Brevities.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 5118, 8 June 1907, Page 2

Brevities.

Further earthquake shocks have been experienced at San Francisco. An emphatic Bulgarian note to Servia demands the speedy withdrawal of the Servian bands from Macedonia.

Mails from August will be sent from London alternately by tbo Vancouver route and by the Andrew Weir Company’s new San Francisco line. San Francisoo strikers threw a bomb under a crowded travelling tramcar. Tho passongers narrowly escaped being blown up. Thomas McKay pleaded guilty at th® Dunediu Court to biting off a girl’s nose and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.

Tbo anticipated slump has followed the Exhibition at Christchurch, in the matter of property at least. “For sale” notices ore spread round the city everywhere.

In rosponse to an advertisement for a bookkeeping clerk, a Dunedin merchant states that he reoeived 397 applicants for the billet, at least 30J of whom were fully qualified men. Dr Clifford, iu a letter to the newspapers, declares that the passive resisters must rally their forces aud create a great anti-clerical paity. More men must go to prison and more men must appear before the magistrates. At Hemvock, Devonshire, there is a small farm which carries six votes. Part of the farm is in the Tiverton division, part in the Honiton, and part in the Wellington, and the landlord and tenant get votes in each. Some idea of the actual distress at Woolwich, England, consequent on retrenchment at the Arsenal, can be gauged by tho fact that 15,000 men and their families have had to leave the borough. A man charged with drunkonnoss and using obscere language at Willeaden, put in a defence which seems to require thinking.out carefully. “As to the language,” he said, “I know nothing about that, because I’m very deaf.” The Methodist Conference decided to insert in the book of laws a resolution warning m •mbors and adherents of the church to abstain entirely from dancing, theatre-going and other questionable amusements in view of the great moral and spiritual peril attaching thereto. A property at the corner of Mercer and Willis streets, Wellingtcn, which was purchased three years ago for £OIOO was sold yesterday for £9500. The eeotion has a frontage to Willis street of 27ft Bin by a depth of 101 ft, extending down Mercer street.

The postal authorities have been ad vised of the departure of the Miowera from Sydney for Auckland with 187 baas of Australian and English mails for Wellington. These mails should reach Wellington on Monday night. Mr G. B Bullock, loctl manager for the New Zealand Shipping Comnany, at Napier, has received advice that the Kaikoura, which left Lyttelton for London on Tuesday night, is calling at Gibraltar to land a trial shipment of New Zealand meat.

A man named Want, who appeared on a judgment summons at the Shoreditch Jounty Court told the judge that he had just come out of the hospital after two operations, that he had only one eye, and could hardly see with the other, had a silver tube in his throat, was a cripple, had a wife and four children—and no work.