NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3507, 6 July 1926, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

More than 145,000,000 herrings have been caught this season at Yarmouth. The United States postal service was run at a loss of £10,000,000 in 1924. Women in Britain, especially those with large families, are learn-

g to repair boots and shoes. Jackdaws, magpies, squirrels, tdgehogs, cranes, peacocks, and rails were popular dishes in the id die Ages.

Children under 12 have been reiscd permission to take part in a oadcase concert in Birmingham. The Monument, London, which is 12ft. high, was designed by Sir hristopher Wren to serve as a ibe for a long telescope.

Millions of pounds are spent every year in Britain on furs, mostly rabbit, which are imported from all parts of the world. The broken champagne bottle which was used in the christening of H.M.S. Victoia, 1887, has been presented to Earl Jellieoe. In one street in Billingsborough, Lincolnshire, live three people over 90. One tenth of the inhabitants are over 70 years of age. For perhaps the first time .tor centuries a dance recently took place in the Tower of London, ft was held in the officers’ mess.

A gigantic lamp of 450,000,000 candle-power is used to guide night-lliers in the Trans-Continent-al Air Mail Service between Chicago and Cheyenne.

Said to own a banking account, a yacht and motor-car, a coloured man, who was recently sent to prison in London, was drawing the dole. Some 000,000 children leave British elementary schools every year to ‘ enter the labour market. Of these about 05,000 are resident in London.