Brevities.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5250, 23 April 1908, Page 2

Brevities.

Work on the Otira Gorge tunnel will bo formally begun by tho Prime Minister on sih May.

Leeob, Harrison and Forwood, a big firm of Liverpool shipowners, have assigned their estate.

Tbe shooting of paradise duck iu the Dominion will bo prohibited from the 25th iustnnt.

A gnnernl conference of delegates from Maori Councils will bo held at Wellington on July 34th next. Tho transmission of correspondence to Sir Robert Bear, Sydney, is prohibited by notice in the GazeUe. The milk famine in Sydney is practically over, the companies having cou oodod the suppliers’ demands. It is reported in Ottawa that the Dominion Government intend to build a railway to Hudson’s Bay, opening that route to Europe. A new wing which was being erected at a co-operative store building in Milan, collapsed, killing 15 out of 40 masons who were working on it. The Dowager Empress Marie, widow of the Czir Alexander 111, has started from London on her return to St. Petersburg. Owing to secession the Maaterton Ma*t«r Butchers’ Association has collapsed. A considerable reduction in tho price uf meat is likely to ensue. ThoGsraMine Borough Council, which ha* installed an acetylene gas Bystem, line decided to cbnrge 6s 6d per 100 ft for the gas, 10011 of which, it is said, is equal to 1000 ft of coal gas. His Lordship--Tell the gentleman I’m out. Butler—Very good, sir; hut if you’ll allow me, I’ll smoke one of your cigsrs else hi won’t buliove it.

Counsel for Barry Thnw, us a step towards his release, has obtained un order of court permitting Thaw to sign an application for a writ of habeas oorpus.

Mr Longworth has introduced a bill into the American House of Representatives appropriating £1,000,000 to provice residences for American ambassadors «t Paris and elsewhere. Tho thar which were liberated some time ago at Mount Cook by the South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society are (according to the Tirnaru Post) reported to have multiplied considerably, and to he doing well. A fine consignment of trout from Lake Wanaka reached Queenstown last Friday. The total weight of tho lot was no less than 75<db. There were some real beauties, several turning the scale at 16 to 181 b.

Tho polioe discovered a plot to blow up the Imperial family at the Court during the marriage ceremony of tho Grand Duchesr Paulovua, oousin of the Czar, and the son of the King of Sweden.

The Grey Star says the first fallow deer shot on tho Coast was killed the other day when Mr Walter Mirfin, accompanied by the Rev Mr Dowel’, obtained a fine buck of nine points. Mr Mirfin holds the only license yet issued. As the result of jealousy William Buoholtz, laco merchant and warden at St. Paul’s, committed suioide aftor murdering a married woman named Power, who cohabited with him at Staines.

Mr Winston Churchill, in the course of an address at Manchester, speaking on behalf of Mr Asquith, declared that the education question must be settled by compromise, or by the adoption of the seoular system.