NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1902, 14 November 1918, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

While engaged in turf cutting in a bug near Purtadown the workers came on a keg of butter many feet under the surface in a perfect slate of preservation. Experts stale that it must have been lying there for at least 200 years. Five thousand pennies in a canvas hag were tendered for a Liberty Bond at Philadelphia the oilier day. The bond was bought by a lifleen-year-old child who had saved his pennies for months in order to be able to buy a bond. The Postmaster-General of London states that since the beginning of the year literature filling on an average about (iOO hags a week has been handed in by the public at pos|-ufliccs for free transmission to sailors and soldiers; That an automobile owner is responsible for injuries sustained by' a guest during an automobile ride is llio decision of the New York Supreme Court. It awarded £BOO damages (o a woman hurt while riding in the auto of a friend. Of I be 27,000 children who attend Ihe elementary schools under the Fast Suffolk County Council (Eng.), 12,318 arc subscribing members lu the Wnr Savings Certificates. During the past twelve months 31.2(12 certificates have been purchased. Over £30,000,000 has already been spent by the United States on the construction and repair of I*reneh railroads in connection with (he American lines of communication, etc.; 1,727 locomotives have been purchased, and 22,(130 freight cars and 3t)9 Inns of sled rails. A new comet was discovered on dune .121 li by Mr Reid, of the Cape of Good Hope Observatory. It is a fainf, round nebulosity.” Bs position was: Right ascension. 9h. Him. 3(is.; declina I ion, Bdeg. 10 min. south. It was moving due south at Hie rate of 48niin. a day, In Liverpool an average of 51b. ol good pig-food is removed weekly by means of a separate collection of kitchen refuse from each of 5,000 houses. I| is estimated dial Great Britain could feed 500,000 to 750,000m0re pigs if all kitchen refuse wore saved by the householders. In 1910 the mines of Arizona produced gold, silver, copper, lead, ami recoverable zinc valued at £38.101,234, and contained in bullion, ore of chipping grade, and concentrates. J he \ alne of the output, when compared with that of 1915, increased £19,999,904, or 110 per cent. Over 10,000 Servian and Greek women and children are being looked after by the American Red Cross in t iu* Balkans, which has cultivated 30,000 acres, says the commissioner, Major Ryan. An American Red Cross village is also growing up at the gates of Pisa for refugees from Venetia,