NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1886, 5 October 1918, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A horse owned fty a rural mail-, carrier of 1 Nashville, Indiana, U.S.A., is twenty-seven years old, and has travelled (10,000 miles during the thirteen years he has been in the mail service.

Airs Nicholas Longworth, daughter of Ex-President Roosevelt, sold (he superb sapphire bracelet the Kaiser sent her for a wedding present, and donated the proceeds to the Red Cross. The Lancashire Fusiliers still retain the custom of shouting their Minden yell, and on Minden Day wear their roses to commemorate the stubborn stand they made in the rose gardens.

The record for hard work at Woolwich Arsenal (London), is held by a titter in the gun-carriage section, who has not missed a single shift of fifteen hours’ daily since the outbreak of war.

During the two days’ stay of the vessels at Portsmouth, 17,000 persons visited the Liverpool ferry steamers Iris and Daffodil, which landed raiders at Zeebrugge under terrilic German lire.

The famous Marboys (Hunts) eoekrel has now raised 10,000 for (he Rod Cross. In three years he has travelled 11,000 miles, has been sold 8,500 times, and made thirtylive times his weight in gold.

Clog rations are now being given out in Germany. An Imperial Clogs Oliice has been created, which will deal solely with the acquisition and distribution of wood suitable for the making of clogs.

Watered milk was excused by a dairyman at Swansea, Wales, last spring, under a novel plea. He told the judge that it was quite true the milk was adulterated with water, but that a large snow-fall had fallen into his pail as he was making his rounds.