NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 0234, 17 April 1926, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Wreaths in the shape of horses’ heads, collars, shoes, and whip and cart wheels were laid on the gTave of a Doncaster horse dealer at a funeral at Doncaster Cemetery. An earl’s son, trying to beat a bricklayer, has laid a thousand bricks in England in a day—far more than bricklayers lay to-day, but not more than in pre-war days. Apparently disappointed at finding that an offertory box in All Saints’ Church, Rotherhithe, contained no money, thieves defaced the woodwork of the organ and tore away parts of the instrument. . A lady of Montgomeryshire some years ago offered £50,000 to the Presbyterian churches of Wales if they would raise another £50,000. They have now done so, and the lady has kept her word. While they looked at a photograph thrown on a screen, representing the heart-beat of a patient, 1500 doctors recently listened to a physician’s diagnosis coming over 1000 miles of telephone wires.

Although January 28 was the 120th anniversary of street lighting at Bradford, the city still lights its 17,000 street lamps with matches. The lamplighter climbs a ladder and strikes a match at each lamp.

Roman Rolland, the famous French author, was presented with a' volume of memorial letters by readers all over the world, when he celebrated his 60th birthday recently. He now lives in Switzerland.

Moreeambe, the Lancashire seaside resort, is at last to scrap what is believed to be the last horse tramway system in England. Twodecked and single-decked motoromnibuses will in future be used. Over 500 tons of old tin cans have been collected and sold to British firms by the Huddersfield Corporation during the past two years. In this way about £825 has been collected for the town’s rates.

The British Co-operative Holidays Association has passed a resolution urging upon local authorities the desirability of passing bylaws making the scattering of lit*ter in public parks and open spaces a punishable offence. As a Hull woman named Annie Kingston was going on an errand carrying a jug she fell and the jug was broken. One of her arms was severely cut, a vital artery being several, and she bled to death on the wav to the Royal Infirmary.

By the death of Sir Thomas O’Connor Moore in Cork one of the oldest baronetcies in Ireland becomes extinct. Sir Thomas was the eleventh holder of 'the title, which was created in 1(181. He died in poor circumstances at the age of 83. The Camberwell Public Service Committee has forbidden the placing of wreaths with glass coverings in”the cemetery, and is removing any now there, as many have become broken. Accidents to men cutting the grass have resulted. Policemen controlling traffic in Birmingham have been supplied with rubber mats to ensure them from cold and damp, and to help them resist colds and influenza. Since these mats have ben used colds have become much fewer. The death has occurred at Minkstoncombe, near Bath, of Mis Bright, widow of Air. John Albert Bright, eldest son of John Bright. She was 64. Her husband who died a year ago formerly representted Central Birmingham and Oldham in Parliament.