NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2834, 15 January 1925, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

Over a million pieces of crockery broken at Wemlblcy, have been used to make roads and paths at the sports "round of the caterers. The Mayor of King’s Lynn the other day carried a sword which was given to the town by King John in the days of Magna Carta. More than (500,000,000 herrings have been taken bv 940 boats dinting the Yarmouth, England, season. The value exceeds £1,000,000. In a recent fishing contest from boats at Deal, Kent, 44 persons caught 5001 b. of fish, the biggest fish taken being a cod weighing 141 b. 10 ounces.

As a thanksoffering for the birth of a son, parents have installed electric lighting at a cost of £IOO in St. Peter’s Cricklewood, London. Two farmers building a comstack at Cumbernauld, Dumbartonshire, noticed a seagull mounting in the air with a large rat struggling in its beak. The gull, after flying for some distance, let its prey fall to the roadway, and made unsuccessful efforts to recover it. Two hundred and twenty-nimi thousand yards of dot'll are used annually to provide uniforms for the staff of London’s Underground Railways. The companies have over 23,000 men on the uniformed stay, and every year about £107,000 is spent on uniforms.

A giant flying-boat fitted with the most complete set of wireless apparatus put in an aeroplane is to be tested at Lytham. It is in itself a complete flying radio station, and, unlike other aircraft, can accomplish direction finding without giving away its own position. In China the floors of ball-rooms are divided into squares, each of which bears as a sign a bird, lisli, or some other form of Nature. Dancers must keep to their own squares; if they fail to do this they are stamped with a coloured disc. The penalty for three failures is a request to leave the place.

Born in the Tower of London, Mr John Charles Pope, of Havefield, whose death was lately announced, was the son of a beefeater, and the youngest of 17 children. He used to recall the difficulty his mother had ia getting so many children to bed. night she paraded them in single file and counted them off as they passed her. More than £3,000 has been subscribed toward the memorial to Mr Willie Redmjond, M.P., who fell in action while leading his men of the Royal Irish Regiment at Messines Ridge. The memorial is to be erected in the capital of his native county of Wexford, with which his family have been associated for many generations. A man lias breakfasted in London and dined in Africa on the same day. He is Mr Alan J. Cobliam, who won the King’s Air Cup this year. Mr Cobham set out from Croydon at (5 o’clock in the morning, reached Madrid at 2.10, and stayed there for half Jin hour, and arrived in Tangier at 7.30. He had flown 1,300 miles in 134 hours. After short rest he flew hack to London.

A half-caste, Donald Stewart, alias. Peta Panapa, aged 17 years, recently sentenced to three months’ imprisonment at Tokoniaru Bay for theft, was before the Magistrate s Court at Gisborne recently, on a charge of attempting to murder a woman, named Paraihia Walker. The charge is a sequel to the trial at Napier of a Maori girl on a charge of attempting to murder her mistress, at Waipawa, by putting caustic soda in her porridge. Stewart is now charged with the offence. He was remanded to Napier,