NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2848, 19 February 1925, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mr Alfred Collins, 01, a Crimean and Indian Mutiny naval veteran, died at Portsmouth recently.

The authorities of Mecklenburg have decided to sell their prison, as it has had no occupant for years. Thieves who broke into a girl’s school at Plymouth, secured only 1/- collected in lines from juvenile delinquents.

Kill'd Tower is being painted by 100 men. II takes a total of 400,000 hours 1.) cover tlie tower with (lie necessary 30 tons of paint.

During one storm in 1017, more than 0,000,000 tons of rain fell in two and a-half hours over an area, oi 50 square miles near London. Part of the old G.P.Q. site at St. Martin’s le Grand has been acquired foi £lOl,-100 by the City of London for street-widening purposes. Harry Cozens Mace, aged 12, has qualified at Liverpool College for residence as an undergraduate at Oxford, perhaps the youngest, case on record.

Captain [Tarry P>. Norton, a member of the Bournemouth Town Council, gave 10 - each to about 2,000 oh' age pensioners in the town as a Christmas box.

A man who has been in prison at Milan for several years for fraud, has discovered that a Government bond which he owns has won about CdO.OOO in a Stale lottery. Cotton, so long regarded as the most suitable material for wear in hot climates, is now largely being discarded for fine wool by the people of the Oriental countries. Celluloid is a mixture ol camphor and nit ro-cellulo.se, a kind of guncotton. These substances are heated and compressed. The product is highly inllammahle. The Canadian wool clip (his year •a ill realise £13.0(11),000. About half of this will be used at home and most of the balance exported to the Knited States. Silver is indispcnsiblc in photographic. chemicals, and a good authority estimates the quantity used in the manufacture of motion picture films at about ]5,000,0000z. The glaze on pottery is really a kind of specially composed glass, ground line in water, spread over the vessel and lived again in an oven. While lead, borax, lime and Hint are used.