NEWS IN BRIEF
The whorl of a motor-cat came off at the top of a hill at Sutton ami eon tinned to run down-hill for a1m m i 220 yards, until if stopped ex--neilv opposite a garage.
After using l a small cottage as their church for 100 years the Wesleyans of Quinton, a village near Northhampton, have bought a tiny wooden building on wheels.
Nearly two million ehildren attend Church of England Sunday schools. Choristers number 320.755, while there are more than 40,000 church bell-ringers.
The base and foundation of a Homan villa was unearthed at Folkestone lately. Two pieces of Samian ware, a Constantine coin, a piece of Celtic pottery, a bronze brooch, many Roman black cooking pots, and a number of hones were also dug up.
When the inmates of Stockhav Farm, Highampton, Devon, were a-sk-op a burglar entered the bedroom of the occupier, took keys from his trousers .pocket, unlocked drawers and decamped with a large sum of money and the deeds of the farm.
Bournemouth motor-coaches are to he provided with wireless sets and loud speakers during next summer. It is proposed that when dance music is being broadcasted the motor-coach will stop to enable the occupants to dance on wayside greens. Titehfield Abbey, near Fareham. converted and renamed Place House at the time of the Dissolution, is at present being put info a state of preservation, under the Ancient .Monuments Act. Recently the tombs of four abbots have been discovered there, Air. Harry Watson, the famous spit attendant at Simpson's, in the Strand, has retired offer 40 years’ service. For nearly every day in nearly fifl years lie, lias roasted .35 saddles of mutton, 10 beef sirloins and 10 loins of pork—nearly a millioiAjoints.
Mr -Tames Ranker has been over 50 years organist of the Abbey Village (Chorlev, Panes.) United Methodist Church. To practise he used to go to the church, wit It his brother ns his blower, at 4.30 a.rn. the pair afterwards going to the cotton mill a I 0 o'clock.
Mr. T. Dodd, of \Y ye (Kent), still retains his title ns the ehampinn rhubnrd g-rower of t!ie district. For the .list year in swvessmi lie has carried off the first prize for flip host stick of onidonr-gTown vhnt)fivd. His specimens - ihi> yenr were 41 inrdies in length and symmofric.nl in shape. A safety "ns jet lias boon introduced in tin l United States. Throuo'ti a safety stopper controlled by a metal strip extremely sensitive to <** farmers in IcTiipovniuro it is sible to have the flowing when it is not intentionally ignited. Accidental asphyxiation i- tlms made impossible.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2743, 10 June 1924, Page 1
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437NEWS IN BRIEF Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2743, 10 June 1924, Page 1
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