HOME NEWS BREVITIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 9003, 27 January 1906, Page 3

HOME NEWS BREVITIES.

Mr David Williams, a farmer of Ammanford, S. Wales, who is still able to work on his farm, will shortly celebrate his 102 nd birthday. To mark the twenty-fifth year's service of their general servant a Brcntwood family recently entertained her friends, and presented her with a gold watch. The lifeboat stationed at North Deal 17 years ago has been replaced by the National Lifeboat Institution with a new selfrighting sailing boat, provided with two drop keels. Excessive smoking -oi inierior cigarettes, producing nicotine poisoning, was found by a coroner's jury to have caused the death of John Percy Metcalfe, aged sixteen, at Warthill, near York.

While/ a funeral procession was passing through Stratford, London, one of the horses attached to the hearse suddenly dropped dead, and the cortege was delayed until another animal was procured. After travelling to Engla-nd in a German liner and returning to Melbourne in a British ship, the Rev. Dt Bevan states that unless the British companies treat their passengers- with more consideration thti Germans will beat them off the sea.

Summoned for not sending her child to school, the wife of a laboreT at Bray stated that she had had twenty-seven children, of whom one had died and nine had married, so that she had to support- seventeen out of her husband's scanty •earnings. Three youths were sentenced to three months' hard labor each at Enfield for stealing 144 golf balls worth £12 from the Enfield Gold Club's pavilion. A magistrate said it was" monstrous that players should buy theee stolen balls, as he was informed they did, at 6d each.

The interesting cenotaph of Lord Nelson, which contains a lock of the famous Admiral's hair, and has a pyramidical canopy composed of the eighty-four guineas found in his possession at the time of his death, was 6old at Christie's for 350 guineas. At a sale of Napoleon relice at Messrs Sotheiby's Rooms, .the highest price paid was £72 for a snuff-box presented by the Emperor to the Qu-een of Naples. Mr Jacob Popp, the High Wycombe tradesman who holds a record in the matter of contravention of the Lord's Day Observance Act of Charles 11. mow has displayed in his shop window the notice : "208 summonses; finish fourth year." The largest goose club in the world is that organised by the Ragged School Union — this year r6r 6 comprises 7000 members. Each meanbei pays sixpence a week for thirteen weeks, and receives a fat goose, a Christmas pudding weighing 21b., and half a pound of tea. The following essay on "The Domestic Cat"' was written by a pupil ato ne of the -London County Counc-il'schools in the. East End :— "The cat is a squaresquadruped. and as is customary with square quadrupeds has its iout legs at ths corners. If you want to please this animal you must stroke it on the back. If it is very pleased it sets up its tail quite stiff like a ruler, so that your hand cannot get any further. ■ The cat is said to have .nine lives, but in- this country it seldom needs them all , because of the presence of Christianity." It is the American's firm conviction that in the British upper classes' yau find the biggest set of cranks on earth. — Sun, New York.

Who invented., the system of referring the problems of Government, to Royal Commissioners? s If Satan had ever been Prime Minister of England it would certainly be an invention of his. No surer method o5 putting off time could possibly be conceived. — Weekly Dispatch. It is vcTy difficult to say what laws regulate proposals — why some girls attract attention only, while ethers attract "attentions." There aro pretty and popular women to whom nobody 'proposes; tlier? axe pretty and popular women to there are plainer ones with whom every second man finds himself contemplating marriage. — Lady's realm.

Children have become the fashion. Itis the smart thing to sit at meat with them, to pay deferenco to their opinions, to encourage them in their ingenuous flippancies, laat is an improvement on the dreadful tyranny of our grandfathers and grandmothers ; but the whe:s has turned a little too far.— The World and His Wife.

Sixty Chinese have been arraigned before the Hongkong court, charged with gambling by betting on the results of cricket fights. Many thousands of people journey from Canton to &cc this local sport. " Th© crickets themselves are valued by their owners at enormous pricrs, a victorious insect fetching sometimes hundreds of dol'ars. — South China. Post, Hongkong. If there is one thing strikingly characteristic of this age, it is the mumber of people we know and the . few friends we possess. The time that us-.d to be tonsec rated to what Mr Henry James would call the Altar of Friendship is now squandered on a hundred indifferent acquaintances. Young ladies whom we hardly know invite us to th^ir weddings, and expert a showy present to place among the trophies of their marriage day. — The World.

The Lost decade has witnessed no more striking developm*-int in England than that of the young English girl who, thanks to her broader education and indulgence ia outdoor sports and games, is new become a veritable Diana. While still barely in her teens, she towers above her mother, and in passing along London streets one is again and again impressed by the number of tall vigorous girls who in point of physique* put their male contemporaries into the shade. — Times of India, Bombay.

Intellectually, Sir Henry CampbellBannernian is incomparably inferior to his two adversaries; but his good-natured "cominon-sensa" inspires fax less suspicion than Mr Chamberlain's incalculable originalities, and is much more comprehensible than the philosophic Mr Balfour's sciptical statesmanship. — Dagblad, Stockholm.

Twisting the lion's tail, which used to be 'such a popular pastime in this country, has gone pretty well out of fashion. There has been a practically general recognition of the fact that no two nations in the world should stand in closer relations than the United States and Great Britain, not only on account of ties of blood, language, and systems of jurisprudence, but because of mutual interests. — Gazette, Pitteburg.

Mr Fullalove — "Do you think your sister will be down soon, Willie?" Willie— "Yes. She said she was coming down as soon as she could, so as to have it over."

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