Brevities.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 6153, 14 February 1914, Page 2

Brevities.

About twenty domestics arrive i from London by tbe Rua ehu They were io charge of Mrs M Book. A farmer in the Saodoo district thresh < d 85 basheli to the aore from a crop of oats this eetsoD. Some heavy wheat oropi ate also reporte J. The local paper eayi there ere at least nioe families liviog in teats at Taumarnoui beiause th«y are unable to get suit* able houaing accommodation. > - A long sitting of the Prussian Diet wai adjourned owing to the exhaustion of the itenograpbere. It ii believed tbat Germany ie averee to a demonstration iu Turkish w«teri in oouneotion with the Graeco-Turkish quarrel. Strict precautions have been adopted in the case of vessels from German New Guinea whare an outbreak of cholera is raportel. Arthur Gwynne, nephew of Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt, was secretly married to Regiua Kenn, daughter of a plumber, a beautiful blonde of 16 an 1 an artist’e model.

A bill giving tbo civil form of marriage precedence of the religious is causing high feoliog. It is expected that the Clericals aud Socialists will be at each others throats in tbe Italian Chamber.

Orville Wright, interviewed on the trans-Atlantic aeroplane trip, said it would be impracticable and foolhardy for auy airman to attempt it with present engines. All efforts to cover a similar distance on land had failed.

A telegram states that hop’piuking at Motueka and Riwaka will commence at the end of the present month The is rathe: light, but an advanoa of last year’s market price is anticipated Raspberry picking is just about finished. It is estimate! the season’s output amounts to considerably over 150 tons.