Brevities.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 5702, 20 April 1911, Page 2

Brevities.

Threo Newcastle boys at Witley Bay were overtaken by the tide and drowned Canada txpeots 175,000 immigrants from Groat Britain this year. There were 112,000 last year. Hammond flew seven miles in lOmin in a trial flight. He was unable to give a pubiio flight owing to the wind. A Tetnuka letter-carrier has been committed for trial on charges of destroying and detaining trade oirculars entrusted to him to deliver. A speaker at a mass meeting held at San Francisco, under the auspioes of the Asiatic Exclusion League, declared that unless Japanese immigration oeased war would result. Aotivity continues at tho Taranaki Petroleum Company’s bores at Moturoa Shares whioh a few months ago were at four or five shillings, are now selliog at par. The N.S.W. Potato-growers’ Conference is requesting the Government to offer a reward for the disoovory of a remedy for Irish blight in view of the alarming spread of the disease.* In the presonoe of 20,000 people at Brooklands, while Wilkinson’s oar was travelling 90 miles an hour, tho olutoh jammed and he was unable to stop at the winning post. His oar jumped 40ft cutting through an iron paling. Wilkinson’s oondition is oritioal.