NEWS IN BRIEF.
Motor licenses current in the United Kngdom at the end of last August numbered 975,973. The number of cars in use was 314,/(>9. While sorting out potatoes, a Lincolnshire wiman found that a proturberance of one of them was caused by a half-sovereign piece. Setting out on a lecture tour on French fashions in America, a wellknown Parisian ’ actress has taken with her forty-eight gowns and as many hats in thirty-four large trunks. The average price realised at Devonport House for pheasants, shot by the King and presented by him to the Hospitals of London Combined Appeal, was £3 4s (id a brace. During the counting of votes at Llangefini, three threepenny bits were found in an Anglesey ballotbox, there being a local superstition that a threepenny bit with a ballot paper brings luck. Frank Smith, a Northallerton railwayman, was beating with a hammer his two young sons in their beds, when his sister, awakened by their screams, saved them from death, Smith’s body was later found on the railway.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2532, 20 January 1923, Page 1
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173NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2532, 20 January 1923, Page 1
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