NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2983, 7 January 1926, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Taken out twenty miles by motorcar a terrier dog was lost in Wales but found its way home. The Italian railwayman have erected a memorial to George Stephenson at the station in Siena

The Ontario Department of Agriculture is buyiny 25,000 barrels ol: apples for in Great Britain.

Tobacco seeds are so minute that a thimbleful will furnish enough plants for an acre of ground.

In future Holyhead will be known as Caereybi. This ancient Welsh name means the fort of Cybi, a Courth-centuray saint.

In a recent year there were 82,310 charges of drunkenness, with 74,051 convictions in police courts in Great Britain.

One second saved at each stopping place would mean a saving on the London County Council tramway system of about £2OOO a year. One of the last thoughts of a boy killed by a horse and a lorry at Kusholme recently was to beg his father to clear the driver from blame

The latest Paris frocks have tiny electric lights on them. Leeds public libraries have issued fifty thousand fewer hooks this year than last.

Two postmen admitted to a magistrate in London that they waited three-quarters of an hour to shelter from the rain while delivering letters.

A cat taken from Hutlnvaite, in Nottinghamshire, to Sutton-on-Trent returned to its old home three days later, having travelled thirty miles.

Some very old and beautiful chestnut trees in Deepdene Park, Dorking, are in danger of being cut down in order that a new road may be made. The Bolshevik Government allowed the free sale of vodka again in Russia, and great queues have been lining outside the shops in Moscow.

In 1900 an American transport man predicted that in 1920 there would not be a horse bus in London; in 1925 there is one, out for a holiday.

On condition that other councillors will follow his example, a Bourne councillor has offered £5 to buy trees to beautify the approaches to the town.