NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2445, 24 June 1922, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

As part, of the United Slates economy plan of the Government’s Navy minelayers will, it is reported, be-used to lay bouys. Silk is the cheapest form of clothing material in Madagascar, where even the poorest women are clad in this material.

The Mayor of Buffalo has refused permission to an English girl who wanted to walk across Niagara on a tight-rope. The remains of what is probably the first. Christian church in Britain were disclosed by excavation in North Hampshire. During 1921, 2,845 deaths in the United Kingdom were the result of street accidents caused by vehicles, as compared with 2,837 in 1920. By winning this year’s Boat Race Cambridge has now 34 successes to its credit as against Oxford’s 39. In 1877 there was a dead heat.

Certain companies of actors were permitted in the seventeenth century to call themselves “servants” of the reigning Briish sovereign. In Germany a good cook can be hired for nine shillings a month, a footman for six shillings, and a servant for four shillings. The Marquess of Zetland, a British peer, derives his title from the old name of the Shetland Islands, formerly the property of his family. Evan Owen, who has retired after being postman at Whitland, Wales, for more than forty-six years, walked 171,450 miles during that period.

Mrs Mary Ann Carr, who has died at Portsmouth, at the age of 85, was born on board the Victory, where her father was steward to the officers.

London’s famous lake, the Serpentine in Hyde Park, is “fed” by the Thames, and after leaving the Park, becomes part of the main drainage system.

The use of the word “mug” as a slang word for the face, is probably due to an old-time habit of making drinking-mugs to represent a human face.