NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3572, 7 December 1926, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Crops in North Yorkshire have been so bountiful that many farmers have had to extend their stackyards. Stoke Newington, where Daniel Defoe lived, is to have a bust of him likq that in the Cripplegate Institute.

A wolf has killed eleven sheep belonging to the Superintendent of Wolf Hunting, near AngouTeme. in France. Among London’s strange occupations are cart-minding, selling hot dates in the markets, and painting door-knockers. Soup is stated by one doctor to be the best, appetiser before a meal, with tea and coffee as a second and third choice. This year the postmaster of Bromley, Kent, will take the holidays due to him in 1882, of which he has, just been reminded. At the English Kennel Club’s recent annual exhibition nearly one quarter of the dogs shown were Alsatians, of whom there were 544. Nine times a champion, Selecta Ideal, a fox-terrier recently shown in London, is just over two years old. His owner refused £IOOO for him. Imitation jewels are selling well in Paris, where an artistic bracelet with imitation diamonds set in silver may cost as much as £2O.