NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2799, 18 October 1924, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

.Airs. Isabella Sinailes, the postmistress* of Ilalmsloy (Yorks), who has just retired after 18 years’ service, succeeded to the office which her father took over in 1875.

It is estimated that about £lO,000,000 will be spent by 30,000 Australians and New Zealanders in visiting "Wembley, including £4,000.000 on the cost of travel. The United States Shipping Board has erected a large aerial on the tower of Bush House in London, for business communication between London and America.

Babies in perambulators are now “parked” outside many big American stores. An attendant gives (be mother a numbered cheek and takes care of the infant.

Mir. 0. S. Stairmand, a bailiff of the Blackburn County Coijrt, who is about to retire, has not been absent from a sitting of the Court in the course of his 48 years’ sor-

American engineers working under the Near East Relief Commission have at last freed (he old Greek city of Corinth from the curse of malaria that has laid it waste for centuries.

A School of International Relations has been founded at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, in memory of Air. "Walter TI. Page, the great American Ambassador to Britain.

Tile first railway excursion to Scotland was in 1840, the journey from Derby to Edinburgh taking 36A hours. A previous trip, in 3840 was partly by rail and partly by water.

Seeing a figure siiting on the cocks near Barberton, in the Transvaal, a man 800yds.’ aw ay fired ex peering to kill a baboon. Unfort ■ unately "he killed a Wesleyan minister’s daughter.

The house at Pieve di ('adore in which the great painter Titan was born, has been proclaimed a national monument by the Italian Government, as has the birthplace of tiic poet, and dramatist. Count Vittorio A 1 fieri, at Asti.