NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2460, 29 July 1922, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

The American Mutual Liability Insurance Compay reports that 87 per cent, of accidents are due to burns, handling materials, and other non-mechanical causes. Illicit whisky stills in the mountains of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia, U.S.A., are said to number 10,000, about 30,000 people being concerned in the industry. So much interest are women taking in sports to-day that a'Women’s Amateur Athletic Association is being formed in England to regulate and control their energies.^ Blowing white dust down mine tunnels to increase the illumination is the latest scientific aid against “miners’ blindness” a disease which costs England £1,000,000 annually. Food prices in South Africa are

only 19 per cent, above those of July, 1914; and in the United States the increase is 36 , in Australia 40, and in Canada 42 per cent. Notre Dame Convent in Montreal, the oldest teaching institution in the Province of Quebec, founded in 1690 by the Venerable Marguerite Bourgeoys, has been totally destroyed by fire. A powerful flame, which will burn under water and cut through a steel plate three-quarters of an inch thick at twenty inches a minute, is the invention of a French engineer. Chola women, of South America, are stated never to remove a petticoat, clean ones being added as required; some of them are credited with as many as forty of these garments. Although the King owns one fully-licensed inn, the Feathers, at Darsingham, on the Sandringham Estate, as Duke of Lancaster, he is ground landlord of a number of licensed houses. Those white stains which so often spoil the band or ribbon round men’s hats are still a mystery to the makers, who say the quality has nothing to do with it; the best hat is as likely to be effected as the cheapest Two monkeys at the London Zoo recently stole from bank holiday visitors half a dozen mirrors, one purse, a veil, a leather wallet, three odd gloves, one pipe, one watchchain, and one handkerchief. The naval salvage ship Racer arrived at Londonderry recently to resume the recovery of the remaining £1,000,000 of bullion (£2,000,000 already recovered) from the Laurentie, sunk in January, 1917, while an auxiliary cruiser at Lough Swilly, Donegal. James Harold Johnston, who was employed at Tipton electrical works, Staffordshire, was killed hv driving a screw into a fuse box. The screw caused a short circuit, there was a blinding flash and Johnston fell to the floor with his clothes in flames. He had received a violent electric shock, and died in hospital. Sir Alfred Mond has stated that in the week ending May 5, 31,273 persons or 19,2 per cent, of the population of the borough of Poplar, London, were in receipt of relief from the Poplar Board of Guardians. In Stepney, 13,571 persons, or 5.4 per cent, of the population, were in receipt of relief. Born in Great Britain and the widow of a United States citizen, Mrs Annie Daniels, 52, who has recently lived in Manchester, is held to have technically no nationality. Through her marriage she is no longer a British subject, but as she failed to register within a .year ot her husband’s death, she has also forfeited her citizenship of the United States.