NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2596, 21 June 1923, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A pike weighing 181 b. recently caught in an Essex lake, had inside it an unopened bottle of lemonade. Four cases of sleeping sickness, one of which proved fatal, were reported at Birmingham recently. Perpetual hot baths, in which restless patients sleep, is one form of treatment for certain mental diseases. The number of' unemployed in Germany in receipt of relief increased in January from 85,000 persons to 144,000. An official estimate puts the total number of persons holding British Goovernment securities as high as 17,000,000. New York undertakers have passed a resolution protesting against the remains of Tutankhnmun being disturbed. American “specialist” musicians receive as much as £4O a week for playing in the most popular London dance orchestras. A church built in 1500 at Horningham, near Wnrminister, is claimed to be the oldest Congregational Church in England. The birth rate for England and Wales for the year 1022 was the lowest on record, save for the war years, 1915 to 1010. Dr. McFarland, of Lincoln, England, collapsed in a patient’s bedroom after drawing up a prescription and died of heart, failure. It takes at least six years to produce sufficient seeds of any new type, of wheat to test it for milling purposes. If it fails then, the variety is discarded. Bril a in can speak by telephone to France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Holland. In America the range of the long-distance 'phone is over 4,00(1 miles.