NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2984, 9 January 1926, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

When the Dundee Tramways Committee was discussing the question of workmen’s fares, recently one member said that in Aberdeen “people dirty their faces to get cheap fares.” Wfoen Leo Dryden, the variety singer, broadcast songs from New-castle-on-Tyne, recently, his son. Wheeler Dryden, in New York, recognised the voice while listening. Father and son have not met for twelve years. Given up as dead by his friends at Kalamazoo, Michigan, for nearly ten years, John Kemp, a farmer blacksmith, John Kemp, a farmer tances by dropping in on them for a visit. Since leaving Kalamazoo in 1912 he has been engaged in business in Kansas and Nebraska. To convince a policeman at Leigh (Lancs) that he had no betting slips, a man emptied his pockets. Asked why his face was swollen, the man said he had toothache. “I have a good remedy for that,” said the policeman, and pulled a sheaf of betting slips from tbe suspect’s mouth. A motorist at Hoghton, near Preston, found a woman’s handbag. He pulled up, searched the bag for an address, and found that it contained seven lace handkerchiefs, three Japanese flags, eighteen cigarettes, three Felix cats, a powderpuff, false teeth, a mascot dog, a French penny, and a live frog. A Grimsby constable hit .on a novel plan for securing evidence against a motorist. Noticing a car outside a club he put a penny on the wheel and went away. He returned two hours afterwards and found the penny still there. On this evidence the magistrates fined the motorist 5s for obstructing the highway. A bank clerk in Vienna who had taken a ticket in the Lottery was listening to the Vienna broadcast programme when the winning numbers were announced. When he head his own number read out first he threw/ away his head phones and performed a wild dance on the floor. He had won 30,000,000 crowns.

Solo dances by professional dancers in cabarets and night clubs are now forbidden in Vienna by a police regulation. The chief liquorice-producing area in China is the Ordos Territory the exports of which during 1923 totalled over 10,000,0001 b, valued at £174,000. It is estimated that this district finds work for at least 8000 persons in liquorice digging. The London County Council is asking inventors to find a cheap kind of non-splintering glass. There no safety glass at present entirely satisfactory. “Pitch in, boys, but be careful, came a voice to a rescue party in a Welsh mine the other day. When the party got through the voice was silent for ever. By the overflowing of the Yellow River an area more than 1500 square miles of China has recently been flooded. This is stated to be the worst flood since 1887. A protest has been made in Britain concerning the danger, to people on buses, arising from steam tractors, which often, throw out hot sparks as big as grains of wheat.