NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2545, 20 February 1923, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The barque Glenshee lias arrived at Goole from Yucatan with a cargo of logwood, the first consignment of dyewood imported at Goole since the war.

First to arrive in the Caspian direct from Hamburg, a small German steamer has put in to Enzil with a cargo of sugar, footwear, and sewing machines. America’s greatest railroad, the Pennyslvania system, is proud of its safety record for last \eai. 152,000,000 passengers were carried without one being killed. Ancient Roman jars and B.C. 30 gold coins have been found at Ewell in Surrey, and a local museum is to he formed as relics arc constantly being dug up there. A one-armed roadman, who has died, was said by the chairman of (he Winslow (England) Guardians to have done more work with one arm than others did with two.

When cigarettes, pipe tobacco, and cigars are compared, weight for weight, the amount of nicotine absorbed into the system of a smoker is greatest in the ease of the first.

The Province of Quebec has led the way in Canada by presenting £15,000 worth of radium to the University of Montreal tor free treatment of poor cancer sufferers.

“Accidental death” was the Marlebone coroner’s verdict on Sister Euphrasia, an American nun, who was knocked down in Finchley through not knowing the English rule of the road.

The Yeoward liner, Agiiila, which recently arrived at Liverpool, was adrift twenty-four hours while the rudder, broken by heavy seas off the Canaries, was repaired by the crew from boats.

The squeals of a pig gave warning of a fire on board the steamship Liguria as the vessel passed the Seilly Isles. Several cabins in the officers quarters were destroyed before it was extinguished. There are now 300 Allied firms established at Cologne, includng 8 banks. In the three years 1920-22 the house property in that city valued at 130,000,000 marks, passed into the hands of foreigners.