GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2536, 30 January 1923, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Tiie first practical automobile of Japanese manufacture is being- produced at the rate of fifty a month. It is a two-cylinder, three-wheeled machine, with an air-cooled engine, and can travel 30 miles per hour. United States Post Office inspectors, in charging a clerk in the Manchester (Massaehussets) post office with stealing said he was able actually to smell paper money in envelopes. A vehele collided with a fire alarm post in Commercial Road, in London, and attracted four detachments of the fire brigade to the scene. A precisely similar occurance took place in Parquhar Road,. West London. The £5,000 prize in the Dublin Mater Hospital sweepstake has been won by Miss Katie Doherty, of Derry. She is a girl of 25, who since the death of her mother five years ago, has helped her father in his butcher’s shop and mothered her five young brothers and sisters. Candles inside jam jars constitute the only form of street lighting in the Kent village of Greenstreet. In view of the heavy rates the local authorities decided not to light the public lamps. The jam jars constitute the retort of the villagers, and are reported to be likely to have the desired result.