Brevities.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 5401, 13 April 1909, Page 2

Brevities.

The railway traffio during the tu bolidaye constitutes a reoord for 1 time of the year. There was a glut of fruit on the » lington market, last week. Prices , very low. A balloon containing three Gen, officers, with a camera, plans and J, ments, has been detained at Staton, Franoe. The Frenoh Minister ol j is investigating tbe matter. The deoision of the Belgian Gom moot to oomplete hastily tbe armsg, of the Antwerp ports is connected a the visit of the German military bsllt to the Bobeldt. Timaru Herald reports that an and cant before this week’s Old Age p sions’ Court was found to have proa of tbe value of £IO6O, and from i| was getting 6 per cent. Last week a quantity of wnth was washed ashore at Kailtoura. it, sisted of parts of a boat and ratt, and much-battered tin box bearing the sot “S.B. Penguin.” “I thought he was malingering, lt | tested him,” said the dootor is course of a compensation oase. cried like a baby at the pain of an 1! trie ourrent that was not on.” Mr Carnegie has given to Henili College, New York State, when Elihu Root was educated, a son £400,000, to commemorate Mr fie servioes in the cause of ioternatia peace. Mr Charles Howells, auotionest! Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and ( Invercargill, was thrown from a trsp the Moa Flat-Tapanui-road, ovist the break not acting, and received li injuries. Some human remains, believed It those of a victim of the Penguin disssl were washed ashore at Terawhiti Saturday, and were interred bp police at a spot some distanoe sk high-water mark. The Gisborne Harbour Board deoid to aocept the offer of Simmoneandl of Renfrew, for a dredge similar It Mawhera, tbe new Greymouth drsdg the prioe being £34,500, subject It commodation extending over tvoni King Emanuel and Queen Helena indignant at the condition of Usst whioh is without a thoroughfare 1 has no habitable dwellings beyond k 1 and railway carriages. There it non! 1 light or sanitation, and swarms ol I ; are carrying the germs of disease.