NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2374, 31 December 1921, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

It is proposed that 200,000 gold dollars be coined by the United Stales to celebrate the centenary, next April, of Grant’s birth. A suitcase full of narcotics valued at £4,000 was taken by the New York police recently from Nicholas Gravnicks, a Greek seaman. The ordinary expenditure of the United States Government fell off more than £0,000,000 during August, as compared with July. Foot-binding, which resulted in women having feet so small as to be practically useless, has been discontinued in enlightened parts of China.

William George Brown, of Croydon, was found suffering from loss of memory at Mcrslham, but on seeing his mother he regained his memory.

When a thunderstorm shook the ship on which he was travelling, C. Lavier, a veteran dumb for nine months from shell shock, found he could talk.

Students of singing may now' use a new appliance which enables them to practise scales, etc., without, any sound being audible outside the

room. American school-children have prepared 66,000 boxes of Christmas cheer for distribution in Austria; 33,000 in Hungary; 1,000 in the Balkan States. The total expenses of the National Insurance (Health) Acts in England and Wales in 1920 was L nearly £23,500,000, of which adI ministration cost £4,520,000. I Quebec’s population has reached I 2,250,000. The last provincial census, which was held in 1918, gave a population of 2,486,000, compared „ with 2,002,232 in 1911. Oysters arc suffering from a | form of “influenza” which is causj nig much damage to the fisheries. It docs not affect the edible properties of those oysters which survive. I Women have practised medicine for many years, an important book * on the subject having been produc- ( ed in England during the Middle Ages by St. Hildegarde, a woman. ■ The Krupp works at Essen, GerI many, are reported to be resuming I; the manufacture of munitions, and I' it is said that Machine Section No. 2 has three howitzers under construction. Claiming that he can still make |: his foice.heard nearly a mile away, [if «£ieorge 'Sayvyers, 'head porter on the I' and ,Sbu(h Coast rjtt.ilw'hy,' after 51 years’ !; service.' **-■ •„ A dwelling which built- in the fjtdne age and which -stiff contains domestic utehsils, has beep found in East-Prussia? This is the' oldest dwelling thus far found in' Germany. ' f