NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2844, 10 February 1925, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A frizzled-crested canary, adjudged to be the best in the Cage Bird Society’s Show at Mansfield, England, was valued at £2OO. Sir Thomas Lipton stated recently at Toronto, that lie had definitely decided to issue a challenge for the American Cup in 1920. The famous wine crop known as the llosprices de Beaune realised at Dijon recently £8,750 or about £750 less than the previous year. Made in 1288 and lost at the end of the 18th century, an oaken door that belongs to Balliol College, Oxford, has been found in Essex. Etienne Horthy, son of Admiral Ilorthy, Regent of Hungary, was sentenced to four days’ imprisonment at Budapest for taking part in a duel. An opera to be produced in Prague, includes parts for foxes, beavers, and other animals, while there will be a ballet of spiders and butterflies. Millionaire estates in Britain, on which death duty was levied last year numbered ten. The average age at which those millionaires died was GO A . Crossing the street to tell the driver of a motor ear, which had stopped at a busy corner in Leicester, io move on, a policeman found that lie was dead. Backing his mo!or ear into an open lilt shall in a New York garage and falling live storeys with it, Lind ley M. Franklin of Flushing, U.S.A., was only bruised. The name orang-utan is made up of two Malay words, orang, meaning a man, and at an, moaning forest or jungle. The name, therefore, means the forest limn. So strong is the rush of water round the piers of Waterloo Bridge, London, that engineers say the bridge lifts and drops three-eighths of an inch with the tide. English papers refer to the shipment of gold liars worth £4(111,000 from New York to England, the largest shipment since the war, at the request of London bankers.