BREVITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3267, 12 July 1911, Page 6

BREVITIES.

For a Cup-final played in the irovinces, the last between Bradford and Newcastle, at Manchester, holds the record for attendance, the number of people present being 66,646. Timber factories and workshops employ 74,564 people; while furniture factories employ 91,412, carriage, cait, and waggon factories 36,132, i :id mdiarubber factories 24,040 persons.. People to the number of 36,286 on fbot or in vehicles, crossed Blackfriars, London, and Tower bridges into the city between 8.30 a.m. and 9.30 a.m. when a “rehearsal’,’ census was taken recently. . In China the inhabitants are counted every year in a curious manner. The oldest master of every 10 houses has to count the families, and make a list, which is sent to the Imperial taxhouse. . . Over 2000 people have sent m claims for a share of the fortune, said to amount to millions, left by a Highlander named Urquhart, of Dingwall, Rossshire, who was formerly a Californian gold-miner. A West End firm have been experimenting with a bargain sale for men. The average time of the bargain hunters.was 10 minutes each. The dodge (it is stated) has no- influence on the male mind. • . Soapstone is largely used in China for preserving structures built of sandstone and 'other stones liable to crumble from climatic effects. It is powdered and piit on in the form of paint, . and will preserve buildings for hundreds of years. , 1 Mr. 'Harry Lauder, who worked as a boy in a mine, • visited the House of Commons on Wednesday, and said that he had .secured Home Office support for. his pleh for regulations on behalf of pit ponies. ' An unknown work of Wagner’s has just been unearthed at Dresden. It consists of a, supplementary instrumental accompaniment for a chorus for male voices written by Wagner at the request of August 11., in 1843. When the occupants of a cell in the prison' of Tagenrog paid no attention to the order of a sentry to stop singing, the sentry, says a Reuter telegram from' Moscow, fired through the window, killing.a prisoner on the spot. The'Crystal Palace is to be offered by auction by Messrs Knight, Frank, and Rutley. in conjunction with Messrs Horne ad Co., by order of the court, upon a date yet to be fixed. A granary fourteen storeys high is to be erected at Glasgow by the .Clyde Navigation Trust for the reception of grain from America. It will be the highest building in Scotland. .Miss France® Hall, of Chingford, has won the scholarship, .valued at £3O per annum, founded for soprano singers at the Guildhall School of Music by Mme. Melba.

Nearly 3000 subscribers have contributed £SOOO to a testimonial to be presented to the . Prime Minister by his constituents in East Fife. The presentation will take place at Blebo on Jury 22, when Mr. Asquith "will have represented -the constituency for twenty-five years.