Brevities.

Thames Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 8604, 8 March 1897, Page 2

Brevities.

At St. Gaorge's Church la» evening during the offertory Mr G. E. Bray, of Dunedin, sang W H. Judes' " Behold I »tand at the door and knock,"

A man nmrcd Baird, who has been working at the VVailii Co.'a Iwttery, lias been received at the Thames Hospital for treatment. He h.is been suffering for some time from insoir.niii.

Mr L J. Bngnall has been urging the Ohiiicmuri County Council to write to the Government suggesting that steps be taken to see what silting up is going on in the Waihou river, owing to its being made a sludge channel, but no action has been tiiten.

The privileges for the Ohinemuri wees were sold by Mr G. F. If cCullagh at Paeroa, on Saturday, and the following pr'cos by tha persons numed wore pii<t:-Gatca, £ ,|> 10s, Mr Quadti; publican's tmoili £l\2 10s, Mr Montgomery ; refresh-u nt 1 ooth, £10 Mr Armour; fruit stall, £l I >„. Air Avmon ; cards, .£3O, Mr Sampson. Tji;il. .£3i«). On Saturday in Auckland Mr ocil Leys, who is severing his connection with the / literary staff of the Auckland Star, jrn.n \ the recipient of a handsome gold cluiin a-id V quartz pendant as a souvenir from h*s brother journalists. Mr Leys leaved lor Sydney to day en. route to London, whore he will continue his journalistic career.

The sacred concert, advertised for List Sunday, did not take place, Sergeant Gillies having notified the management that ha did not consider the programme suited to » Sunday evening's entertainment