BREVITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3230, 29 May 1911, Page 3

BREVITIES.

Over 650 suppers and breakfasts -were served Avithoux a hitch at the all-night sitting of the House of Commons. To the Carnegie Roll of Heroes 192 names ay ere added daring the last year, making 339 since the Hero Fund started. ! In Londfln the rate for a telephone with unlimited service is. £l7 10s a year, while for the same, facilities in Denmark .tiie charge ,-is £l.' -'' : _..; The 'intensity, of starlight- is about one four-millionth part- .of Lie intensityyof bright sunlight on tire surface of toe earth. __ . , Measuring only 28 by 2o inches, Gainsborough’s picture of Mias Linley and her brother lias just changed hands for £40,000. Posted at Rome, on March 29, 1894, a letter, informing its recipient of the birth of a grand-nepheiv, has just been delivered to the right 1 address in Florence.

The Scotsman is the best taxpayer. As a rule- nearly 60 per cent .-pay their income tax before the end of January, while in England 35 per cent, is about the average. Between the passengers on the Kinfauns Castle and those on the Marathon a chess-matcli Avas recently played by means of wir'eless telegraphy, the vessels being 200 miles apart at the conclusion. Compensation of 7s per week has been awarded a NeAvcastle charwoman, Avhose hand Avas permanently injured through the bite of a monkey while she Avas feeding it in the house of a casual employer. The captain of an Atlantic liner receives little more than £lO for taking a ship worth a million pounds, valuable cargo, 2000 passengers, and a shipment of specie across 3000 miles of the worst sea in the ivorld.