NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2930, 1 September 1925, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

In showing a number of boys how to jump from a hayrick on to a load of lmy Patrick Walters, a well-known Rugby player, of Pontypridd, dislocated his neck and died.

In a report to the London County Council it is stated that in the recent guardians’ election in London, out of 1,698,494 electors only 335,616, or 19. S per cent., voted. Giving evidence at Hull against a man who was committed for trial for house-breaking, a policeman said he found the man wedged between iron bars less than seven inches apart.

The Swedish Parliament has recognised ethical objectors to war, as well as religious objectors. They are to he allowed to do “constructive peace work" instead of military training.

Flora MacDonald. 1 lie Highland heroine of “Bonnie Prince Charlie,” is to have her memory perpetuated by the ruins of her home being scheduled under the Ancient Monuments Act.

A pigeon picked up by a ship in the Bay of Biscay and liberated off Dover alighted six days later on board the Leviathan, when she was about 2000 miles on her way to New York.

A steel magnet loses its magnetism if knocked about or otherwise roughly used. It also loses its magnetism'if raised to bright-red heat. Vibration destroys magnetism in annealed soft iron

The Duke of York has presented to the British Museum the skull of a black rhinoceros shot by him in Kenya Colony, and also a specimen of a. wild pig from the Semliki district, Uganda.

A skylark which built her nest in (he station embankment at The Hague, has brought up her young ones three yards from a railway line over which a hundred trains were passing every day. While lying up corn in a Held 22 years ago Mrs. Kinsey, of Wormhill, near Buxton, England, lost her wedding-ring. It was found by a farm labourer who was thining turnips a few weeks ago. “Children on cycles are a perfect road menace,” said the foreman of the jury at. the inquest at Bournemouth on an aged woman. The jury suggested that all children at school he taught the rules of the road.

Tlu i Raglan Castle ruins are among 1 the most romantic in England. The moat is still partly filled with water, and a little sallyport leads down to it in a way the most suggestive to conspiracies, midnight assignments, and escapades.

The first Lord Kenyon used to invest his savings in land in Wales, often buying in different titles, for, as he said, “if he bought property be would find law to keep it till twenty years’ occupation gave bitu a title better than deeds.” The Aberdeenshire Education Authority has decided to dismiss its married women teachers. In the discussion preceding this decision a member remarked that it was “a scandal to employ women whose husbands could keep them in comfort.”

There are very many islands in the Red Sea, including Ashrati, Giiusah, Jubal, Toal, Shadw am Gumagh, Jeftun, Tiran, Sanafir, Parahkah, at the Sinai end, and the Suakiii Archipelago at the other end. The total probably runs into hundreds.