NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3580, 28 December 1926, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Four prisoners were shot dead, 22 wounded, and five warders wounded in a recent outbreak at the prison in Kingston, Jamaica, arising out of the difference in the diet of Europeans and Jamaicans. Stamps to the number of more than half a million, and worked into artistic designs, have been used for papering one room arid the hall of a house in Simons Town, South Africa. A twenty-year-old hen has hatched a brood of fourteen chicks at Heppershall, Bedfordshire, England, and this when all poultry authorities say the domestic hen is too old at three. A world’s record for motorless gliding has been set up by the flight of Herr Max Kegal in the RJione mountains by a straight flight being made in a thunderstorm. Although the sea covers threefourths of the earth’s surface, it does not provide proportionately for man’s wants. Only about onethirtieth of the world’s inhabitants gain their living directly from the sea. A Norwegian seaman recently crossed the’'North Sea alone in an

open sailing boat 25ft. long. Two days out the boat sprang a leak, and for eight days the sailor had to bail out every three hours, day and night. A plan to preserve in a great archives building in Washington motion picture records of historic events, such as the signing of peace treaties and American troops and warships in actual operations, has been approved by President Coolidge. When a 64-year-old Irishwoman was charged at Manchester with being drunk it was stated that she had appeared at the court 188 times previously, and had only been out of prison a few hours when she was arrested. She was allowed to go.