NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2628, 4 September 1923, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Pensions, benefits under health and unemployed insurance schemes and aid to the unemployed by means of the poor law, will’cost England £151,750,000 in benefits during the year. The first colliery to be operated entirely by electricity so that it will need no chimneys, no furnaces, and will cause no smoke is planned for Sherwood Forest. While talking to a pupil in the play ground before the school, Mr Arthur Harris, headmaster of Eastfield Road school, Enfield High Way, suddenly collapsed and died. Fourteen members of the editorial staff of the Italian Socialist paper Avanti have been arrested on a charge of participating with Signor Serratti, the chief editor, in a conspiracy against the State. “Official godmothers,” who will help in renting large empty houses and reconstructing them for the accommodation of slum dwellers in Bath, are wanted by a women’s committee in that city. Among London’s aliens Russians are the most numerous with 29,768, followed by Poles, French and Germans. Stepney has the largest proportion of aliens, 15 per cent., of any metropolitan area. Music to lighten law cases was the humorous suggestion of Mir Justice Romer recently. He said the well-known songs “Good-bye,” and “Parted” would be most suitable for use in the Divorce Court.

Irak is sending a gift of an Oriental carpet to Lady Elizabeth Bow-cs-Lyon, the Duke of York’s affianced bride. The gift is to be purchased through a fund inaugurated by the Times of Mesopotamia. Women who wear outdoor shoes with narrow straps and high heels are liable to develop weak feet; one remedy available is the ankle corset, made of stiff black material, boned and laced up tightly. Apples, pears, beans, poultry, oysters, frozen ■‘meat, bacon, flour, and .'bars-of copper-making, helped to make up the 10,000-ton miscellaneous cargo of an Atlantic liner which recently reached Liverpool from New York.

Summoned for working a donkey with a sore foot, Charles Alfred Jennings, of Rochester, said the animal would open two doors, enter the kitchen and eat bread and butter from the table. He was ordered to pay 4s costs.

A passenger in a suburban train in Paris found a parcel on the rack which contained £4,000 in Treasury bonds. He immediately handed the packet to the police. The parcel was forgotten by an official of the Ministry of Finance. It was reported by the police at Brandon (Suffolk) Licensing Sessions that there had been no convictions for drunkenness in the division for six yeai’s. The chairman observed that he thought this was a record for any town in the country. Montreal theological colleges have purchased Egyptian vases and sculptured figures dated 3,000 years before the reign of Tutankhamen, which were collected by Professor John Garstang, the head of the British archaelogical work in Palestine.