Brevities

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5245, 11 April 1908, Page 2

Brevities

The London County Council loan ot 2f million pounds wus subscribed over tenfold. King Edward returns from Biarritz on the 16th instant, earlier than was expected. Mr Haldane is appealing to employers to give facilities for joiuing tho torr torial force. Dr Robb, of Belfast, reports that a new rerum treatment of oolebro-spinal meningitis has reduced tho death-rate Irom 75 to 30 per oont. M. Ponteaux, chemist, of Dijon, Fruncp, has invented an electric gun which he da ; ms will fire 1200 Hhots a minute. Lloyd’s Register shows that the tonnage of ships now building in the Unitod Kingdom is 459,000 below the figures for the Bame period of 1907, the largest decrearo since 1894. A ploughing club, with a strong membership, has boon formed at Takapau. A ploughing match is to bo held in about Bix weeks’ time, in which the events will be open.