NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1907, 26 November 1918, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Tim United States will buy jewellery and precious metals of any kind in lots of £2O or more, and will pay at the rate of £4 2s 9d an ounce for gold and 3s 2d an ounce for sil-

The rigid-hand looking forward to a ship’s how is starboard; the left is port. Leeward, pronounced “100-ard,” is the opposite to “Windward” —the quarter from which the wind blows.

A Charles IT. porringer and cover chased Avith birds and (lowers, Gj inches high, 1G77, sold recently at Christie’s, London, at 2G5s per ounce (Comyns), and another, IGBI, at 175 a per ounce (Maitland). • A publican, avlio visited the licensed house he used to keep, av;is lined 10s at Kingston, England, for allowing his lit lie girl, aged lour, Avlm had lived (here and ran in after him, to be on Iho premises.

War badges will be aAvarded to civilian workers employed for at leas! four consecutive months in American Government industry. Service bars aa'Ml he given for employment beyond four monllis. A deero lias been issued prohibits mg notes and cheques of all kinds in Italian currency from being taken out of the kingdom. Travellers leaving for abroad are not alloAved to carry more than 1,500 Italian lire. Couid l\eveii(low, of Berlin, says; —“The beginning of (he fifth year: of the Avar is marked in a large part: of the German press by reflections which are overflowing wit li resignntion, melancholy, and winning.” There arc nmv 7,000 members of the Typographical Association serving in the war, out of a total niembership in England and Wales (excluding London) of 28,583. Five hundred and sixty members have been killed.

The National Security League of America urges sending to Congress Ibis year, regardless of party, men avlio meaturc up to a high standard of vision, balanced judgment, sound common sense, and broad genera! experience.

Chewing gum has been made a part of army kits in France as “first aid to the thirsty," on the ground that, (lie mure 1 gum a man chews the less water ho drinks, and gum is sometimes cheaper than Avater “over there.”

The United States House of Representatives recently passed a Bill authorising the issuance of one hundred thousand 50-eent. pieces commemorative of the 100th anniA'ersary of the entry of Ulionis into the Union. Representative Fuller (Illinois), its author, stated it Avould he done Avithout cost to the Government.