NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2502, 4 November 1922, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Rather than desert the eggs on whieh she was sitting, a hen was recently burned to death in. a poul-try-house fire in Nottinghamshire. Captain Bowyer, M.L\, told a meeting of his constituents at Leigton Buzzard that since 1918 he has answered .10,000 letters and postcards by return. A Chilean wireless operator made a new speed record for receiving at a recent competition, taking 49 words a minute in Continental code by wireless. Horatio Bottomley was among the 000 prisoners present at a piano recital given at Wormwood Serubbs Prison one Sunday recently by Mr Waller Rummell. Immigration into Canada for the month of May, 1922, totalled 11,199, of whom 5,972 were British, 2,866 from the United States and 2,361 from other countries. Airships built of a new light metal are spoken of for a service between New \ ork and San FraiicLThey would carry 500 passengers at 90 miles an hour. Baring the month of May there catered Western Canada from the Limed Stales total of 1,200 settlers, 108 of these being farmer.", and 484 women and children. Thev brought with them £55,400 in money and effects valued at £19,040. As a schoolgirl travelling between Haddington and Longdiddrv was opening a carriage door a gust of wind blew the door back, and she was thrown on to the line. Bee-stings, as a cure for rheumatism, are having quite a vogue in England. The curative effects of the stings are attributed to the formic acid they contain. There was, says a report from London, a decrease of 2.11,424 in the membership of the Genera! Federation of Trade Unions last year, the figures now being 1,371,034. Five young children who had swallowed toy whistles were in the Xcwcastle-oii-Tyne Infirmary recently. flic whistles were mostly like those fixed in rubber dolls. An order lor 20 new locomotives at a cost of more than £200,000 has been placed with the North British Locomotive Company, Glasgow, by the Caledonian Railway Company. Over 2,000 London Boy Scouts marched lo St. Paul’s one recent evening for the first annual parade of the “Wolf Clubs” connected with the London Diocesan Boy Scouts Association. In competition with Continental firms, Messrs Cammed, Laird and Company, engineers of Sheffield, have secured a £IOO,OOO contract for all-steel wagons for two Indian railways. The Hungarian Government has decided that a new issue of postage stamps shall bear the head of a boy, and the Buda Pest Academy has selected Michael Kemeny for the honour. ' A feature of a (lower sale at Stamford, England, in aid of funds for the local hospital was the playing of an Italian piano-organ in the streets by the Mayor, Councillor Pepper. At an inquest at Richmond, Surrey, on Miss Matilda Matecham, who died at the age of 77, it was stilled that she was for several .years .English governess to the children of the ex-Ivaiser. The total amount of grain handled in the port of Montreal this year is approximately four million bushels greater than that of last year. Up to -July 33,262,864 bushels had been handled. In less than 30 hours the 1,496ton steamer Whitworth was drydocked, painted, refloated and loaded with 2,000 tons of coal on the Tvne, which is claimed lo be a record achievement. An English hoy of 11 years smoked nine cigarettes in 90 minutes at a picture house. The next morning lie was found dead in bed. A verdict of death from tobacco poisoning was returned. A locket containing some of the hair of Charles I. and a piece of the Order of the Garter he wore when he was beheaded realised £2lO at the sale of the contents of Cassiobur.v Park, Hertfordshire.