NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3035, 13 May 1926, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Wjherc children’s clothes are made at home, many British families throw away cuttings each year worth about £5, as new woollen rags fetch from 3d to 5d a pound nowadays. English cities frequently buy lifeboats for use at selected coast places. Thus, the lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, is called the Manchester and Salford. Nottingham, Birmingham, Northamptonshire and Westmoreland are now raising similar funds. Sir Henry Samman, a Hull shipowner, who was formerly a master mariner, has added £IGOO to a former gift by him of £IO,OOO to assist young men adopting commercial careers to study foreign languages abroad. Since 1917, 30 students have received grants amounting to £3609. British railway stations, it is remarked .by a Londqn paper, must look at their laurels. Flinders Street Station, Melbourne, claims that nearly 300,000 persons pass through it daily. The figures for Liverpool Street and Waterloo, London, are about 244,000 and 146,000 inland respectively. The most extraordinary forest in the world occupies a tableland some cix miles in width, near the West Coast of Africa. The peculiarity of the trees.is that, though their trunks are as as 4ft. in diameter, they attain the height of only Ift. No tree bears more than two leaves, and these attain a length of six feet and a breadth of two feet. Mrs Jane Anne Jewell, of Emswortli, near Portsmouth, whose great-grandfather, John King, built barges for conveying Nelson’s troops to scenes of action, recently celebrated her 100th birthday. She recalls that shingling existed in 1840, when she had her back hair cut, leaving a curl to one side only.