NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3021, 10 April 1926, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Among the stores placed on hoard the Arundel Castle for a recent voyage from South Africa were 100 turkeys, 1000 chickens, 400 ducks, 500 head of game, 250,000 cigarettes, 4000 cigars, 1000 bottles of champagne, 3000 bottle of other wines, and 25,000 bottles of mineral waters, besides spirits, liqueurs, ale, stout, and so on. In the making of bricks, according to the latest methods, through all the processes of screening, mixing, moulding, and pressing, only one human hand interferes. This is the hand of the boy who regulates the flow of water from a tap into the mixer, mor in dry weather, less in wet. Last year as regards the number of passengers killed in train accidents in Great Britain has almost the same clean sheet as the years. 1901 and 1908, when there was not a single fatal passenger train accident. The accident returns for 1925 show one passenger as having been killed due to a train accident. Several of the inmates'of the Leyburn (Wensleydale) Workhouse, who were taken to a cinema the other day had never previously been to an exhibition of films. Their first experience of “the movies” delighted them, and they are anxious to pay a second visit, although they cannot understand how the figures move on the screen. An estimate of the bird population of the island of Bute was attempted by the Rev. J. M. McWilliam in a paper read to the Royal Physical Society in Edinburgh recently. On the basis of shooting records and personal observation, he said, there was reason to believe that the birds of Bute might number 400,000 about 6000 per square mile. There is a young American in London who is very much talked about, and is said to bear a remarkable likeness to the Prince of Wales. He has caused quite a stir in certain circles, and once or twice there have been some curious misunderstandings through the resemblance. The American’s friends have nicknamed him “Feathers,” probably after the Prince’s crest.

George Geoffrey, of Warwick Bridge, Cumberland, sentenced by the county magistiates at Carlisle to two months’ imprisonment for neglecting his five children, was stated to be receiving 33s dole and 31s 9d weekly as a life war pension. Inspector Buckland told the magistrates there were four canaries in the house and they were better looked after than the poor motherless children. A curious story comes from London of the suicide of a returned soldier. His name was Henry Jayes, and he was wounded in the back during the war. He married, and his first child had a hole in its back just where its father was wounded. When Jayes suffered from the wound the child suffered, and its cries were so pitiful that the father became frantic and at last shot himself. A list of private schools in the Dominion registered under section 7 of the Education Amendment Act, 1921, is gazetted. It shows that there are 301 private primary and secondary schools, the number in each education district being: — Auckland 63, Taranaki 16, Wanganui 31, Hawke’s Bay 30, Wellington 49, Nelson 11, Canterbury 64, Otago 25, Southland 12. Over 180 of the institutions are Roman Catholic, the remainder being Anglican, Presbyterian, Salvation Army, Seventh Day Adventists, or undenominational.