NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1854, 18 July 1918, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Norwich Consistory Court lots gimnted a faculty authorising the melting’ -flown of; the Connnnnion plate at Lomul Church, Suffolk, in Order to make a new set. If the ocean were dried up, all the witter passing away its vapour, the amount of salt remaining would he enough to cover 5,000,000 square miles with it layer one mile thick. Walter Gleadhill, formerly a newspaper hoy, who went out with the Expeditionary Force in 1914, has been awarded the D.C.M., Military Medal, and the French Medaille Mild a ire. The total number of tea chests required for the Indian tea crop is between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000. Of this number not more than 1,500,000 chests were, before the war, manufactured in the country. A whisky mine was discovered in Newark, U.S.A., recently. A saloonkeeper was found to have buried two barrels of rye whisky in the yard of his home in order to escape paying the war tax on the liquor. There were 45,520 street accidents, of which 2,401 were fatal, in the United Kingdom last year. A daily contemporary points out that this compares with 625 people killed and 1,469 wounded in air raids in the same period. A non-inllammable, non-break-able substitute for celluloid and glass is now being introduced in England for use in wind-shields, as an aeroplane-wing covering, for map covers, etc. Its weight is about one-sixth that of glass. A newspaper correspondent from Mexico City says that the United States has never been more intemperatcly attacked and viliiflcd by the Mexican press in general than at present, and the papers doing so are inspired by German gold. Captain \V. C. Loder Symonds, Hinton Manor, Farington, Berks, taken prisoner by the Germans in August, 1914, and who, although eligible for internment in Holland, refused to give his parole, has escaped from Germany, and is now in England. A baby progidy was exhibited at a baby show held at Seyamo, .Japan, recently. The child —a girl—who was born in Yokohama in February last, weighs 3,501) momnie (about 30 pounds). The previous record was 3,130 mornme, for a seven months’ old baby. Officer food-hogs foiled a more equitable scheme of food distribution in Bavaria recently. The authorities desired to introduce a uniform scheme of rationing for officers and men, but were obliged to abandon the scheme because of (ho officers’ indignant opposition. •loppa, the port of Jerusalem, contains several mosques and churches, convents, and tine gardens. It exports chielly oranges, corn, wine, and soap. It figured largely in the Crusades, and in 1799 Wits captured by Napoleon. The population is estimated at nearly 4(1,000. At the conference of the Institution of Naval Architects in London, Professor Dolby said a man who did it piece of work which had apparently no relation at all to anything in (he world should be encouraged to go on, and he might (ind something not thought possible.