NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2534, 25 January 1923, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

'Muffin girls have appeared in London. In London there are now -even teetotal Masonic lodges. The average age of a treasury note is from 250 to 300 days.

Bermondsey, London, is spending £33,700 on road work. Kentish mole trappers are receiving £5 a hundred for mole skins.

The Paris municipal tax on servants lias raised £140,000 in six months. The Preservation Fund of St. Paul’s Cathedral now totals over £40,000. Thousands of legs of pork were kept in cold storage for Christmas in England. A present of 101 b. of safety pins has been sent to the Bogner Children’s Hospital. Strap-hanging in the London Tube is considered a healthy exercise by some doctors. The whole staff of the United States Post Office is to have its finger-prints taken. Wandsworth, London, has 18,445 persons receiving relief, and Greenwich 18,370. Numberless young women work 12 and even 13 hours a day in the Japanese silk industry. The first prize for the best couple at a Crystal Palace dance was won by a father and daughter. A floating dock to accommodate ships up to 60,000 tons is being constructed for Southampton. A Tooley Street provision merchant, Mr Arthur J. Rowson, of the Fourth Avenue, Hove, left £144,605. Two men went to a Belfast house, overpowered Mrs Margaret Lindsay, ‘ cut off her hair, and stole 265.