NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1866, 20 August 1918, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Of eighty-six army chaplains who have given their lives at the front, fifty-seven were Church of England members and nineteen Roman Catholics. Sold just after the declaration of war for £13,000, and in 1915 for £15,250, the steamship Sydney Reid, 2,852 tons, has just changed owners for £42,000. Cod-liver oil three, times a day is the regular custom in Norway in order to minimise the hardships resultant upon the shortage of butter and margarine. Nearly £000,000,000 has been provided for the United States navy in twelve months. This is only £72,000,000 less than the total expenditure from 1794 to 1910. Photographs of graves of British soldiers in France are only taken on request of the relatives. Over 00,000 of these requests have been received and complied with. Not yet nineteen, with over two years’ service at the front in the Royal Fusiliers, Sergeant-Major Arthur Bailey, of Hounslow, has been promoted regimental sergeantmajor. The Paris Embassy is the hestpaid diplomatic position in the world. The official salary is £15,000 per annum, the next largest being £IO,OOO attaching to the Embassy at Washington. Hinged with gold, a carrot has been dug up near Belfast. The vegetable had a valuable gold signet ring around its middle. The owner of the garden had lost the ring some months ago. “France’s Gratitude” is the name of a new medal struck by the French Government. It was created for presentation to the Queen of the Belgians as a slight token of France’s gratefulness for the tremendous service done to humanity by Belgium in 1914, Dr, Colin Simpson, of Fraserburg, Aberdeenshire, serving with the Russian army since the outbreak of war, performed 2,000 operations, treated 38,000 wounded, and superintended 47,000 dressings. The famous Warboys (Hunts) cockerel has now raised £9,000 for the Red Cross. In three years he has travelled 1,900 miles, has been sold 8,500 times, and made thirtyfive limes his weight in gold. The enormous demand for linen for covering aeroplane wings is rapidly absorbing the visible supplies of the world, and it may be years before this material can be bought at a reasonable price. The velocity with which sound travels through water is more than four times as great as through air. As long ago as 1827 the sound of a bell under water was transmitted over twenty-one miles. Fifty-five years ago New Zealand purchased and thinly armoured four small cargo boats. Their names were the Flint, Midge, Chub, and Ant, and they were the first war fleet ever possessed by a British Overseas Government. Lecturing at the Royal Institution on “War Music,” Sir Alexander Mackenzie said that the real Avar ‘music, avus composed of plates made in Germany for printing British music. These had been melted dmvn and hurled at us in (he shape of bullets through the gun muzzle. “Probably some of my own lias been returned that way,” he obsetwed. A remarkable operation has been performed on ex-Corporal H. L. Marlin, Northumberland Fusiliers, who avus Avounded at Loos. A shrapnel bullet entered his shoulder, passed through the collar-lame, and lodged in the muscle of bis heart. Recently P was discovered that the bullet bad moved slightly, and Martin entered Leeds Infirmary, where it avus successfully removed. Art treasures in Paris are protected from damage by air raiders by the measures adopted by the city authorities. The stained glass Avindows of Saint Chapclle have been removed to A'aulN. The sculpture on the Arc de Triompbe has been covered Avith sandbags. The decorations by Carpeaux, illustrating the dance, in front of the Opera, and other art Avorks, have been protected similarly. At the Manchester Assizes recently, a married woman named Alice Dickinson was aAvarded £lO9 damages in an action against a farmer named Pendelbury, of Harwood, near Bolton, for injuries caused by the kick of a cow. The plaintiff, avlio avus Avorking on the defendant’s farm, Avas about to milk a cow Avhen it kicked her, and her leg was permanently injured. The jury held that the coav was vicious to the knoAA'ledge of the defendant.