Brevities.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5244, 9 April 1908, Page 2

Brevities.

Lord Kelvin’s net estate is valued at £152,053.

Mr Piorpont Morgan has purchased the Aldobrundiui Palace, Rome. Mr G. N. Barnes’ resignation of tho secretaryship of tho Amalgamated Society of Engineers has been accepted. Bult-er has declined in Wellington Id per lb both wholesale and retail, quotations being Is aud Is 4d respectively. Three persons were killed in a riot at Lisbon on Tuesday. The police fired a volley after a round of blank cartridge. An attempt to form a Fire Police Corps in Christchurch failed, only 25 applications for membership being received. t The Italian Naval Estimates total £0,092,000 sterling, which is half a million over the amount sanctioned by the law of 1905. It is proposed to build two Dreadnoughts. Several hundred oattle were driven from a farm at Elphin, Roscommon, through tho ranks of the ooustabulary, after a desporate oonfliet between the mob and the polioe.

From thirty two peach iries n Havelook North (Ha vice’s Bay) fruitgrower has this season obtained about five tons of fruit.

There are now 320 students at Wellington College. No other eecon.liiry sohool in the Domini in has such a large number of names on its roll.

It has been ascertained that there were only 28 inmates in the Castle-street houses wheu they collapsed. Eight wore killed and 3 seriously hurt, whilo 17 are detained iu hospitul slightly injured. An Act has been passod by the Oklahoma Legislature making it a punishable olLnoe for the proprietor of any hotel in the State to uso bod-sheets loss than nine L»et in 1-ngth, or to export the ou*to4ne'B to line cr-cked ohinaw&ro.

A telegram from Philadelphia to the New Y'T-c Herald states that Jthe directors of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts have sectioned the establishment of a smoking room for girl students. The innovation has aroused much opposition from the Womeu’s Christian Temperance Union, which oonduots an antismoking crusade as a side isBUo.