NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2535, 27 January 1923, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mr Joseph Stilliard-, senior lay Jerk of St. George’s Cliapel, Wind-

The Port of London Authority is to spend another £14,000,000 on improvements in anticipation of better times. At a Goudhurst (Kent) “old folks tea” given by ex-service men, the combined ages of the 60 guests was 5,000 years. Germans have to work fourteen, days each year to'pay their taxes; in France the taxes call for twentyeight days’ work. Twenty-three stationmasters in uniform attended the funeral of Mr David J. Morse, stafcionmaster of Stalham Station, Norfolk. A burning cigarette end is said to have started the big (ire in Naples Harbour which enveloped two warships in (lames. Ruins of a mysterious town covering many acres and nearly 2,000 years old have been found on an island ii\ Lake Superior. The Soviet steamer Vladimars Russanoff has arrived at Yarmouth, England, from Archangel —the first Soviet boat to enter the port. The oldest plaice found in the North Sea was thirty-eight years; but one aged over fifty years was recently caught in the White Sea. i During the month of October the oil output in Baku aggregated 268,000 tons, as compared* with 250,000 tons for the previous month. Built on the lines of a tank, a French motor-car will climb obstructions, go through, snowdrifts twenty feet high, and skate on ice. Nearly 80 years ago the Chinese junk Keying made the journey from Hong-kong round the Cape of Good Hope to London in 477 days. A bullock was being driven.through the street at Coalville, in Leicestershire, when it ran into a doorway, mounted thirty stairs and entered a solicitor’s office. Rats are fought relentlessly on London’s Underground Railway; when one is seen special rat catchers are sent out after it. The rats come out for the grease on the rails. Chrysanthemums measuring thirteen inches across the bloom wene recently exhibited in London; the smallest varieties shown were only the size of a sixpenny-piece. The Roman bath in the Strand has been bought by the rector of St. Clement Danes, Dr. Johnson’s old Church, and will shortly be opened for inspection of the public. A British Columbia mine transports its ore from the pithead to the waterfront, 11 miles, by an aerial endless cable 22 miles long the longest endless cable in the world.