BREVITIES.
__ «». The fiivst consignment of wool for this season* was sent from Wairarapa on Wednesday. The Pioneer states that the latest contingent of recruits to be enrolled for the Indian Army is one of 6000 Thibetan*, under British officers. Mr William Lane, ex-Mayor of Hastings, says that he will probably be a candidate for the Hawke's Bay seat. The three-hundredth performance of "Mother Goose" took place at Dunedin last Thursday night. Only at six of the performances out of the 300 has the pantomime been played to anything short of a full house. A young man belonging to Dunedin has just completed a thirty days' fast, undertaken for health purposes, and he says it has done him good. Mr R. W. I. Carver, an old resident of Hawke's Bay, who saw active service m Poverty Bay during the Maori war, died'at Ohingaiti last week. During the passage of the Rimutaka a huge iceberg was passed on the 6th instant, after leaving Capetown. The berg- was about fifteen miles southward of the vessel; -■,-■■■-.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11109, 25 October 1907, Page 5
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