NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2820, 6 December 1924, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

When ;i hoy '>l’ 11 was charged at Torquary lately with stealing' two shillings, it was said that he placed ninopenee of the amount in a hospital collecting box.

W hen the P. and (>. liner Malaya was recently on her way to Australia some fifteen birds dropped on the deck exhausted just before the vessel reached Gibralter. Of 1551 applicants for council houses at Northampton, no fewer than 1,304 are ex-service men. For houses of the non-parlour type, tenders are being accepted at £4OO. At the funeral of Mr John Buttress, at Clmdleigh, Devon, the hell rope which he hud pulled in the parish church belfry as a ringer for over half a century was buried with him. During the demolition of some old buildings at Yarmouth, one room

was found to lie entirely papered with correspondence between a merchant in Holland and a local fish eurcr. Many dishes, such as the liastld of Lincolnshire,- buttermilk bread, popular in Ireland, and Lancashire potato cakes, are obtainable in London restaurants, although foreign dishes are made a speciality. If the sound of Bow Bells is broadcast people all over the British Isles will he entitled to lie'called “Cockney.” No Londoner can now claim this distinction unions he was horn within sound of the bells. The phrase “The Thin Red Line was used by Dr. AY. IT. Russell, the war correspondent, to describe the third Highlanders at the battle of Balaclava, because they did not take (In trouble to form into square: It forms the title of their regimental magazine.