ,

A Stradivarius worth £2lOO has been purchased by a violinist at Strasburg, Germany, for 6s Bd. from a little boy who was dragging it about full of sand as a toy cart

On- of the most remarkable parliamentary elections ever fought was that at Knairesbcrough (Eng.) in 18.13, when three candidates received each an equal number of votes.

The first authentic record of gold discover* in Australia was on February 16. 1823, when Surveyor James MRr-nn found gold at Fish River, 18 n.iles from Bathurst, New South Wales.

Tfce same day that the First Fleet entered Port Jackson (January 26. 17TO) La Perouse, the famous French navigator, entered Botany Bay. He was iust too late to take possession for the # ,

The death has taken place at Deal of Rev. Stanley Treanor. author of • Heroes of the Goodwins.’’ ‘*lllo Log <rf a Sky Pilot.” etc., who frequently went out with the lifeboat to wrecks on the Goodwins.

Manuscripts of “Celt and Sa*°"’j Meredith’s posthumously published novel. “The Egoist.” and ‘One of Our Conquerors” have been deposited l»y his son and daughter at the British Museum, London, on loan.

WiDesden District Council has inctiurted its chief lady health visitor to give periodical lectures on the rearing j>nd nurture of children to mothers in a portion of the parish where the infantile mortality is abnormally high.

Whilst through England and Scotland school teachers everywhere are bewailing the fact that they cannot obtain appointments, in Saskatchewan, in Canada, many hundreds of schools ere closed during the summer for lack ef teachers.

Three hundred “undesirable” United States citiaens wishing to enter Canada* were turned back at Detroit during bat month. Canada has last year received one immigrant to every 2s> of her population.

Tasman diseove-ed the Friendly Islands in January, 1643. * *

On January 26, 1777. Captain Cook anchored at Adventure Bay, Tasmania.

It was In January, 1843. that a man nemed Henry O’Bnen first boiled down abeep for tallow in New South Wales.

The first erect German Antarctic expedition will start from Hamburg next April under the command of the explorer, Wilhelm Filchner.

The British Army officers showed up the best among the comnetitors at the Chicaeo Horse Show. They won five first, fire second, and fire third prizes. • • *■ •

A woman created a sensation recently in the streets of Bocholt, Germany, by wearing a hat which was the exact copy of a bird*® nest, with a large hen in it.

Colonel Vewellyn Wavell. who was cne of the first through the breach in the storming of Delhi during the Indian Mutiny, died, last month at Farnborough, Hampshire.

"Many games originated from ancient form of worship, human sacrifice, n arriage burial and other ceremonies’' said Dr. A. 0. Haddon at the Royal Sanitary Institute. London. "Leapfrog is common to almost every country, including New Guinea and Japan?’

An antique gold watch, lost 34 years ago, has been returned to a Belfast jeweller, with a note to the effect that it was found in the street and kept. but that the finder’s conscience had pricked him over since. The owner eannot bo traced now.

A good substitute for firewood is a brick soaked in kerosene. It should be laid in the kerosene for half an hour or more, and will burn with a clear, hot flame, which kindles coal as well as wood. When the oil is burned ont of the brick, it may be taken out and pat aside to cool, and then soaked again in the kerosene.

It was on Februarv 2. 1829, fhat Sturt efbeovered the Daring River.

Not rince 1701, until last year, has <me year witnessed two general elections in Great Britain.

Up to the year 18’2 British parliamentary candidates had to be nominated in public.

It- has been decreed bv the Prussian Minister ■ for Education that henceforth any public wheel-mist ress will on marriage relinquish her post.

“There i< scarcely a pauper nmon" the 37.fX)f> POO inhabitants of Java.”

•aid Mr. John Ferguson in a lecture at the Royal Colonial Institute, London.

An immense aerolite fell one night recently in a garden at Aubeterre, in ♦he Department of Charenfe. France, and sank for a considerable distance in the ground

On January 18. 1788. Governor Phillip, entered Botany Bar in the ship Snpplv. and •»>» the 2f>th «>f rhe same month the First Fleet anehorctl in Svdirev Core. The population then was It MO.

Mr. seal rathe- o.errm Its usual caution during his recent election cimnaign in America. A wellknown American, judge m suing him for ’Orel in ronnccticn with n speech he made »t Concord, tn which it is alleged !w» ojenly slandered tlie judge in question

At a meeeting of the shareholders of the famous so.jp makers A. ami F. Pears, the chairman stated that durwig his 45 years’ tenure of office th-s company had spent nearly £3 OfJO.GOO sterling on advertising. The old partnership commenced with a modest £7OOO. whereas now it is £1.050,000. or £330,000 profit on what it cost the tnaptav. Advertising has multiplied the bmmra a hundredfold.