NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2507, 18 November 1922, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A new record Las been made at Lowestoft, England, by a days delivery of 133' tons of trawl fish, landed by 39 boats. The Dutch Indian Government is endeavouring to find petroleum on the island of Bunjoo, in North East Borneo. A fragment of the Union Jack flown on H.M.S. Victory at Trafalgar, and afterwards used to drape coffin, has been presented to Hvthe, Kent, by Commander A. B. Mansell, R.N. The battle-cruiser Indomitable, which has been sold out of the Navy is not being taken abroad for demolition, but will be broken up by the Stanley Ship-breaking Company at Dover. In the sixteenth century it was customary to put on one side of the blades of table knives the musical notes of the benediction or grace before meat, and on the other side the grace after meat. The coal output at the mines of Great Britain for the week ended August 19, was 5,158,400 tons, as compared with 3,023,200 tons in the previous week, and 4,327,800 tons in the corresponding week last year. Three boys, charged with stealing apples were each fined 10 s at M a report, England. The owner stated that his orchard had been robbed so consistently that he had not had a single apple out of it for seven years. During July, 309 suggestions were received by the management of the London Underground from their staff, one for an electric tieketeancelling apparatus and another for springs for top-deck seats of omnibuses being adopted. A peal of big bells, made in England, which have been placed in a lower overlooking the Memorial Quadrangle at Yale University, after being classified as “works of art,” have been finally declared “musical instruments” by American Customs experts, and a duty of over £3,000 levied on the chimes at the ad valorem rate of 35 per cent.