NEWS AND BRIEFS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3619, 29 March 1927, Page 1

NEWS AND BRIEFS

Gorillas sometimes attain an age of.' thirty or forty years. London schoolchildren have increased in weight and height since 1907. The bride and bridegroom at an Islington wedding Avere both named Joy. A flying officer in the Royal Air Force receives 18s lOd per day, plus allowances. To improve the appearance of floors, artistic borders in hardwood strips have been devised. Only about 30,000,000 of the world's available 450,000,000 horse power from water is used. The Chertsey Rural Council has decided not to sanction any thatched roofs on new houses. During a charity carnival, Glasgow students collected nearly 20 tons of coppers, about £BOOO. Skeletons amid rough stones shaped like a coffin have been found 15 inches beneath a road at Stonehaven. A man who died in a working men’s hostel in Glasgow, was found to possess property worth £llOO. Seeking escape from the Ullswater hounds a hard-pressed fox plunged into a lake and was droAvned. British manufacturers are supplying the Esthonian Government with 15,000 tons' of permanent-Avay materials. The sum of £1,000,000,000 is the estimated value-of all animals on farms in the United States of America. Dwarf trees about four feet high, hearing tomatoes, are a horticultural curiosity recently imported from China. According to recent reports, petroleum has been produced synthetically in the laboratory of a French chemist. Hats, floAver-pots, dishes and many other articles are being fashioned from pinewood pulp at an English factory. A man long deaf and dumb in Amplhill Workhouse, now checks his watch each day from Big Ben’s chimes. 1 A pair of Brighton twins, MattheAv and Mark Gunn, were seen out for a walk not Jong ago on their 94th birthday. Flying-helmets made of tine straw are being sold in Paris for the use of fashionable women who are keen on air travel. The London correspondent of a Danish paper had the first telephone conversation between London and C’opeii h agen, recently. Five bellringers, Avhose ages total 340 years, rang a pea! at Ever ton Church, near Doncaster, on the retirement of a ringer, aged 80. Iceland has one telephone to every twenty-six inhabitants, while in Britain we have only one telephone to every twenty-nine persons. St. Mary-le-Bow, London’s church Avhere hang the famous Boav Bells, serves five parishes with a combined resident population of only 100. Women are proving successful as property manageresses. One big estate in South London, with 800 houses, is Avell administered by Miss Moor. Tavo Castleford schoolboys Avere ordered three strokes of the birch each for Avounding four schoolgirls by stabbing them in the legs Avith stolen pocket knives.