NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2841, 3 February 1925, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

In addition to holding the ladies’ championship at law tennis, Miss Kitty McKane lias held tin- ladies’ Badminton championship for two or three years and is also an expert skater.

Falling against a circular saw at Luppitl, near Iloniton, Frederick Pullman was wounded from the chest round the waist to the base of ihc spine. It was neeessarv to in--.i*rt 100 stitches.

The Highways and Parks Cominiiloe of the West Ilam Town Council. London, is recommending the purchase of a 30 h.p. car at a cost of £1,255 for the use of the .Mayor, .hose salary i* £SOO a year. When helping to move a bogie, carrying plate-glass about 20 plates weighing over two tons, fell upon William Boardman, a labourer, employed, a I a glass works, near Doncaster, killing him on the spol. There wore no fewer Ilian 021 applications for the vacant office of mace hearer to the Hackney (London) Borough Council, while for the post of his assistant there were nearly 700 applications. A large eagle. Hying over llarlloar in France, having been shot at, fell and attacked a railway employee. The assistance of three men was required before the man could he rescued and the eagle killed. Commercial road motor vehicles in Great Britain now number 151,000, a liect capable of transporting 21,000,000 tons in 12 months. In 1023 the railways handled 50,000,000 tons of general merchandise.

A woman who lost her reason in 1834, at the ag'e of 18, is still living in a home for the insane at Dun-siir-Auron, France, where she has been for the past 90 years. During this time she Infs cost the authorities over £B,OOO. \ Chines# restaurant keeper in Hamilton, Ontario, was lined £4O for using an ornamental teapot, which, when the spout was turned once, poured tea into his customers’ cups, but when the spout was turned twice poured not tea, hut whisky.