NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2326, 8 September 1921, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

11. M. S. Boadicea, a cruiser, is to be utilised as an anti-gas training -ship at Portsmouth. 11. M. S. Chester, made famous by Jack Cornwall, the boy V. C. is for sale at Chatham.

A blind beggar fined at Bath, paid the fine out of over £53 found in his possession.

The Early Closing Association, London, has passed resolution supporting a fixed date for Easter. A total loss of £18,500 to Leeds Corporation electricity undertaking was caused by the coal dispute. The Paris Municipal Council has decided upon the construction of a moving subway under the boulevards. Motor cars now registered in the County of London number 88,835, while there are 101,707 licensed drivers. Liverpool has begun the development of new motor cycle police patrols for the supervision of street traffic.

London metropolitan police employed during Epsom Derby race week numbered 855, and during Ascot week 524.

At Paddington Baths recently the blind boys at St. Dunstan competed in their own swimming championship. Two first edition copies of Banyan's “Pilgrim's Progress” have been sold together at Southebv s for £‘2,500.

t A Henley-on-Tlmmes tradesman has been notified that a debt due to him forty years ago is now to bo discharged in full. Wolves have appeared in the mountains in the Department of \ar, France. They have not been seen in this district for forty years. ■ The London underground traffic receipts for the week ended July oth were £254,442, making an aggregate from January Ist of £0,444,355. Land at Chiswick for the building of eight homes of rest for local soldiers and sailors has been given In- the Duke of Devonshire.

During tlie present financial year 37 Government rented buildings in London have been given up, the annual rental value being £24,997. Mrs Mary Davies has died at Rochester, aged 94. She was the mother of 14 children, grandmother of 20, and great-grandmother of 10.

Tons of mackerel were caught in Swansea Bay recently. As it could not he dealt with, the bulk of the fish was put hack into the sea. Mr Richard Palmer, parish clerk of Hatherleiglr, Devon, has lived for fil years in one house, and sleeps in the room in which he was born. A two-year-old boy, William G. Sampson, has died in Cheltenham Hospital from lung affection consequent on swallowing a halfpenny.

Canadian and American women teachers and university graudates, to the number of 200, are spending their summer vacation touring Europe. A Strudivarious violin, dated 1692, was sold by auction in London recently for £SOO. Another violin by Andreas Guarnerius fetched £300.'

Following the removal of the restrictions on the landing of Irish

cattle at British ports, numerous cargoes were despatched from Dublin in July. Next year the famous passion play is to be held at Oberammergan for the first time since 1910. It is usually held at intervals of ten years.

In Bermondsey, London, during the first seven months of this year, 2,800 trees were planted. The council voted £1,300 toward the cost of the labour.

Canadian exports of pulp and paper for the month of March were valued at £2,500,000, compared with £2,330,000 in the same month of 1920.

Gold from India for New York and London was landed at Plymouth recently, for New York, to the value of £410,401, and for London to the value of £4,923.

A proposal that candidates for London County Council elections should be allowed free postage has been rejected by the Local Government Committee. The number of national savings certificates sold in England during the week ended June 18th was 824,723, bringing the total to that date up to 404,329,255. Boring for'petroleum sixty miles north-west- of Carnarvon Cape, Wales, is. proceeding, the venture being financed by a small group of Capetown financiers. ..Digging on a farm at Abbeylands, near Navan, County Meath, a labourer has unearthed a small earthenware jar full of silver coins, dat J ing from 1500 to 1001. A suite of Chippendale mahogan;J furniture, which belonged to the fifth Marquis of Hertford, has been sold for 3,100 guineas at Christie’s. Another suite realised 3,050 guineas.

The fisheries production of Canada for the year 1920 reached a value of £IO,OOO. British Columbia’s fishing industry accounted for £4,400,000. Salmon is by far Canada’s most important fish, Ihe lobster coming second, and then the cod, halibut and herring in the order named.