NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2895, 11 June 1925, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Ulster was the best recruiting ground for the British Army in 1024. There were 241 recruits for every 100,000 of population. London icanie next with 22!) per 100,000.

A rare watch, which shows the day of the month and the phases of tlii l moon, was recently sold in London for £l2 10s. It was made for George lIT. by a Quaker, Daniel Qua re. Dr. Arthur R. T. Loughurst, a Crimean and Indian Mutiny veteran, aged 04, died in England recently. He was superintendent of the hospital in which Florence Nightingale worked. Passengers on the Canadian trains are asking for dictionaries to aid them in solving cross-word puzzles. These books will therefore be supplied in cars already equipped with libraries. A Nottinghamshire family of 35 persons, consisting of father, mother, four sons and their wives, a daughter, her husband and 23 grandchildren, left for Canada, a lew week's ago.

Bought by a Rotherham dealer for 2s, an emerald ring was later -old by auction in London tor £1450. It is now believed that this wa* one of the jewels belonging to the Russian Royal family. A. signed blank cheque was sent to Coventry magistrates by a motorist summoned for leaving his car in the street, who asked for the amount of the fine to be lilted in. It was filled in Cor 10s.

Seven hundred dflieers of high lank belonging to the old Austrian Army are on the verge of starvation. One field-marshal recently died of sheer starvation, after selling' even bis medals to buy food.