NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2537, 1 February 1923, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Duke of York has ben elected a trustee of the Royal Agricultural Society of England.

A. kiwi —a bird now almost extinct —has arrived in England for the London Zoo. On condition that no caddies are employed, Sunday gV>lf has been sanctioned at Luffness, England.

Five thousand tons of chestnuts for America were recently carried by the liner Homeric!.

This season’s ginnings of American cotton were reported as 3,883,000 bales on September 25.

Walsall Education Committee have made a grant of 30s to a council school for a wireless apparatus.

The Port of Petrograd is to be kept open through the winter by the aid of thirteen ice-breakers, Germany has again introduced sugar rations. Every German is entitled to buy 350 z. of sugar per month. An expedition across the Sahara in caterpillar wheeled motor ears is alluded to in a message from London. The average cost of Government houses in Britain for. which contracts have been made will, be approximately £1,090 each. The gross receipts from excess profits duty in Britain for the period of April 1 to November 18 were £36,046,000. The high cost of living in U.S.A. is 541 per cent, over 1914 figures and 25 per cent, below the high peak reached in July, 1920. British capital amounting to £850,000 has been invested for the purpose of exploiting the water power resources of Chile. The position has been strained in the Rhine shipping trade and 30,000 mercantile workers went out at Frankfurt on the Main. .

Recent exports of rubber from British Malaya are as follows: — July, 21,964 tons; August, 21,316 tons; September 20,238 tons. . While motoring near Sofia, King Boris of Bulgaria, was ambushed by robbers, who took away about 180 leva (£7 10s)—all the king had with him.

The Mayor of Kingston, during a case said if all motor licenses became renewable on the same day it would be an advantage to everybody Parliamentary sanction is to be sought by Ihe London and SouthWestern Railway Company for a new floating dry dock at Southamp-

Wages for employees in British Admiralty dockyards have been reduced by 4s. __ ~ Captain A. E. S. Hambleton, of the giant White Star liner Olympic, is retiring. Five freehold cottages and gardens at West Mailing, Kent, have been sold at £42 each. A new air service has been started between Manchester and Amsterdam calling at London.