BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3455, 10 March 1890, Page 3

BREVITIES.

Fine again. Old Sol in Yesterday' Brain welcome. Harvest operations concluded, Aljiino rangers in a "fog," Bale of rate privileges on Satacday a success. Distribution of" filth" from a shop in Queen-street. Poliou noworlens I Sensational breach of promise case to bo heard shortly in Wellington, Sorgoant Prico (truck so- forcibly iWim inebriate that.he nearly "had thfwind knocked out of him," "Jack the Ripper" at work in Russia, A woman's hosd j)iC3entetl to the Czar. Fighting between. - French and Dabomeyans, The-litter lost 400 men.

Wirth'u eircua, Thnmday and Friday. Crowded houses in store. Groat success in Wellington, Single Tax Hociety not yet defunct, Tinj6 it bub I

Very interesting to learn what nrra ol land is in iho possesion of thc<e linfilc-uxciii. |\ot nivfh, th '?

-. Bni'lh, tvho happened lr. bo j'.:i>-ini! pork buteher's nhup th>! o;li,i morning, commeiiwil whistling, vtm, to his amazement P»f.ry Mtuing.--wagged its tail. The Trade Unions of New Z;«l,ind are said on good anlhority to iuclud.: upwards of 20,000 member?, At Lawrcnco, Otngo, whero once, twenty-five years ago, flour km sold at £2OO a ton, and on one occasion ' hnlf-iKiown to given for a pannikin full/Bead is now 5d per -111) loaf, Two littlo boys, John Clifford and Arthur Mann, Hero found hidden tinder a seat in a railway carriage in the Melbourno express, on its arriyai at Albnry. They had been without food for 2-t hours.

A scheme ot Home Rule for Witlea has beon elaborated by the Wel.-li National Council, and is now being agitated. The death of a lliirteon.ycar-old boy named Willie Flood, as the result of nervous prostration brought on by cigarette smoking, has started, a very energetic anti-cigarotto crusado in Philadelphia, Early elosing means more healthy and contented workers; early closing means less expense in working « business; early closing means happier lapes; early closing moans belter kept gardens; and early closing means better kept Sabbaths.—Early Closing Advocate. At the Auckland Board of Education on February 28 some com* pongee was received from acoontry Echoef committee, tbo point raised being a curions one. The committee oljecled to the newly appoint*! t< tidier at any price, as he was not a named man. The Board thought that as matrimony was comidwed so esson'ial in that district, they ihould give the bachelor a " show" to qualify, and accordingly roverely ienoied the objection of the committee.

A girl may marry in this country with the consent of her parent, at any time after sho has attained the Bge of 12 years. What fun I

Ex-Mayor Harris, ol Sydney, wants to know if tbero is a single alderman who would keep a boy of 15 who could not do moro work in a day than the Town Hall clerical staff. He does not think thorn is.

The death is announced of J. H, Saddler, the Soulier, who twice won the Championshipoflho World. Duiine ibo paat year oulylO fatal of firedamp were r ported as mm» occurred in British coal mine?,-*ie number of deaths resulting therefoie reaching 128.

The legend of the Strathoiorcs.

Glarnis Castle has a ghost of most romantic description, and, what is more, the spectre's authenticity is vouched for by any number of reliable witnesses. The ghost is of the feminine gender, and is alleged io be tbo spirit of a female ancestor of tbe family who attempted to kill King James tbo Fifth with a dagger and was condomned to be burned at tbe stake. The enormity of the crime forbade the burial of hoi' ashes in consecrated ground, and bo all that ghostly of hor roains the earth, and at odd intervals amuses itself by haunting certain rooms of Glarnis Castle, and appearing at irregular intervals to members of the Lyon family. One of the particular duties of tho ghost is to receive a visit from each succeeding earl, which feat is performed by tho newpeor Bleeping on tit* night of tbe funeral of his predecessor in a oertain room of the castle, supposed to havo been the chamber of tho regioidal lady.

Itia tmderatood that on this particw ocoasion advico and information of a remarkable nature is imparted to tho succeeding chief of all the LyonE, and that tho true reason for the attempt on tbe life of King Jimmio ii explained by the epectre, to be handed down from generation to generation as a seorot in the family. At any 'rate, a lord of glarnis never reveals what passed during his night in tho haonted room, except npon his deathbed, and then ho whispers a comronnication to tbe heir, which usually has the effect of making that personago very uncomfortablo in anticipauon. It is, however, supposed from tho deep respect in which the memory of the incinerated lady is held at Glainis, that she had most oxcellent reasons for seeking to carvo his Majjty of Scotland.