NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2720, 12 April 1924, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The British Broadeasting Company has retransmitted American wireless concerts, thus bringing them into range of crystal sets in Great Britain.

The most dangerous part of the British coast is between Flaraborougli Head and North Foreland. Next comes that between Anglesea and the Mull of Cantvre.

An ad valorem import duty of 20 per cent, on private motor-ears and Id per cent, on molor-lorries is imposed by the Finland Customs rales for 11)24.

During fifty yenr.~ a.- a Thames watemi.m, “.Jack” Spencer, a Chelsea patrol boatman, lias covered 65,520 miles between London Bridge and Chelsea. A wonderful touring ear has just been completed for a wealthy American. It has armchairs which can be converted into beds at night, a kitchen with oil stoves, a refrigerator, cupboards, and even a wireless set.

Spiders and woriulike animals of enormous size, infusonae, crabs, sea urchins, shells, crustaceans, starfish, turtles, and millions of other living things of ail kinds find their food in the equally varied plant life of the deep sea. Compelled to disrobe in Dorking casual ward a woman was found to be wearing seven skirts, six coats (including a soldier’s tunic), nine stockings on one leg, eight on the other, and a proportionate supply of underclothing. Great forests of seaweed cover the bottom of the ocean and reach from the greatest depths to the surface. in these forests there is life more diversified than in the primeval forests of the tropics.

Aberdeen recently saw a strange sight, when 150 Salvation Army converts threw into a brazier burning in a busy street their “idols,” including pipes, tobacco, cigarettes, powder-pulls, and piaynig cards.

There is no such thing as a born ernuinai, and it is impossible to maintain to any great extent. Childish crime is, as a rule, simply an over-abundance of constructive energy, blocked or misdirected.

The Bankers' Clearing House in London, which settles up ail the cheque transactions of the various banks, dealt with £36,627,592,000 last year, a decrease of £533,809,000 compared with 1922.