NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2754, 5 July 1924, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Smoking is permitted at a Sunda v Rible class for men, held at St. Mark’s Parish Hall, Surbiton, England. A cow jumped over t he bonnet of a motor ear al Kingston ami -mashed one of the ear’s headlights. A South African company is engaged in the manufacture of fertilisers. poultry foods, etc., from locusts. A clergyman who looked in at St. I'aneras fancy dress ball was, by mistake, awarded the second prize. There are ninety-live different kinds of Brussels-sprouts. 120 lands of lettuce and 104 varieties of carrots. Tipcats found in the tombs of Ancient Egypt are exactly ~indict lo those played with by the boys of to-day. Along the Norfolk and Suffolk coasts 30 acres of England disappear annually as a result of sea erosion. Coventry own- one motor cycle to .every Burly-one of its population, London one to 110. and Glasgow one to 307. Future employees of the London Underground Railway will be- shown 0 (ilm entitled “Courte-y Always Pays." London’s tube and underground railways together with buses, carried 1.34f>,000,00(1 pa-congers last year. A volcano in Bolivia is being offered for sale or rent. The announcement declares it to be capable of furnishing enough steam to develop electricity energy equal to about 4000 million kilowatt-hours a year.