BREVITIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11087, 1 October 1907, Page 5

BREVITIES.

The guarantee of the Hawera - tradespeople towards 1 the interest on the pro-, posed tramway loan .has now reached £700 per annum. ' V • The Timaru Harbor. .Board received from the : Provincial Government, on its institution, a grant of £106,415 11s sd, and has raised by loans £323,700. Instructions have been given for calling for tenders for the erection of wirei less telegraphy stations : between Queensland and Papua. The Strath Taieri School Committee is up in arms against a proposal to establish a consumptive sanatorium within 200 yards of the school. Captain Pustau, a- German naval expert, declares that imminent developments in aerial navigation will T make aerial motoring as popular as road motoring within the next decade. The lowest rainfall recorded in the colony last month was .44in } at Roxburgh. ■"'.'■• A leading firm of brokers in Dunedin ar© trying to secure an option for six months over the dredging claims on the Clutha, with a view of disposing of them to a London syndicate. • Wairarapa School Committees' Association have unanimously passed a motion recommending *he Education Board to abolish slates altogether and substitute blocks of writing paper. Two members of the House of Representatives have tbeen /widowed and married again during the present Parliament. The Auckland A. and P. Society has now 800 members, and an effort is to be made to increase the number to 1000 before the November ShoW. Feildirig Borough 'Council has decided to ask the ratepayers to approve a loan qf £3040 for sewer extension, and a loan of £10*368 for street improvements. The Wunganui' Presbytery passed a motion of sympathy with the Rev. Ryburn in his illness..