NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2697, 19 February 1924, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A cheese weighing one and a half tons has been made in Australia for the British Empire Exhibition.

Sixteen persons were missing as the result of a fire which destroyed the Hotel Capstol at Houston, Texas, U.S.A.

Crawling on to the district railway near Turnliam Gi’een Station, Bcrtraw Charles, aged 3, of Chiswick, was electrocuted. Compstall, Cheshire, has decided to allow its council room to be used as a mortuary by the police when needed.

Sixty-eight of his neighbours in Salisbury signed a letter congratulating Mi’. John Bolster on reaching his 100th birthday. Daily air trips between Constantinople and Angora are proposed by a company which is socking a concession from the Turkish Gov-

eminent. The Derbyshire Education Commit! ee has had printed a notice on the backs of scholars’ exercise books warning them of the perils of street traffic. The captain and the ship's cat were the last- to leave the British steamer Somersby (3047 tons), which was wrecked off Cape Finisterre, in the Bay of Biscay. Eight AA’ilton l’ugs were stolen from the belfry of Chertsey Parish Chui’ch. This is the latest of an extensive sei’ies of carpet thefts from Surrey churches. Four girls belonging to the same family were killed at a level cros sing near Ottawa when their motor ear was struck by a Canadian Pacific train. Sir Reginald Blomfield, R.A., lias been asked by the London County Council to collaborate in the design of the proposed new Lambeth Bridge, at a fee of £ISOO. A stoker who applied to the Lambeth Board of Guardians for relief was employed by a North London firm, working 10 hours a day, his wages being 30s a week. Godfrey S. Rockfeller, grandnephew of John D. Rockfellei’, the l’icbest man in the world, is employed as an office-boy by the National Commercial Bank and Trust Company. Stanley Bi’ooks, a music-hall artist was accidentally shot in the foot while loading a miniature rifle on the stage during a performance at the Empress Theatre, Glasgow.

A set of tickets for admission to Vauxhall Gardens, one of the most popular of the metropolitan pleasure grounds in the 18th century, realised £52 at Glendiunings, London.

A first edition of “Tom Brown’s School Days,” the gift in 1857 by the author to Airs. Arnold, the wife of the great headmaster of Rugby, fetched £SO at Sothebys' Loudon. Dr. Takematsu Okadu, director of the Central Meteorological Observatory, T’okio, has been awarded the Symons Gold Aledal for 1924 by the Royal Meteorological Society.

Princess Mary paid a long visit to the Carnegie Trust Model Maternity and Child Welfare Centre at Shoreditch. She kissed Vera Atchison, a little girl who presented her with, a bouquet. A rock. tunnel two miles long, which took . two* years,: to bore, is a notable achievement , in the dev-

elopement of the Holly Bank pil a/ Cannock Chase. Tin* pit will be the largest in the midlands. At a lecture at Wig lon on birds, the Rev. E. U. Savage said he had seen a pair of blue tits destroy 75 caterpillars per hour from goose berry bushes in his garden. A baby girl horn in Ormskirk to Air. and Airs. AY. Burrows can boast of two great grandfathers and two great grandmothers being alive. Her two grandfathers and two grandmothers arc also living. AIY AY. A. Hinehelili'c-Simpson, who represented the Sowerby Division of Yorkshire in the last Parliament, sent his ALP.’s salary of £4OO to the local authority for distribution among the poor at Christmas. AVhen Alker Simmons. 70. was charged at the Thames Police. Court, London, with having begged, it was stated be had in his possession concealed in cotton wool round bis neck and waist, a sum of £2OO odd in Treasury notes. The number of passengers recorded at the Canadian ports of Montreal, Quebec, St. John and Halifax amounted to 103,338 {luring the 11 months ended November 30 last, as compared with 93,853 in the first eleven months of 1922.