NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2609, 21 July 1923, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mountain peaks 1,630 ft. high have been discovered under the sea 100 miles off the Californian coast.

Insurance premiums collected in weekly payments in England, amounted to £37,000 in 1921; lapsed policies of this grade of insurance causes the fore-fixture of some £5,000,000 a year. After two vain attempts to hang them, two Persian outlaws were shot dead at Meshed in the presence of a large crowd. A gallows collapsed and an attempt to hang them from’ a tree was equally fruitless. During a storm in the Cannock Chase district, a large poplar just outside Penkridge village was struck by lightning which, passing through the roots smashed a water main and caused a flooding of the highway. While Dr. Lendrum, a woman doctor at the Royal Free Hospital, at London, was riding at Redkill, she was thrown from her horse and fractured 1 both her legs. She was taken to the Royal Free Hospital for treatment.

It has recently been stated that alcohol can be made from acorns. When shelled they contain about 40 per cent, of starch, which can be readily saccharified and then converted into alcohol. The alcohol, it is; suggested, can be then used as a motor fuel.

Japan claims the world’s greatest business woman in Mrs Yone Suzuki who is a widow said to be worth £30,000,000. Sihe owns fleets of steamers, factories all over the East, and has offices in Britain, America and on the Continent. Three missionaries of Bath City Mission have asked that their Milaries be reduced from £230 to £IOO a year. Their request was refused. ‘lt would be a disgrace to Christianity to grant their application,” said a speaker at the annual meeting of the mission. Buildings of historic interest are the . subject of a wonderful work now being published by H.M. Stationer - Office. There will lie three volumes for each English county, and the set is expected to lie completed about the year 2034. The first volume appeared in 1011. Burglars broke into the German Embassy, in Borne, recently, with the intention, it is believed, of stealing certain documents, but were discovered by the staff. After a struggle. in which a German and one of the intruders were wounded, the others were arrested.