NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2748, 21 June 1924, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

An otter was killed by a motor car near Pwllheli, Wales, recently. The otter was a mile from a river dried up through drought.

The London Sunday school choir held its summer festival at the Crystal Palace recently. There was a choir of ‘5,000 children and 3,000 adults. “I could almost wear mourning for the rest of my life for two dogs that died of distemper,” Lord Knutford told the House of Lords the other .day.

Children in mediaeval England had no toys, says an expert; dolls cannot he traced farther hack than the reign of Queen Anne In the early eighteenth century. William Slarzicker, grocer, of Croston, Lancashire, was recently found lying dead wearing a pair of wireless headphone. For some time he had been troubled with heart attacks.

No fewer than sixteen per cent, of the recipients of the British unemployment dole arc men between twenty'and twenty-four years old, according to a recent analysis ol the statistics.

It has just been discovered that an old paper volume lying Tor many vears neglected in BMcliill ITiiversi.tv Library, Montreal, has in if a precious early edition of one ot Sh a kespen r’s pi a vs. " A Chinese- carpenter can look at a place that has to he repaired and go hack to his bench, and cut the hoards so that they will fit exactly, lie has trained his sense of sight to give him exact knowledge. The London Metropolitan Police Athletic Association has 10,000 members. At lather Court, the headquarters of the Mounted Constabulary, there are fourteen tennis courts and three cricket pitches.