NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2806, 4 November 1924, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

A newly-married couple recently Hew from London to Southampton to join the Aquifania before she sailed for Mew York, and their wedding breakfast was served in I tie air during the flight.

It is said that (he old house next door to the Roman bath in Straw Street, near St. Clement Danes Church, London, was the toll or custom house of the parish, and that a foil in kind was taken there from each basket of fruit on its way home from the river, lienee -the. rhyme “Oranges and lemons.’’

Food weighing 2,000 tons is now arriving in England every week from the Continent by the Harwich-Zee-bniggc train-ferry by means of which railway trucks cross the North Sea without being unloaded.

The total number of unemployed members of the British Amalgamated Engineering Union was returned in August at 18,812, this being a deemisc of 1081 ns compared with the pi reeding month’s liguivs. “Fortunately, w:- have tied advanced to the slate of Socialism yet where the parent has no responsibility over his child,’’ said Colonel Bowles, magistrate at Enlield. A father asked’ for permission to thrash his son. He was under the impression that it was against, the law for him to thrash Ids children.

impatient users of tin- telephone ire 40 lie punished in Paris. Calls t!re to In 1 nutnheredCas tluA reach Ihe exchange, where they will he leait with in proper order. In the event of a subscriber losing his temper and rattling the receiver iiook, Ids turn will be placed at the aid of the list.

Captain R -I. <). Montagu, who. icecnllv sold Lynlon Hall, Norfolk, has purchased the Rhortgrove estate, Newport, Essex; from the widow of the late Sir Charles Meyer, a member of the lie Peers Diamond Company. Shoutgrove has a palatial mansion which was Imilt in the reign of Queen Anne. A streak of philosophy is to ho found in most people and it only requires a little encouragement to bring it out (says the Otago Daily Times). A witness in the Magistrate’s Court under cross-examination by Mr Sinclair, said that he lost £12,000 “in one pop’’ when some manure works were burnt out. “But for that you would be a wealthy man?” “I might not be. I might .still hove finished up in the Benevolent.” Mr Sinclair: “Oh, surely not.” Witness: “You never can tell. The wealthy man to-day may be the poor man to-morrow.”