NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2327, 10 September 1921, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Conscientious objectors, numbering 89, who during the war performed work of national importance outside the post office, have been reinstated in the British Post, Office service.

Two horses drawing a harrow, on a farm at Levant, near Chichester, were killed by lightning, and Luke Hayler, who was leading them, was injured by his clothes catching fire. The Bishop of London is being challenged to substantiate a statement made at Lincoln that he knows of a Midland firm employing 1,500 hands, all of whom are teetotallers.

In the arrival at Lisbon recently of the steamship Australpool, a British stowaway of thirteen years of age, giving the name of'Wilson, was discovered. The boy was sent back to Glasgow. Soni" 75,000,000 inland telegraph forms were issued to the public in the United Kingdom during 1920, The number of inland telegrams sent was 06,000,000, exclusive of press messages.

Bella Pontiac, the world’s record cow, owned by T. A. Barron, of Brantford, has set up a new record by producing, during the year ending in June, 207,0171 b. of milk and 1,573.731 b. of butter. t