NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2415, 8 April 1922, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A blind soldier from South Africa arrived in London at the end of January, bearing a wreath in memory of the late Sir Arthur Pearson.

Chet-ldn<r by radio with time checks in France reveals, so authorities say, an error of 100yds. in Australia’s latitudinal position on all maps.

President Harding recently advocated that the immediate deepening of the St. Lawrence be undertaken jointly by Canada and the United States.

The chaulmoogra tree of Siam and Burma, which yields the oil successfully used in the treatment of leprosy, is being introduced into America, and a permanent supply of the oil is assured.

A Harrow linn’s tender at £38,248 for the erection of 60 houses £654 per house) for the Wycombe Corporation, was selected from among 54 tenders received from all parts of England.

Meerschaum pipes, hugely an Austrian product, are again being sold in England. Most of this meerschaum comes from the mines near the Black Sea, which have been worked for 1,000 years. * ,The French airmen, Captain Augieras and Major Lauzanne, to whom the Academy of Sports has just awarded the Grand Prix, have carried out a number of fine flights in the Sahara desert.

Influenza is spreading rapidly in Sweden; there are I*4oo cases in the army, and 200 in the fleet, while some deaths have occurred among post office, telephone, and tramway employees. An ex-soldier living at Renfew, who had been completely dumb for five months, recovered bis speech after being knocked out in a boxing bout. On recovering, lie exclaimed, “Who’s winning?” Stocks of coal amassed . by the French Government during the war for use by controlled shipping, have been sold off: at extremely low.prices, the average price paid at Cherbourg being nine shillings a ton.

In accordance with the Pence Treaty, Germany lias not only to deliver ocean-going vessels to Belgium, but also a certain number of “Rhine boats,” the first of which lias now left Rulirort for Antwerp. We understand (says the Clutha Leader) that a breach of promise case of much interest is pending. A fashionable lady, having obtained a change of venue from Invercargill, will appear at Clinton on Thursday, April 6th. The legal fraternity and witnesses will be much in evidence.