BREVITIES.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11678, 13 July 1906, Page 4

BREVITIES.

It is stated that a resident in the Grey district has purchased for three thousand pounds the scow-bar-quentine Jap, which carries 185,000 ±(3et of timber. The Rev. Father O'Hallahan, of Kumara, died last week, having received a paralytic stroke. He was--48 years old* and was well known at WfcstpOrt attd Abaura* where he officiated before going to Kuiiliifai The best-paid British Ambassador is Sir Francis Bertie, whose repre sentation of Britain in France brings him £QOOO a year. Viscount Gougb, as British Minister Resident in Saxony, receives the lowest pay— £9so A handsome motor car stopped at a Tyrole.se village near the Italian frontier, and its occupants left a parcel behind them, which was found to contain an infant in swaddling clothes with banknotes to the value of £2400. The House of Representatives at Washington has passed the Bill for dividing the funds and lands of the Osage Indians, who are the richest body of people in the world. They number 1800, and the Uuited States Treasury holds £1,600,000 to their credit an averge of about £300 each. A syndicate has been formed in the North Island to clean flax without scutching atd without paddocking by a combination electrical and chemical process. The plant will be installed at Shannon. The death occurred in England a few weeks ago of Sir David Dale, at the age of seventy-six, years. The deceased was a powerful influence in the North of England in i. o maintenance of the best traditions and ideals of Liberalism, ThO Hobart Benevolent Society, which has about £12.000 in hand, is considering the advisableness of erecting cheap cottages for poor people. 1 Some of the largest ocean steamers can be converted into armed cruisers • in 30 hours. ' Arrested for stealing a dollar ' from a white boy at Blanehard, 3 Louisiana, U.S.A., a negro wa3 taken out of the goal and lynched. " and his body riddled with bullets, h Belgium has been visited by extremely violent storms, which have j caused numerous disasters. The j worst occurred at Louvain, where a » cloudburst wrecked the place. Six j people fell victims, and two children j who weie attending school are missA girl at Philadelphia has received 3 a Carnegie medal for bravery She i sucked the poison from the bite of a rattleauake inflicted on a boy. After--3 wards she assisted him to the residence of a physician, seven miles distant where she fainted and nearly j succumbed. t The two little islands of Zanzibar and Pemba furnish four-fifths of the cloves consumed by the world.