Brevities.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5967, 21 November 1912, Page 2

Brevities.

Lord Bt. Aldwyu rejected the We|ab owners' claim lor a reduction of wages. Tbe abduetion oharga against Jest Johnson waa dismissed et Chisago.

At the international horaa abow tbi United States took firat piece with laglaud saeond.

Another attempt to recover the bodies from the North Lyell mioe waa nearly disastrous.

At Lot Angeles a madman bearing dynamite sufficient tu destroy a hundrsd buildings held the polios station for as hour.

“ I don’t cere for beer axoept on t very hot day." " What do you call a hot day ?" " Oh, any kind of a day wbao the meroury geta above 40."

The Thunderer, equipped with Adnata! Percy Soott’a fire director, roored thaw times at many hits with 18 0 guns at lbs Orion, wbioh waa not thus equipped. Sohrank, who shot Mr Rooaevelt, bar been deolared insane, tbe dootora' dtai. cion being unanimous. He bet beta committed to an aaylum lor an iktsfinite period.

Terriffio floods and gales are reported at Kingston, Jamaioa. The Western ass tion of the telegraph ayatem bat btaa wrecked, and vast damage done to trap end buildings.