BREVITIES.

Northland Age, Volume VIII, Issue 10, 27 October 1911, Page 4

BREVITIES.

Returns for the Mangonui County election not yet received. The Anglican Dioceian Synod commenced last Thursday. Meisra. Matthawa and Matthewe* naxt sale on sand November. Mr. Vernon Reed, M.P., left Wellington last Saturday for the North. Meeting of the Hoapital aDd Charitable Aid Board at Kawakawa to-day. Dr. Gilpin (late of Kaeo) died suddenly at Dargaville this week. The gentlemen of Mangonui are giving a ball on Friday, 17th November. A shark nearly 9 ft. long waa caught on Tuesday off the wharf by Mr Dacre. The war between Italy and Turkey still drags on, but not much authentic news is to hand. « Mrs. Berghan, of the Mengonui Hotel, left for Auckland yesterday. What is the meaning of it ? A terrible boating accident occurred it Te Wharangi, near Foxton Heads, on Sunday morning by which seven persona loit their lives. About the time a man begina to flatter himaelf that he knows something he becomes the father of a small boy with a proclivity for asking queitions. Mr. Reginald McKenna and Mr Winston Churchill have exchanged portfolios in the British Cabinet, Mr. McKenna becoming Home Secretary and Mr. Churchill First Lord of the Admiralty. How to Remove Warts.—Whenever you eat an apple cut off a piece, rub it on the warts so that the juice gete on them, and let it dry on. This will be found better than application ef caustic or strong acid, the wartl dwindling away like magic. An amendment to the Railway! Amendment Bill, brought down on luesday by Governor’i message, pro. vides for the increase ot wages paid to employees in the Railway Department’s second division. This meant a total increase of ,£106,000.

A most successiul concert was held in Kawakawa last week. The proceeds are to be devoted to the Maternity Home there. We hear that the estimated cost ot the Mangonui Hoi- * pital’i new ward is £l5O, so don’t let u» be behind Kawakawa in railing money. , •

A sow belonging to Mr. W. Wright Mataura, has a good record to her credit, besides having returned her owner a substantial profit. She hae

had three litters, the first time giving birth to 12 young ones, the second lot numbering 15, and the third litter 17. On each occasion she reared 11 of her family which brought in g return of over £6O. It is impossible at present to accurately ascertain the seriousness and extent of the revolt in China. The latest news is that there has been a battle in the neighbourhood of Han- * kow in which 2000 ot the Imperial troops were engaged with 10,000 rcbtli. Conflicting accounti are to hand, one being that the reboli were repulsed with heavy loss, and in the other the rebels claim the victory. Nearly sixty million pins are made etch day in England. Some twenty odd million are manufactured in France, and other countries produce ten million and upwards each day This enormous output has been going on regularly lor years; but what becomes of the pins ? They do not wear out; they do not dissolve in the air • there is no way of destroying them! It is indeed an interesting problem to discover what becomes of them/