BREVITIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11056, 23 August 1907, Page 4

BREVITIES.

The King's horses, last year won only £2783. Harvest prospects- m Scotland are gloomy, m the extreme. Tlie 'agitation m Bengal is again described as very Serious. The cleansing ; of the city costs the Sydney City Council . about £35,000 a year, A man, Bill Robb, aged 80 years, has had both legs broken at Hillgrove, N.S.W. by a- Chinese battering liim with a gunIt is reported that 500 persons were burned to death m a theatre* fire at Somkong, a suburb) of Canton. ..-..'. Johannesburg' is excited over continued dynamite outrages 'oivthe Rand. The British, Prime Minister says that the want of thought is the great drawback and danger of our age. Mrs. Maher Avas seriously injured through the blowing down of lier liouse at Sawyer's Point, near Raymond Terrace, Sydney; during a- heavy gale. ' John Torrens died at New York (W. A.) at the age of 103. He enjoyed good health till within a short time of his death- .-, A strike of 37 years' duration recently ended m Gernianv by a. 6trbng coiripany capitulating to the . Cutlers' Trade Union. Recent callers at Agency General Loij-; don: Mn W. Adair, Mr. H. J. Reed, Mrs. and Miss Reed, Gisborne: According to a London paper, the estate of the late Sir Walter Bulfer, of Newc Zealand, has' been. sworn at £150,678 for probate" duty. -'.".' ■-".'"-." -\7: It is contemplated to build up a great library m the Federal Parliamentary building on the, lines of the ' Library c-f Congress at Washington. " - 7 '77 A IGoiilbum (NiS.W.) wool authority has figured that owing to adverse weather there will be a loss of 66,0001 bof wool on 44,000,000 sheep this season. :*77. Another new .journalistic venture iri Wellirigtdn. It is reported that Chiffons/ is the title of a new Wellington Indies' journal, owned, edited, and managed by a Sydney. girl.. • '"' - : . , - : ,' -7-' In proportion to its population, New Zealand, sends far the largest amount' of all goods, and also of foodstuffs ; and also takes from us the largest amount of British manufactures.— Grocery. The Mayor oi Perth, W-A., said last week that he thought the tariff would mean ruin pretty generally to '" Wgst Aus-. tralia. The man m business m a moderate way will be wiped out. •_;■" The Queensland Commercial Agent m the East states that merchants m the North China trade complain of their inability to do business with Australia, because of scarcity of shipping. Qiptaift Gibb, of the R.M.S. Moana, left the mail steamer at Vancouver/and proceeded to Scotland to bring out the company's new steamer Maraina, Captainy F. A. Hemming is now iri command of the Moana. - > , jl;Sir H an 7 Rawson, Governor gf N.6>. W., said last week that m £0 years, given, population, good government and good laws, 'Australia would be one of the great countries of; the world.