NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2918, 4 August 1925, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The working power of an ablebodied man is about one-tenth that of a horse. In the sea there is four shillings’' worth of gold in every twenty-five tons of water. Queen Victoria's painf box has been presented by Princess Louise to Brighton Museum. ~ The world's heaviest liner is the Majestic. Fully laden she turns the scale at fit,ooo lons. Three young sharks were recently caught in the Solent by three men fishing from a boat. Disused clothing sold last year by the London Metropolitan Police brought in a sum of £2932. Twenty-seven thousand gallons of water contained in one inch of rain over one acre of land. An inn sign painted on the backbone of a whale is one of the curiosities of Haughton, Suffolk. Teignmouth Hospital has received £1)00 for a new hospital from the town war memorial trustees. The Beregaria, a Cunardor, has made her fastest Atlantic crossing, at an average speed of 23.79 knots. The Marchioness of Anglesey has been appointed churchwarden for the parish of Llanedwen, Anglesey. London's smallest church, St. Ethelburga, within Bishopsgatc, dates back to before the Fire of London, All children must be off the streets of Galt, Ontario, on the ringing of a. bell. This old by-law has just been brought again into force. “Bob,” a thoroughbred Airedale, owned by Mr. G. Wilson, of Kew, Surrey, has been trained to carry his master’s takings to the bank every day. Infants from two weeks to twenty weeks old are in demand in the United States as mannequins for baby clothes, and some are earning an adult wage. With an area about four times the si/e of the Empire Exhibition grounds, London’s latest and greatest reservoir will be ready lor opening shortly.