NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2752, 1 July 1924, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Four postcards posted in Germany 22 years ago to an address in London have just been delivered. A cross about 750 years old lias been discovered in the excavations at St. Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury. Over 71,000 people visited the birthplace of Shakespeare last year and 37,000 visited Anne Hathaway’s cottage. About .18,000,000 tons of coal arc consumed in London annually, 5,000,000 tons being used for domestic purposes. A school of: agriculture lias been established by the Near Last Relief at Phillippi, the ancient Macedonian city. A monument was unveiled near Geneva on May 3, near the spot where Byron sal when composing “Childe Harold.” • A 'sitting, of eggs was the prize won by a girl at a Leighton Buzzard whist drive for being the longest sitter at one table. A Chelsea resident has advertised in a local paper for a “second hand” grave to hold two or more in Brompton Cemetery. The Dover Town Council, by 14 votes to 7, has decided that lawn

tennis may be played on Sundays on the public courts. A license for the London Zoological Gardens has been granted# one of 1 lie conditions being that spirits must not be supplied to keepers.

Two French professors have invented a radiographic instrument which permits a cinematographic film to be taken of the beating of the heart.

Two primitive dug-out boats have been found by fishermen in the sand in the River Foyle, between Strnbane and Londonbevry, Northern Ireland.

Jane Mulholland, an Indian ‘Mutiny survivor, celebrated her OOtli. birthday at Boston, Lines., recently. During the Siege of Agra she gave birth to a daughter. A hay cart served as a hearse at the funeral, at Tnvorosk Churchvnrd, East Lothian, of Colonel Sir John Hope, Bart., of Pinkie. Sir John died suddenly in a train. Emeralds, the rarest of precious stones, are gradually becoming scarcer, the depress of fashion fit late having caused a large inroad upon the alregdv low slocks ex isting.

At a women’.- freedom meeting; at Tedlington, England, at which I lie independence of woman was emphasised, a man’s lml was borrowed for the purpo-e of making a collect ion.

The Caledonian Market at Islington is the largest market of its kind in the world, and i- sometime- attended by between dll.1)00 and fiO, 000 people. There are over ISdO stallholders.

One of tbe few remaining worker- of TToniton lace is Mr-. Robert A.glnnd, who is in her 90th year. She has been associated with the Beer, (Devon,) Congregational Church for 87 years.

Tn the Parish of Aston, Mi-s Oddie has' taught in the Sunday school for DO years, while in the, parish of St. Paul'-. TTeniel Hempstead, Miss Susan Robinson has I might for over ;>0 years. To fulfil the condition- of their appointment hv the Medway Board of Guardians a- relieving officers for Rochester and Gillingham, two single young men imi-l marry within twelve months.

The owner of a hnngahnf at Penlon Hook, whose lease ol the land had expired, moved the entire structure on a barge to ( hertsey. Tlie bungalow was loaded and unloaded with the furniture inside.