NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2831, 8 January 1925, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Over a million motor licenses were granted in England last year. Warwick Council, England, proposes to sell municipal houses at £375 each. in the past half-year, 100,357 hooks were issued from Finsbury Public Library. After 25 years’ silence, Long Melford, Suffolk, church bells are being rung again. The ages of students at a Street ham evening institute vary from 11 to 70 years. Students who have matriculated at German universities litis term number 68,730. German imports of English coal via Hamburg totalled 200,384 tons for October. About 180 guests attended Faraday House Old Students’ dinner at the Hotel Cecil. On tjand and shingle for street use, London Corporation spent £2,103 in the past year. There were no fewer than 12,413 entries for the recent Crystal Palace Poultry Show, London. The London County Council spends £IBO,OOO a year on the medical treatment of school children. Over five million oranges were landed recently in London by the steamer Freikall, from Valencia. Hie latest addition of the Southwark Museum,. London, is the pump from the historic Marshalsea prison. There are about 1,300,000 allotments in England, which produce 'about 800,000 tons of food every year. There were only 352 men and 1<) women in receipt of unemployment relief in France on a recent date. Harlesden (London) Parish Chur-

ell lias collected 843.780 farthings for its million farthing memorial ha'll fund.

A farm near Cardston, Alberta, Canada, lias maintained an average in wheat of 42 bushels an acre fo* eleven years. Exhibited at a cal club show at Croydon, England, was an animal described as the only Egyptian cat in the country. An Eiffel Tower to be built in Berlin for radio transmission purposes will have a restaurant 155 ft. above the ground. Decree nisi to the unusual number of 206 were made absolute in I lie Divorce Division, London, on one recent day. The house in Doughty Street, Bloomsbury, where Dickens lived part of his married li£e, is to be a Dickens Museum.