NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2956, 31 October 1925, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Thirty French quarrymen employed at the 'British ammunition dump at Dannesnear Etaples, were remanded by a Boulogne tribunal on charges of stealing a quantity of high explosives. A mother-in-law club has been organised in Orange, New Jersey, with the avowed object of banishing unseemly jokes on the music hall stage and elsewhere about a much maligned relationship. Tourist traffic in New Brunswick during the past summer left nearly £600,000 in the province, an amount almost, equal to the total provincial revenue. Approximately 70,000 tourists visit pel the province During the past season the Canadian Pacific Kailway used on all its 'lines approximately 6,500,000 ties. The woods used include British Columbia fir, hemiook, tnmarac, jack pine, spruce, maple and birch. Professor Paul Deblel, the French surgeon who rushed in an aeroplane from Paris to Athens to attend the late Knig Alexander of the Hellenes when the latter was suffering from a monkey bite, has died in Paris. A mental examination of 50 prisoners in the Hobart gaol showed that 30 had the mentality of children, the mental age of one man aged 20 being recorded as oi, and that of another man of 35 as of a child of five. Two men who were unsuccessfully pursued through the churchyard of St. Thomas of Canterbury Fulham, dropped a package containing lead believed to have been stolen from the roof of the church or the school adjoining. The quantity of gypsum, which, after coal, is Nova Scotia's chief mineral industry, quarried last year was over 300,000 tons, compared wth 256,000 tons in the previous year. It is expected that the total for 1924 will far exceed that of last year.