NEWS IN BRIEF.

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

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Latest returns show that the membership of the National Union of Railwaymeq has dropped about 70,000 —from 437,830 to 38(1,lit). An offer was recently made to Bishop Welldon (Dean of Durham) to associate himself with the control of a matrimonial agency in London. A dead female pincmnrten, the rarest of the wild creatures in Britain, has been found by a shepherd on n mountain side in the Lake Country. There are 74 goods stations in London. Fine second crops of hay have been cut in Hertfordshire. Unemployment relief has cost Lincoln Guardians to dale £8,500. Paris is the only city in the world that provides public baths for dogs. No fewer than 170 places in Britain have no train service on Sunday. A gallon of alcohol can be produced from a bushel of sweet potatoes. Petrol-driven railroad coaches are proving a siicee-s in the 1 nitcu Stales. There is only do per cent, a- , much freight moving by water a> in 1014. In Spain a woman’s mantiln is held ns sacred and cannot be -old for debt. Coal weighing over 12,000 tons U used weekly by the Great Eastern Railway. Railway companies in Britain numbered between 200 and 300 before tlie war. Soft-floored cells for “drunks" are being fitted in some London police stations. About 02,400,000 shori tons of stone was quarried in the United Stales in 1021. Afore than £IOO a day lias been taken by Torquay at the chief bathing station. Margate Rotary Club lias raised nearly £1,400 for an X-ray installation at the local hospital. More [ban 2.000 ions hay, cut but not stacked, has been spoiled by floods in Lincolnshire. Women justices of the peace have had a special course of training in their duties at Oxford. In 15,555 street accidents in London during April, May and June. 150 persons were killed. Agoutis, little brown animals native in Guinea, are born with practically.a full set of loath. Six married sisters, whose ages totalled 450 years, have had a “reunion” at Spalding, England. Mr George Edgcomc Dunford, of York, has just- celebrated his diamond jubilee as a journalist. Five generations of one family were recently prosoni ai a cro<|iici match at WestelilTc-on-Sca, Essex. Having increased the roll by ;>.- 000 during the past 12 months, the Boys’ Brigade (England) has 05.000 members. Statues and portraits of the ex-Kaiser and his family have now to he removed from all public places and buildings in Prussia. Materials from demolished cottage.' erected in 1003 have been utilised to build the new parish hall at Solden (Kent). From one hough of a plum tree broken off by the weight of fruit at Rockland, Norfolk, 1201 b. of plumbs were picked. The last remaining moat in London was that round the Bishop of London's Palace at Fulham, which was recently filled in. Chimney sweeps in many parts of Germany do their work by lowering a brush on a rope from the top of the chimney. A New York radio station is open day and night, to give free medical advice to people in ships at sen that do not carry a doctor. Radio hurdy-gurdies are now seen in Chicago, on which men give concerts at street, corners, taking a collection from listeners. A new use for wireless has been found by a great store iu Philadelphia which Ims fitted all its delivtry vans with a radio outfit. Thirty-eight steeplejacks made a record at Wilmslow, in Cheshire, by straightening a chimney 210 ft. high, and saving it from collapse. Germany imported .1,400,000 tons of English coal in July, in addition to 40,000 tons of Dutch coal ami 00,000 tons from the Baar district. A Guildford, Surrey, firm of eoaehbuilders have been showing a wooden wheel with leather-covered pneumatic lyre, made by them in 1.847. Lundy Island, in ilie mouth of the Bristol Channel, now has a rector for the first lime since the Reformation: there l is a population of 40 inhabitants.