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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8128, 30 April 1906, Page 3

HOME NEWS BREVITIES.

Mr Gladstone intends to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into aooidents in rimes. A man tramped from Cardiff to Soarboroogh to defend a summons for wife maintenance. Sir Philip Tatton"~Mainwaring£ fourth baronet, of Knutsford. Cheshire, has died at Biarritz, in his sixty-eighth year. Greatly upset by the death of hia donkey, an old man named Wiiliam Reeves, of Gillifagham, Dorset, has committed suicide. The house in Love-lane in whioh air Christopher Wren liv«d during the rebuilding of St. Paul's is to be pulled down. V * The death has occurred at Colwyn Bay of a woman of seventy-four, who spent fifty years in domestic service in one household. To settle the question of the matinee hat a contemporary proposes that men should sit on one Side o? a theatre and women ou the other. A large sandstone water basin of Danish origin has been dug up at South Benfleet. It is supposed to be a relic of the days of Danish encampment. '•Doctor's certificates are very unreliable, and I shall not place 1 any depehdence upon them for the future." —Judge Owen, at the Monmouth County Court. There exists at tho Broad Plain Bouse Bristol, a free legal dispensary. Several solicitors place a portion of their time at the disposal of the poor requiring advice. Although the Mnyor did not <?ee why bachelors should be allowed to sit up later than other people, the Scarborough bench granted a license-extension of five hours for the baohelor's ball. Having worked on the same farm near Biandford (Dorset) for sixty-six years, a shepherd named Sampson has died, at the afje of seventy-five in the house where he had lived over since his biith. Walter Leslie, once the "star" tebor in the* Moore and Burgesa Minstrels, has been converted at : a Wesleyan " revival " meeting at Komford, Essex, and is now helping the mission by singing and relating his "experiences." much have the sparrows been thinned in some parts of Essex, owing to the effects of local sparrow clubs, that the Stansted Farmers' Sparrow Club f propose to reduce the reliability of the members from three sparrows to two sparrows for * errery couple of aores of land farmed. * Extraordinary activity prevails in the cycle and motor-car trades at Coventry. ■ —Mm n;ymi Bugler Dunne, of Oolenso fame, 1 •Js now a steward on the as. Persic, a White Star liner. John Kelly, who died at St. John's Point, Co. Down, at the age of 108, only a few horns before his death smoked hia Dipe. t ; mi mr7BT-r«an» nrm *"* Some fine fourteenth century panelling has been discovered by the removal of a plaster ceiiisg in a ihouae in Nwwbury market place. The only thing'"*that M's.P. resent, says Mr Henry Norraau, is that if they dia in harness no word of regret is officially spoken in the House. In Lent people should get up a quarter of an, hour earlier and read ' the Bible, said the Bishop, of London in opening a mission at St. Michael's, Highgate. , The Twickenham Education Committee have decided to include the teaching of gardening in the for the boys attending the Whitton schools. For the first time in England a i British motor-car company—the Na-pier-—will give a three-year guarantee with every six-cylinder car; supplied by the firm. Official approval has been given to" the formation of the Legion of Prontiersmen, the members of which are to be in readiness to psaist in the defence of the Empire in case of emergency. "One hundred and fifty members of the new House of Commons are total abstainers," said Mr T. I W. Russell, M.P., speaking before the National Commercial Temperance League rocently. After a quarter of a century of service, ill-health hus' oompelied Police Inspector Joseph Lambert, of the Y r Divisioi}, stationed at New Sonthgate, to retire. He was kiown i» the force as "Sherlook Holmes." If the total annual expenditure on relief of the poor in England and Wales had (been distributed over the whole population, it- would have cost per head ts 1806, (the least since 1549), 8s 5d (the most) in 1905. V - ' Twenty-seven, cabdrivers, whose combined ages totalled 2,070 years, attended before Dr. Forbes Winslow, honorary physiolan to the Cabdrivers' Benevolent Association, as candidates for the pensions granted by the sooiety every year. Tramps at Bourne. Lines have recently been, found biding money in holes in the ehorchyard wall before going into the casual ward. This is done in order to pass the workhouse official, who searches them to * see if they have any, money for lodgings. The new Baker Street and Waterloo Railway was opened for passenger traffic on March 10th. ' Mr Clark Russell, the well-known nautical novelist, celebrated his / sixty-fifth birthday recently. Mr French, the Speaker's traty bearer, who has known nine Pailiaiments, giveß the number of new M's.P. at 294. While dancing as a general accomplishment seems to be decaying in Paris, its vogue in London is steadily increasing. A ewe belonging to Miss Piokard, of Burrough ' Farm, Northam, Devon, has just given birth to four Jambs, bb it did last year.