Brevities

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 5703, 22 April 1911, Page 2

Brevities

J Offioial reports show that a great shortage of labour exists iu the Queensand sugar districts.

The Mexioan Ambassador assured Mi Taft iu ao interview that peaoe would soon be re established.

The average weight of lambs slaugh tered at the Gisborne freezing workß, this season, has been 321 b.

The Gear Meat Company is dosing two of its Wellington shop*, on account of the high prioe of meat.

Caruso has left for Italy as his throat needs rest after his illness. This means to him a net loss of £25,000. A bomb exploded at Cbioago under a liquor dealer’s wholesale warehouse, and killed three and injured twenty ocou pants.

In Wanganui duiing Maroh the total rainfall was a quarter of an inch, rain falling on four days. The river was nine inches below the zero mark at Pipiriki. The Petone paper says that some of the butter whioh is finding its way into the local retail market is not secondary, but thirdly, and Is 2d a pound at that. Duriug 30 years the Salvation Army has established in Australia 436 corps, 945 outposts, 9 boys’ homes, 8 girls’ homes, 26 homes for women aud 20 city shelters.

A blasting aooident ooourred at the Viotorian proprietory mine at Diamond Hill. Thomas Brookes and Karl Brookes were killed aud three men seriously injured.

Viotor Gaubert has been arrested for the murder of his wife Eliz*, in the vil Inge of Lappena, near Marseilles. The circumstances of the murder resemblsd those in the Orippen case.

British immigrants are arriving in Vancouver at the rate of 200 daily. It U believed that the immigration into the dominion will exceed all records during the coming season.

A record orowd of 24,000 emigrants left the Clyde on Saturday, Ist April, for Canada and the United States. It is stated that many thousands more are already booked. North Ibland wool-growers will bs plwafed with the news that Bradford tops, ooarse orossbred counts, are on the up grade. Tho dose margin between fine and coarse wool is rather pronounced. Apparently rough tweeds are again to beoome fashionable.