BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3456, 11 March 1890, Page 2

BREVITIES.

Change.', '■■'). /,"?,, -Jy. Thermometer falling" , Another" drunk" before tho Court, . Another applicant for matrimonial bliss, i Benedicts to: the front!

Maslcrton quiet. Business people looking strangely at one another. Quadrille assemblies in course of formation. Terpsichoreans all alive I : , Handsome presentation to be by tho Masons to J?,M, Bro Gardner. P--Close on 400ozs of gold purchased from the Mahakipawa field last week, Admiral Lord Charles Scott declares that the cruisers being made for the Australian station are too small,

Proposed to form a Chamber of Mines, as the result of the Mining Conference. ~, , ;: . Four- hundred meuont of wotk on the Midland railway, West Coast. Laborers requested by Union to keep away.

; New Zealand horse "Carbine" made several wins nt V.R.O, Autumn meeting. Wonderful horse this I At a meeting of flaxraill owners at Bulls it was decided to form a branoh of the Foxton Flaxmiller's Association.

Hours. Wapes, and Educationin . America.'

Hugh Cavaiiagh writes to the ! Cincinnati Evening Post to tell somo things he' saw in the south while ■ attending, the Knights 'of Labor general assembly. He says—" In the thirty-three cotton factories in \ I the state of Georgia there are em-*' ployed 2,000 white children between i the ages of seven and twelve years, every ouo of whom was by the Knights of Labor committee of investigation, revealing the fact' that, of tbe entire number only seventeen could read and write their names. : The lowest numbor of hours worked by those children or auy of the operatives in this industry is 08 per week, 14 hours longer than are worked by ' the operatives in the same industry in Great Britain. '< The wages -paid are from 20 conts per day for infants, up to' 00: cents per: .day for women and; girls, Men in the picker 1 robnr receive as high as 86 cents a day. A committee of gentlemen representing the district assembly Knights of Labor of Atlanta, presented a state-

ment of this condition oi affairs to the state legislature, asking that it bo given consideration, .Failing to hear from: thaV'august-biSdyV: the committee inquired the cause, anfr wero informed that a discussion of th* subject would expose the illiterate condition of the people'of the slate to its disadvantage," consequently it. would bo impolitic to agitate it,"

Alarming to Koyal Heads.

The Czar Las been nearly terrified out of liia senses by,.the success ofvlh ! o,.militery : rovol'ution Brazil, as the of a whole army bo suddenly 'turning around at the iustigation of a popular general in indescribably shocking .and;startling to the ruler of such an Empire an Russia, wkero tho stability of the I throne and dynasty entirely depends 'upon tho fidelity of tho array, and everyjone is" ajjare, that discontented V generals are'by ho means übknowtfin Russia. The Czar's first step has been to stop the hideous prosecutions / of M. Pobedonetaff, who has been rractically the ruler of the Empire for a considerable period, Tens of thousands of Jews, Protestants, amV Roman Catholics have been ruthlesslyt driven out of the country by him, wliilo vast numbers have been exiled to Siberia. If the Czar's panic leads him to disgrace Pobedobetsjoff, and to end this system of idiotic iqtoler. ance and brutal tyranny, it will at least give a check to the Nihilist conspiracies for a time,

I The terror of the Sultan, too, when . he heard the particulars of the Brazilian revolution, led him at once jo distribute a largo •««« ajtong hjs, 7 : -*

Albanlanrand: Nubian Guatds/'hiid the nrreara of pay which are duo to tho Tutkish'Atmjr »re to bo paid off at once.'