NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2886, 21 May 1925, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Miss Batten. of Bournemouth, lms !)00ii licensed fo drive a motor olmralmno. Five concrete houses costing: £IOO eneh liave been erected in a fortnight by unskilled labour near Manchester, Tooth brushes are to tie supplied to school children at -Id. each by the Warwick County education committee. Mr Mathews, member of the London County Council, is urging the use of London squares as children's playgrounds. A policeman at North London Police Court said that he climbed I.2ft. up a holly free in order to keep watch for burglars. A wedding in which the bride, the bridegroom, and hriddsmaul, and the man who gave away the bride were doctors took place at Hendon recently. West Drayton's new Baptist. Church was erected at cos! price l,y a builder, whose son drew the plans and whose workmen accepted reduced wages. The Government Sierra Leone has sent a donation ol £;>00 toward the funds which are being raised for the foundation of the Boss Institute and Hospital lor lYopical Diseases. The Bight Hon. T. B. Kerens, of Hull, who recently gave £2r>(),()()() towards the establishment of the Cnivcrsitv College at Hull, lias now provided about toward the cost of the new assembly hall. When a deaf man applied for a. public-house license at ( oulville, Lei rest orshi ro, n solicitor snitl s»pj)li('juit would not likely supply two pints when asked for one. fhe license was granted to the mans wife. There arc twelve permissible trade names for various kinds ol lamb skins used in fur manulnature while rabbit skins have as many as thirteen approved descriptions. In one season over 1/,0(h).000 skins were sold at the London fur sales. There was no part of Knglnnd where overcrowding was so great as on the south hanks of the Thames, said the Bishop of Southwark recently, in dedicating the new Isolation Hospital at Inched to the Boyal Waterloo Hospital. Hr. Burt Green Wilder, who died recently, bequeathed bis brain io Cornell Cniversily for scientific purposes. The collection ol brains ;it Cornell, most of them prepared by Dr. Wilder, is one of the tines! in the world. The ordinary bluebottle lly moves its wings about 330 times to a second. This great speed is exceeded bv the bee, which vibrates its wings at nearly twice this rate. The wing's of the average Imlterlly move at the rate of nine times n second. On condition that .'it) acres are reserved for an open space, the Ministry of Health has continued the order for | lk* acquisition, by the London County Council of land at Hendon. Little Stanmore and Kingsbury for o large lonising scheme. Tin* deepest spot in the ocean has been sounded in the Pacific, about 30 miles off the Japanese coast. A Japanese warship has reported that the lead sank to a depth of 32.U4-! feet, more than six and one-fourth miles, without touching bottom. According to the Toronto Directory the city’s present population is 0-11,781). With the inhabitants of the suburbs given as .S!).()2!), the population of Greater Toronto is 730,50!1. The city is expected to hove o million population in fifteen \ cars' time. Presenting 0.8.-li. medals to six naval men of the crew of the vessel engaged in salving bullion from fbe Lanrentic, sunk early in (lie war. Admiral Thesiger said that of the £3,01)0,000 worth of bullion that went down with I lie ship only 23 gold bars remained unrecovered