NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2727, 1 May 1924, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Lochluichart estate, extending to about iiUjUUU acres, of which over 20,(Ki1l acres are deer forest, is to he sold, the Marquis of .North aiupton having decided to dispose of it.

Before entering an institution on becoming blind, William Huberts, of Newiyii, Cornwall, who lately died, went to a local undertaker and made all arrangements for his funeral.

A mansion at Wrexham is to he opened as a miners’ iiome lor North Wales. There wiii be a bar, smoke looms, a billiard halt, library, and recreation rooms for miners’ wives and children, Judge Cluer, to a man giving evidence at the Shoreditch County

Court: “I must, certainly write that choice sentence in my notebook: ‘I found it impossible to get the refuge from the pipe?’ “Skyserapei'-s” waste time, according to one expert, who estimat es that the time taken to reach the thirtieth floor would equal that taken bv an express under-ground train to l-each a spot a mile distant. Mr. A. Bloekmnn, mayor of Hastings (England), is to entertain the whole of the children in the elementary schools (.'500.1)) in the Alexandra Park on May 20, the function (o he known ns “Children’s Day. In the British Foreign Office the Government has effected an economy by installing separate switches for the electric lights. Hitherto all lights have been so arranged that-no single light could be switched on separately. Mr. Leonard Peskett. naval architect to the Canard Company, has died at his residence. Craigmin, Blundellsands. He had been connected with the design and construction of the Campania, Lusitania, Mauretania, and Aqiiitania. Last year 24,000.000 passengers passed through Victoria underground station in London. This number Ims grown from 17,000,000 in 1014. Tt is equal lo the population of Greater London going through the station three times. Blankets owe their name to Thom - as Blanket, a Flemish weaver who lived in Bristol about 1340. He used a piece of rough unfinished doth which had been east aside, to wrap himself in one winter night. His discovery made him rich. What is probably the longest literary sentence occurs in Raskin’s “Modern Painters.” Hen* is to be found a sentence of <519 words without a full stop, and eighty intermediate signs of punctuation, together with four clauses it; brackets. The ancient village church of Canewdon, in Essex, which is to be restored, is supposed to owe its original existence to Canute, as it stands oil the historic ground where he encamped before the great battle of 1016, in which lie was victoriousl.