NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2535, 27 January 1923, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

sor Castle, has died aged 67 after 45 years’ service, during which time he has sung at every Royal function held in St. George’s Chapel. Kidmore End (Oxfordshire) war memorial hall has been erected entirely by the voluntary labour of the villagers. The original telegraph instrument made of wood, 3ft, high and 2ift. wide, invented by S. F. B. Morse in 1835, has been sent, from New York to Rio de Janero, where it will be on show at the exhibition.

A complete flying machine, carrying its pilot at 100 miles an hour and yet capable of being packed up in a quarter of an hour, in five metal tubes or carrying eases, is the latest technical triumph of German air design. In Great Britain, the “Employment of Women, Young Persons and Children Act,” became operative on July 1, 1022. The age of young persons employed in the iron and steel industry, is raised from 14 to 16 years. A Californian automobile club offered- a prize to Boy Scouts who picked up the greatest number of puncture-causing objects from the roads. More than 711,000 sharp objects were gathered altogethex during the contest. Two thousand houses," 122 shops, 41 roads, a golf club, a laundry, 3 licensed houses, and a vicarage are included in the Bournemouth estate of the Earl of Malmsbiuy which is to be put on the market early this year.