Brevities.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5247, 16 April 1908, Page 2

Brevities.

The Court of Appeal has adjourns till the 27th inst.

Tho estate of Mr Remington, ] 6 t, general manager of tho Mutual Lifs Atsociation, has bean sworn for probali at £6863. The Sydney City Council resolved to add the coat of arms of Captain Cook to the oity coat of arms. During the past twelve months buildings to the value of £85,380 were orscUd in Gisborne. The Bteamor Derwent and the barqui Metropolis collided in Newcastle hubour. Tho Metropolis was considerably damaged. The erection of a Federal small-aron factory at Lithgow will be commence at once. It is estimated that it will oon £70,000. It is reported that close on £1001) hit now been collected in aid of the building fuud of the Wellington Uoitsriii Free Church. Work has ceased for the present i| the Maharahara oopper mines. Tin directors of the company hope to rsium working on an extensive scale shortly, A suddon doath ocourred at a Giebons dental surgery yesterday afterooon, whs Mrs J. B. Hollier expired whilst uods chloroform prior to a dental operation. The drought in the north-eesttra di tricts of Victoria is very severe audmuj owners are compelled to band-feedlar|i quantities of stock, and are sending son to other districts. the price of meat iu Wb lington to retail butchers has bseu it creased Is per 1001 b for beef and Jd pi lb for mutton, it is considered uuliksl] that tho price to the public will k raised. The Grand Master of the Chinese Ml sonic Lodge in Australia states that tfc boycott against Japan is to coatioi He claims that Australia will beneil largely from China’s commercial awakening. It is understood that the inooon tho Government Railways SuperanDOl tion Fund Board last year was appros mately £51,000, and that the pip raents by the board amounted to ibok £35,000. Taranaki dairy faotories (according! the News) are storing the bulk of tUI output, presumably for looal couiump tion. Over a thousand boxes have bet placed in cool store at the Motuw works during the past week or so. M. Zalakoff, a Russian disguised in mullah, wus arrested near Herat in jx» session of maps and jottings of tk route to Herat, and of food and viM supplies. Zalakolf was imprisonsd i Cabul. Iu the absence of direot telephoN and owing to the slowness of telegram bets are accepted in Vienna bov after English races are run. Tiksf advantage of this a group of sharp*) utilising the telephones between L» don, Paris, Berlin and thence to View swindled a leading bookmaker of atf) thousands.