NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2542, 13 February 1923, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

“Q, Sury,” was the address on a letter delivered at Kew, Surrey. A 138 years old chapel at Sheeriess is to be closed.

Only 16 per cent, of the inhabitants of Poplar are vaccinated. China has magazines for women, but they are all edited by men. Motorists are warned by the English Automobile Association to go carefully along all roads (especially tarred “water proofed” roads) covered with fallen leaves, as such roads cause dangerous “skidding.” Turks originally came from Central Asia. The Turks of Turkey are only a small part of the whole group and Turkish is spoken over large tracts of Russia in Turkestan and in Yakutsk on the shores of the Ai'etic Ocean. Gabriele D’Annunzio who recently sustained severe injuries by a fall from a window of his palace has joined the Third Order of St. Frances. He is not required to give up his present occupation but he will have to wear the monk’s robe on special occasions, and to recite certain prayers daily.