NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3647, 4 June 1927, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A Cambridge student hits been killed by his scarf mlching in Ihe engine of his car, as lie was bending over it. The United States Bureau of Standards Ims found that sunset noticeably affects the direction of radio waves. A loan of £51)00 was completed jus! in lime. This is the sum needid to buy the Seven Sisters Cliffs, near Eastbourne, for the public. Airs. Alary Porter, aged 102, still lives in the thatched collage at Bingham, near Nottingham, from which she was married 80 years

A Roman tile of the second century has been .found near Metz with a workman’s marks made in the clay, showing the hours he work-

A dredger of Cherbourg has brought up the .stern of the 8(j-gun warship Triumphant, burned and sunk after the Battle of La Hogue in 1092.

To supply the shilling-in-the-slot gas-meters of one London gas company over 4,000,000 shillings arc withdrawn'from circulation every six weeks.

“The flower wreath and leaves are cherished bv the waters of the god Lono,” is an English translation of a native name recently conferred on a baby in Honolulu. The father has the absolute right to choose what schools his children shall go to and what religion they shall adopt, according to the decree of a London magistrate.

Dogs, motors, tobacco, salt, and whisky are among the objects of taxation in Japan, where it is now suggested that a tax should be put on canaries and other feathered pets. Judging by the bidding for pitches on "the beach at Brighton, ices and minerals are the first favourites with holiday-makers, while whelks and winkles tire going out of fashion.

The model liners that are shown in the windows of shipping offices may have cost anything up to £4,- ()()(). .They are outwardly true scale models of the vessels the) portray. Sand grouse, inhabitants ol desert areas, can carry water to their young by soaking their feathers and I lien, after living home, let the chicks quench their thirsts with this moisture.

In order to increase the populnrjtv of lish meals, authorities at Berlin are providing free o*o »lmners for 4900 unemployed clerks, on condition that they bring their

wives. A fibre rope that is tuismkablc has been produced in Holland. The rope includes it eove of “>-oam rubber” that lias a speeitic gravity only one-fourth as great as that of cork. Gotdev’s Green Tube Station, London, is used by mor ethan 40,000 passengers every day. When the station was opened, less than 20 years ago, the daily passengers numbered 1000-