NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2934, 10 September 1925, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A well-known German sportsman is just completing the task of riding 1250 miles on the bonnet of a motor-car travelling at a good speed. He embarked on this as the result of a wager. In his thirty-five years’ service as boatman at the Hyde Park Station of the Royal Humane Society, Mr. Albert Green has rescued about 150 people from bathing accidents in the Serpentine.

Cleaning the streets of England and Wales, including watering them, costs more than £4,000,000 a year; the collection and disposal of refuse calls for an expenditure of nearly twice as much. The thrones used by the King and queen at the opening of the Empire Exhibition are to be handed to the Rev. J. W. P. Silvester, vicar of Wembley, and will be kept in the parish church.

Princess Mary, who is colonel-in-chief of the Royal Scots, Britain’s oldest regiment, lately visited the 2nd Battalion at Colchester, inspected a colour party, and chatted with the wives and families of the men.

At a wedding in a northern town in England, not long ago the bride and bridegroom and everyone taking part, except the clergyman, were named Robinson.

Tenders have been asked for a new lift in the Washington Monument, to travel at 250 ft. a minute. The old lift had a speed of 100 feet a minute.

The extraordinary sight of a strawberry field in flames was seen at Holbeach, England, recently. A spark from an engine ignited the straw between the rows.