NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2610, 24 July 1923, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Many counterfeit florins and half crowns are in circulation in London. Although they are perfect in imitation as to the die, the milling is somewhat defective. The halfcrowns bear the date 1914. The coins have a fairly good ring, but bend easily when subjected to a strong test. Two Vigo trawlers sighted fifteen miles off Cape Silleiro, the sailing vessel Frank H. Adams, which was drifting. The ship, which had a cargo of dried fish, had been completely .abandoned except for a dog which, the fishermen found on board. The wills of two manufacturers whose names are household words, have just been published, and in each case—in that of Mr George Cadbury, the cocoa manufacturer, and of Sir William HaTlley, the jam maker—over a million pounds were left. For striking a spectator in the mouth after a recent Central League match at Ewood Park, Blackburn, the referee, Edgar Rawnsley, schoolmaster, was fined 40s and ordered to pay £2 12s costs and £2 compensation to the complainant, whose lips were cut by the blow. New Zealanders wrote fewer letters last year than in the year 1921, the average being 934 per head of population as against 991in the year before. The tola I number 123 millions, as against 132 millions in 1921. We sent out considerably more parcels, however, the year’s number being approximately 554 millions, as against 50 millions in -the year before. Letters, post- j cards, and parcels added | numbered 182- millions, as against i 185 millions in the year 1921.