NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3577, 18 December 1926, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

Only three telegraph-offices ir Greater London are open for business after 8 p.m.

All the policemen in the city of Cincinnati have been equipped with pocket cameras.

A mechanical violin has been produced in France. A real bow and real violin are used.

Brazilian coffee exporters are experimenting with new bags made from a common weed. Two Roman milestones have been discovered at Bowes, and are being preserved at Northallerton.

Bread that will keep for six years without deteriorating was exhibited at a recent London Medical Exhibition.

Of 250 Straffordshire women, who lately visited Blackpool together, more than 200 had never seen the sea, and many had never been in a train before.

During the year ended May 31st last no fewer than 2186 sums of money and 918 parcels of clothing were found in the Glasgow Corporation's tramcars.

A number of figures carved in sand-stone have been dug up at Whitestone Grange, near Rotherham, where a church is believed to have stood in 1237.

Emeralds are so popular in Britain just now that £I2OO a carat is being paid for the best specimens. The choicest diamonds fetch only £SOO a carat.

A. thousand pounds has been sent by her family to an officer of a Danish ship who rescued an Englishwoman from drowning in Copenhagen Harbour.

The cost to educate one child at an elementary school in Britain for one year amounts to £ll 12s lid. .Of this £8 4s sd. represents the. teachers’ salaries.

A farmer in the Driffield district in Yorkshire gave his harvest workers Ibis year a real thanks giving in the form of a £5 note each as soon as the last sheaf was carted home.