NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2629, 6 September 1923, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Treasure estimated at £1,000,000 \s said to be lying in the Wash. It belonged to King John, and was lost in 1217.

Dame Janet Stancourt Wills, Ramsgate’s Lady Bountiful, who presented the town with a motor fire engine, is now adding a new fire escape and tender to the equipment.

Ruins of a city believed to be at least 4,000 years old have been discovered in Mexico by a Scottish mining engineer.

The, Scriptures, printed in 558 languages are circulated all over the world by the British and Foreign Bible Society. ‘fßoads a few years ago were easier for horses than they are today,” says the secretary of the National Equine Society.

“Post Office servants must not gamble or bet,” according to a recent order issued by the Postmaster General, .in lEngland. About 10,000 floating mines have been recovered and dismantled since the war, according to the Marine Ministry of Denmark. Rain falling from a clear sky, a meteorogical phenomenon, was reported on March 21, near Granthan. The shower only lasted a minute. The St. John Del Ray Mine, 150 miles west of the Rio, follows a vein of gold until the workings are a mile and a quarter below the earth’s surface. The manufacture of “soft” or teetotal drinks in America, one result of prohibition, has increased the demand for sugar enormously in that country. Bees which had swarmed on a tram standard descended and attacked the conductor, driver, and passengers of . a tram car in Pretoria, South Africa. Traffic Avas held up. for a time and one passenger was so badly stung that he died. The insects,were eventually driven ofp by smouldering rags. A fox found at Shinfield (Berke)' hotly pursued by the South Berks Hunt, entered a house and after being prevented from going upstairs, was about to.make itself at home on the doormat AA’hen one of the runners of the hunt arrived. It Avas captured alive and proved to 1m a. fine dog fox. , When freed again, it took.refuge in a neighbouring garage, Avhere the. hounds effected a kill.