NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2862, 24 March 1925, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

By means of a code, the description of a suspected person's fingerprints can now be cabled accurately round the world. A witness to the power of humane protest is the fact that there is to ]>e„no Rodeo at the Empire Exhibition this year. A( the beginning of February no case of drunkoness had been before the Linslade (Buckinghamshire) magistrates for a year.

Before spending £30,000 on re-

laying tram lines, Ibe iSourHcuioull Corpora(ion are to discuss the introduction of Irae'klc.-s cars.

In one Hash of lightning liter,, c sufficient ’electricity m suppiv ••very electric light undertaking in London for eight minutes. For descending a huH. shaft' and reselling Charles Real, the St. .folia Life-saving medal has been piesciiled to Joseph Webber, of lllogan, Cornwall.

II was stated at a mheting of ilie London County Council that 12S men over the age of 70 years were employed in the Tramways Department, most of them as watchmen while 420 men were over Ob years.

Potatoes grown in the United Stales may not be imported into England and Wales, on account of i lie Colorado lice lie, an insect pest which was first noticed on pot aloes in 1850, and has since done .great damage.

Every crippled child in the countries of Oxford, Berks and Buckingham is lo he given the best ehmircs of recovery; or, failing that, is to la- trained to be sell .reliant and M-lf-snpporiing by means of a new hospital built oul-idc the cily-ol Oxford. e

There were 10,Ur! fewer employed in Great Britain on January I! 1 than on January 12. The figures on tin’ registers ol the employment Exchanges at these dales were respeefivelv 1,209,701) and 1,279,85-1. On January 21, 1921. the total, number of unemployed was 1,2;) 1,822.

When (he steamship Kury arrived •il GrimsbU from ilamiiiivg in lebinary, John Kracd'i, an. American fanner, was found hanging in his

cabin. A typewriter of a kind was mane l,v an Englishman named Mill in 171-1, lml the lies I practical machine was made by Charles Tlrurhcr, an Englishman, in 1843. The denarius, translated penny m Matthew, xxii, 19 and elsewhere in ihe New Testament, was a Roman silver coin worth about nincpencc of British money. H was stated at a meeting of the Ehlnv Yale Council m January that through subsidence the whole of the village of Bwm had, during recent years, fallen HOt.

In-asking reporters to move from llicir customary seats in the ,jui\l„,x at Shoreditch County Court, Judge Cluer said, “I am sorry lo disturb the only useful people m court. The number of pieces struck in the Mint for Imperial coinage during 1923, was 08,819,823 silver, and 0p,5<)<),739 bronze, a total "I 89,120,502, compared with, the total °! 129,378,8(10 during 1922. platinum is worth nearly six times as much as gold. The bamboo sometimes grows two feet in twenty-four hours. - A motor ear travelling at 30 miles an hour, covers II ieot in a second. • . ... , There are now 20 women holding icnts in the National Parliament oi Finland. . Holv Trinity Church, Hull, ccle--11 in 10(1 its ollOth dedication festival ,-u 'March 10. Soul bend's municipal omictaal, - i,,, s linve contributed Dottoun m Urn relief of tlu 1 rates. Pickwick and Welle were the names of two motorists recent > lined at Hampstead. Asia is by far the largest e<mtmclll, having an area ol over 1 i ,-'tt(MIC square m.ile.