NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1950, 11 March 1919, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A complete kinema record of the scenes in connection with the Peace Conference will be made by the U.fS. Government Committee on Public Information.

War bonds worth £33(1 were publicly burnt at Middlesborough, England, recently, this free gift to the nation being made by the school |

children of (he (own. “.Accidentally killed by a rocketslick falling on his head during the fireworks display in Hyde Park, on November Uilh,” was the coroner's verdict on a London schoolmaster.

The house where Mr Lloyd George was horn in Manchester is to be handed over to the Manchester Corporation by Sir Grahem Wood, who bought it at a recent sale.

Paper textiles are destined to play a prominent part in (he future, superseding, to a certain extent, the familiar libre textiles, more particularly of wool, cotton and jute. President Wilson, speaking by wireless telephone in his study at the While House, directed six army aeroplanes over Washington, the pilots manoeuvring according to his orders.

On the ground (hat by refusing to marry she had broken the conditions on which a ring had been given to her, an English munition girl was ordered to return it or its value.

Southampton Council has decided to spend (he interest from £.10,000, an armistice thankuffering from Alderman William Beavis, on a yearly treat for all lime for elementary school children.

In Irving to avoid a foxhound which jumped into the road, Joseph Leighton, chauffeur, was killed at Wellington, England. The motor ear, containing a coffin and a dead body, was overturned. The lingo aerodrome from which the Gothas raided London, at St. Denis B est rein, near Ghent, was crisscrossed by ploughs before the Huns left it, ruining its surface, hitherto like a billiard table.