NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2383, 24 January 1922, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Powerful motor-cycles, with sidecars able to carry if necessary four policemen, are now part of the equipment of all the Paris police stations.

Great Britain has now refunded the expenses, some £33,000, incurred by Norway in connection with the interment of British sailors and soldiers during the war. The / Spanish Minister for Labour is about to submit to the Cabinet an order under which the railway companies will be obliged to use exclusively coal got in Spain. There has been a deei’ease of over £16,000,000 in the value of Swiss exports for the first half-year of 1921 from the figures for the corresponding period of last year. Folkstone air raid fund has been closed. Nearly £B,OOO was paid to sufferei’s from raids. A balance of £IBO will be handed to the Folkstone Hospital. The Constitution of the newlyreconstituted Central American Republic, foi’med by the -federation of Guatemala, Honduras, and Salvadoij came into effect on October 3rd. Dudley Town Council has decided to sell 300 houses, provided during the war, at suujs varying from £3lO to £4OO. The present tenants are to have first option of purchase. Wine made in South Australia this season l’eached a total of 7,893,345 gallons, a record output, and the value was estimated at £993,323, as against £643,738 last year.

The Belgian Nord Railway Company is expei-imenting with a new signal system by which the chief of the train service organisation communicates with the signal cabins by wireless telephone. - Belgian Senators, hitherto unpaid, in revising the Constitution, have voted that they should in future receive 4,000 francs (£l6O nominal) per annum, the third of what is paid to Deputies. v In consequence of the great increase in home production of sugar and cereals, Italy expects to save £3,000,000 on sugar and over £19,000,000 on cereals which would otherwise have had to be imported. Although the number of unemployed in Italy rose on September Ist to 463,108, there is no serious apprehension for the winter, as Government works are expected to absorb a great deal of labour.

Two hundred and twenty-one vessels, with 770,000 tons of cargo, passed through the Panama Canal in September. This was 6 per cent, less than the August total, but more than in the other months since April. A man of 85, while on his way to catch the train which was wrecked in the Batignolles tunnel, Paris, on October sth, lost his memory, and was taken care of by the police until his friends began inquiring for him.

Tottenham Distinct Council, having obtained a revenue of about £I,OOO last season by means of municipal dances arid catering at these functions, has resolved to convert the public baths into a hall suitable for such gatherings next winter.

Rose Reeve, a girl of ten, living in London, Ontario, lias proved so amazingly efficient that she has been accepted as a student by the Western University, and will take a coui’se in French, Spanish, German, English, physics and chemistry. An inquiry has been sent out by the inspector of taxes for the Euston (London) “A” district, and received by a large number of railway guards, asking for information on the amount received in tips for the half-year ended October sth, 4921.

UntiL a few weeks ago, when a shoe hand was convicted for drunkenness, no resident of Highanx Ferrers, Northamptonshire, had been convicted of an offence in the town for over six years. A five-yeai-s’ record of no convictions was ended last year by a non-resident.