NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2743, 10 June 1924, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Southam Village, Warwickshire, was presented with a German gnu and 12 German rifles as war trophies. The gun ha- been i brown into the River Sowc, and the lilies have disappeared unaccountably.

The Ear) of Holslmry, K.C., has entered the dressmaking and millinery business. He is the son-in-law of; Lady Duff Gordon, the famous dress designer, and is to be one of the directors of a company just registered.

'The National Police Court Mission employs over .160 missionaries, who attend more than 400 Courts, and deal with 100,000 eases annually. Since its inception 47 years ago the mission has handled over 3,000,000 cases. Coxwain John Swan, of the Lowestoft lifeboat, who has been associated with life-boat rescue work for over 50 years, lias just retired. Coxwain Swan lias since 1911 been instrumental in saving no fewer than 258 lives.

Last year 1625 million passengers travelled in the motor-buses, trams and underground trains of London. The buses ran 118 million miles and the trains 57 million miles. The journeys per bead of the population were 414. It was not realised bow gigantic was the quantify of water wasted by defective taps until New York levied a tax of two dollars on the owner of every leaking fitting. In two years forty thousand million gallons of water were saved. Tn some Japanese temples may be seen suspended coils of rope woven from human hair. Such ropes, made of hair sacrificed by thousands of women and girls, were used to hoisi stone and limber when the temples were built, and are preserved as relies.

Mr. John Fuller, master painter and decorator, of Scarborough, who lias died, aged 74, was a guard on the Darlington and Stockton Railway when guards wore red coats. Thieves who bad paid iow prevvious visits broke into the United Methodist Church, Mitcham. No money lmd been left on the premises, but a. bottle of communion wine was emptied. Bn ill magistrates refused to nceept an artificial leg. which cost 12 guineas, as security for payment of a fine of Ills, on a young Sent named Stewart found drunk a few hours after leaving gaol. A family of fourteen are living in a three-roomed house at Gldhill, Staffordshire. Tin' mother and daughters sleep in the bedrooms at night, while ibe faiher and sons occupy them by dav. Because the failure of the (dectrie light during an operation at Grimsby Hospital plunged tile operaling theatre into darkness recently the surgeons now wear small electric lamps on iheir foreheads illuminated from independent batteries.

Ken I Connlv Council have passed a by-law which will render the offenders liable to a penally of £5 when, on any public coach, or other public carriage; they shall use any noisy insHumenl, or make any outcry, or (brow any money to children.