NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2323, 1 September 1921, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The number of employee* in railroad service on ('las* 1 road.* of the United Slate* was 1,550,008 on, March loth, in contrast to 1,070,543 in Febriiarv and 1,801,822 in Jaiiu-

- , £> During la-l year 42 applications for permission to use fancy names in connection with margarine were received by the Board of Agriculture for Seolhuid. Approval was given in ‘id ease*.

Xalivcs of SI. Hilda are reporied by a Scotiisb party, which lias just returned from a vi*it to the island, lo be departing from their centuryold custom of appointing a “Queen" of the island.

Maple Leaf YII., Ihe new racing molor-boaf Iniilt for Sir Maokay Edgar as the British challenger for the international trophy lo he raced tor in American water* in September, ha* been In urn-lied a I ('owe*.

11 is proposed lo experiment on the cliffs of Dover with a machine costing C(»,00D, which the Channel Tunnel Company lias acquired to expedite the boring of the tunnel should sanction, sooner or Inter, lift given.

Highgale, near London, lias its name from a gate set up there about 100 years ago to receive toll* for llit 1 Bishop of London, when the old miry road from Cray’s Inn Lane to Barnet was turned through the bishop's park. To prove the immense penetrating power* of X-ray*, M. Cmitremoulin, before the French Academy of Science, produced photographs /d human bones which were taken across a courtyard 250 ft. broad and ill rough a thick Jiriek wall. A Bill lias beciisplneed before ilio Italian Chamber of Deputies which would prohibit the importation, manufacture, and sale of cocaine. Offenders would be liable to from one in three years’ imprisonmcni and lines of from 3,000 to 10,000 lire.

A painting which has hung on ilie wall of a room at King's College, London, for many years, has been identified as one of tho best exampl-