NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2438, 8 June 1922, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

Delegates from 26 nations are to meet at Copenhagen in August in a conference arranged by the World Alliance of Churches for the promotion of an international union of churches. A group of 200 farmers and technical experts, half of them from Canada left Toronto recently bound

for Soviet Russia, whore they will assist in the economic rehabilitation of the country. An Englishman has purchased a necklace from the Austrian crown jewels that once belonged to Maria Theresa for £IOO,OOO. It contains 196 pearls, and weighs eight pounds avoirdupois. A man and woman at Waltham in England, befoi-e going to see a wedding, placed some Treasury notes in an oven for safety. Their son came home and lit the tire, and the notes were burned up. World’s records for live and ten miles were created by Sig Haugdalil, of Norway, at Daytona Beach in Florida, in a special racing mot-or-ear. He covered live miles in 1 min. 51 l-ssecs., and ten miles in 3min. 56sees.

- A postcard posted near Reading, England, in May, 1905, has just been delivered at Sunningdale, in Australia, after 17 years, and as the card bore only a halfpenny stamp it was surcharged two-pence.

Due to the lower fares which came into force at the end of last year, the London County Council tramway receipts for the week endding week of 1921. ing April 5 were only £92,244, against £103,424 for the corresponThe honour of killing the moose with the antlers of the record spread of the season 1921 in New Brunswick goes to Lewis Hawkins, of Philadelphia, Pa. The animal was killed in October and had antlers spreading 64 inches.

For the first time the Canadian Pacific Railway has carried snow as freight to be utilised in Calgary’s winter carnival. The snow, which was specially needed for the skijump, was transported in freight cars from Lake Louise.