NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2508, 21 November 1922, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A Czech glnssmaker has managed to make glass which can be used as a hammer and flung on the ground without being damaged. Thieves stole over £540 worth of platinum while it was being heated in crucibles over a furnace in a temporary vacant Paris laboratory. Every year for 150 years, a tomb in Sutton, England, parish churchyard, has been opened by the churchwardens, in accordance with an old will. Some 1,240 surplus officers in India have been demoblised and 360 other officers have been warned that they may be surplus to requirements. The Xinji Novgorod correspondent of the Isvestia complains that there were more newspaper correspondents at the fair this year than merchants. Five hundred bunches of grapes each weighing between two and three pounds, have been yielded this year by the vine at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor. The Kockfeller Foundation has presented the sum of £48,000 to the Hygiene Committee of the League of Nations to assist it in its humanitarian activities. There is practically no unemployment in Germany. The trade unions with a membership of about 6,000,000, reported only 35,000 unemployed altogether in July. A Lyons professor lias submitted a report to the Academic des Sciences in favour of stocking ponds with young eels with a view to the destruction of mosquitoes.