NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2958, 5 November 1925, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

Married twenty-four years, a woman of Arizona has just had her twenty-fourth child, a girl. Only seven are living. Beekeepers should avoid buying combs with imperfectly shaped cells, as the bees ignore these in depositing their honey. Wasp stings are jipt to be more serious if received on the neck, face, front of the wrist, tongue, and inside the throat.

For refusing to pay lid excess fare at Mansion House Station, London, a passenger was fined £2. He had been drinking. Lions are troubling the Northern Transvaal farmers and carrying off cattle. 'One farmer 'lately killed four in half an hour

Kite-flying is forbidden over the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedral, and of London’s historic buildings. Artificial limbs provided for exServiee men by the British Ministry of Pensions now number well over 37,178, only the best being supplied. From only 2,500 a quarter of a century ago, the population of Edmonton, the capital of Alberta, one of Canada’s prairie provinces, has become 05,378. Fivepence was the reward given to a man named Samuel Knowles, of Lye, near Stourbridge who restored a wallet containing £2OO to its owner.

Mr. 11. Booking won first prize for knitting socks at a North Wield Show. His wife obtained third prize, while his daughters entry was passed over. A committee of the Glasgow Corporation has recommended the building, at a cost of £IOO,OOO, of a new Kelvin Hall, to replace the one recently destroyed by fire. On the suggestion of the Socialist members the Festiniog Council in Merionethshire are to destroy four German guns presented to the town as a war trophy. Hewn out of solid rock, the basin of: the new graving dock at Esquimault, Vancouver Island, is 1150 ft. long and will, when completed, accomodate the largest ship afloat. New under ground railways in London to deal with goods and parcels traffic are projected. They will cost £32,000,000, and provide work for 5000 men during three years.

Following an 1150 custom of a free meal on St. Bartholomew’s Day, hundreds of buns were lately distributed to school children who ran round the chapel at Sandwich, Kent.

Wholemeal bread is seriously rivalling the popularity of the white variety in England. Some users claim the wholemeal loaf goes farther, a great point in the ease of large families. Ten children, 00 grandchildren, and 56 great-grandchildren are the living descendants of Mrs Ellen Watling, a widow, at Mercury Gardens, Romford, who was eighty a few weeks ago.

Forged Treasury notes have been circulating in such numbers that in one restaurant in London, nearly 100 were passed to the cashier in one week. They are believed to come from the Continent.