NEWS IN BRIEF.
Over 80,000 people visited Shakespeare’s birthplace last. year. Natives of Africa use 800 languages and dialects. The River Nile contains about 9000 kinds of fish. Terrific storms recently blew 'down 110 bridges in North-west Russia. Nineteen admirals attended the wedding of a naval paymaster at Southsea. Bulldogs, with an average life of six years, are among shortest-lived animals. ; Fifty-three children were lost and found on Hampstead Heath on a recent holiday. Faith Hope Charity are the Christian names of an old lady who died lately at Chertsey. Europe, to-day, has about 4,000,000 unemployed, a fact unprecedented in economical annals. The dust vans at Hythe, Kent, have painted on thef “Burn more have painted on them “Burn more Two men, sentenced at Nottingham, lately, for stealing a red cow, •were named Brown and Green. Among applicants for the Bethnal Green Council’s new flats was a family of 12, who were living in one At the age of 94 Miss M. Duckworth has died in Drink House, Chorley, which she had occupied a her life.
Dirt weighing seventy-three tons was washed down on the City of London by rain during November last year. In the course of a year’s “rags,” nearly three thousand windows are broken in the colleges of Oxford by students. Hastings Castle, now in ruins and for sale, is the remains of the large fortress erected by William the Conqueror. For refusing to cultivate his kitchen garden, the tenant of an Alfreton Council house has been given notice to quit. Six branches of the British National Children’s Orphanage have each received an anonymous packet containing £SO in gold. A bluetit has built its nest in a street letter-box at Hardwick, in Berkshire, sitting through the daily letter clearance. There are -about 4000 women On boards of guardians, county and county borough councils and their committees in Great Britain. A Bedworth man has a veteran racing pigeon “Postman,” which is 20 years old. It has crossed the Channel scores of times.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3682, 25 August 1927, Page 4
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334NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3682, 25 August 1927, Page 4
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