NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2835, 17 January 1925, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Wooden water pipes made from hollowed out trees and laid in the reign of Charles 11, have recently been unearthed in Park Lane. London. Eight thousand articles, ranging from a pair of crutches (o a. Colt revolver have been dealt with by the railway lost property office at. Wembley. The expenses of the 1,446 candidates of last year’s general election to Britain, totalled nearly a million sterling, or rather more than 1/4 a. vote. When called upon to present a life-saving certificate to a deaf mute Charles Harwood, the Lord Mayor of Leeds made use of the deaf and dumb language. It took eleven strong men to transfer a 20ft. python from one cage to another at the London Zoo. The snake was found to have grown over 4ft. in two years. Two peasants who fought a duel with pistols at Granjal near Lisbon, ended their violent quarrel by two simultaneous shots, which killed both of them. A well-known Parisian sent the < lief at a London hotel an order for a Christmas pudding, adding: “As I have only one small son', I presume 201 b. will be big enough.” Petly-Officer Yonlden, of Torquay, who steered the Vindictive alongside Hie Mole at Zeebrugge has been presented with a gold- watch by the Mayor on behalf of residents.

A cake presented to Mrs Florence Kelly, a. social welfare worker at a New York dinner to celebrate her 25 years of good work, disclosed, when cut open, a, cheque for £3,000. A white topaz weighing no less than 001 b. and large enough to make 205,120 engagement rings of one carat each, has been placed on exhibition in the famous Field Museum in Chicago. Five hotels are being built in America, at a, cost, of £15,000,000 by a company which declares that the hotel business lias never been so prosperous and that workers never saved so much money. A Latin Bible called the Mazarin Bible because a copy of it was found in the library of Cardinal Mazarin, was the first book printed by Guienberg. It was printed between 1450 and 1455.