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NEWS IN BRIEF.

The people of England smoke 200,000,000 cigarettes every day. ■Domestic fires are responsible for about 80 per cent, of London’s fires. There are estimated to be about 0,000,000 cyclists in Great Britain. A fox badger, and an otter have been seen of late in Richmond Park.

Pennies issued by the Royal Mint during 1926 numbered more than 10,500,000.

Canada is well on the way to becoming the second gold-producing country of the world. The District Council of Barry has refused to allow Sunday photography on the beach. Inventions that have been patented have totalled up to as many as 30,672 in one year. A shell left by Tank gunners on the range at Lulworth Cove exploded and killed a nurse.

A German girl has swum round Heligoland, nearly four and a-half miles, in just over four hours. Pressing clothes with hot irons not only preserves the creases; it also destroys disease-producing germs. a

The University of Wales has received an annonymous gift of £lO,000 for the encouragement of research. Catacombs of the earliest Christian period have been discovered during excavations in the island of Melos. *

“Go by the thermometer rather than calendar” is a safe rule in deciding how much heavy clothing to wear.

Montgomery, the second oldest royal borough in Wales, has been keeping the 700th anniversary of its first charter.

Statistics show that the average British woman now weighs 7st. 121 b., is sft. 2in. in height, has a pull of 1831 b., and a grip of 581 b. It is possible to feed a man sufficiently to maintain life by massaging him with a mixture 'of fat, proteid, sugar, and other ingredients. Visitors to the London Zoo in 1927 numbered 2,158,208, a figure which bettered the previous record, made in. 1924, by more than 10,000.

Paris milliners are now making hats so close fitting that they look like the wearer’s hair. Feathers of all colours are used for them.

A gun used in German East Africa during the Great War was actually made in 1680. It is to be seen in the Imperial War Museum, London.

The boys of Moreland Street School, Finsbury Park, have brought back from their camp, near Whitstable, the bones of an ox of the Stone Age. At the marriage of the porter of Newmarket Workhouse to a nurse at the infirmary 28 tramps formed a guard of honour, holding their tea-cans aloft.

A chemical process for rendering fireproof the paper used for banknotes, cheques, and other important documents, is one of the most needed inventions.

A window cleaner, losing his footing on a third-floor window in Manchester, caught the arm of a lamp-post as he fell, and escaped with a broken arm.

Footprints taken on the lines of the finger-print system are being used for identifying criminals in Ceylon, where a great part of the population go bare-foot.

Central heating is fitted to a new aeroplane built for use in Newfoundland “spotting” seals. It is possible for the pilot to dispense with gloves when flying. Fire alarms newly installed in Edinburgh’s streets work on the telephone principle. Once the glass is broken it is only necessary to call into the instrument.

A set of Scott’s “Waverley,” just as it left the printer’s hands, recently brought £6OO at auction. Another first edition, which had ■been rebound, sold last year for £5. What may be called “bobbing parties,” at which the girl guests trim one another’s hair, are becoming.so popular in London that they are affecting the hairdressing business. Although there is no such thing technically as imprisonment for debt in Britain, 2386 debtors were imprisoned during 1926; this is a decrease on the figures, 2632, ot 1925.

Born twelve years ago without fingers or thumbs, Caroline Rivett, a Bermondsey schoolgirl, has learned to write and do fancy lettering and embroidery from her own original designs. ,

'Speaking at the annual meeting of the Historical Association, in London, Mr. C. H. K. Marten, of Eton College, said he once found a boy had been given 80 marks by the University examiners —only because they had been counted wrongly.

A man at Willesden, applying for a summons for “threats,” said his wife, to whom he had been married 40 years, threatened to order more coal while there was still some in the cellar. Romantic as are the histories of many big cities, few of them are as interesting as those of towns like Cowley, Port Sunlight, and Bournville, which owe their existence to a special industry. On a 22,00 mile cruise for which the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of France left recently, she was to call at the loneliest island, Tristan de Cunha, with food, clothes, and a wireless set. Figures show that the world is much healthier than it was sixteen years ago, in spite of the War years. The death ratte of America, for instance, has fallen from 15 per 1000 in 1910, to 12.1 in 1926. Viscount Craigavon, the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, is in the unique position of being able to sit in the House of Lords a't Westminster and in the Lower House of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

London Hospital has been granted a coat of arms by the Heralds College, a prominent feature being three feathers, symbolical of the inception of the institution at the Three Feathers Tavern, Cheapside, in 1740.

Private marks he had made on artificial teeth supplied by him led a Southampton dentist to identify a skeleton found in Hollington Wood, Sussex, as that of Mrs. Emma Cozens, a widow, who had been missing since November, 1926. Known as the cigarette nicture “king,” Mr. George Gidding, of Camberwell, has collected over £ll2 by selling these pictures to South London schoolboys at 20 for a halfpenny. The money goes to the George Gidding cot at King’s College Hospital. A legal controversy is in progress on the question whether the 28 beadles of the city of London come within the scope of the National Insurance Act. If they do, the corporation will have to supply each with an insurance card in addition to the customary cocked hat, gown, staff and mace.

To a- maid who reuained in the same situation for 30 years, a memorial tablet has been dedicated by the Bishop of Buckingham in the parish church at Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire. She was Miss Ellen Gates, who was in the domestic service of the vicar of Ivinghoe from the time she was 15 until her death recently at the age of 45. A deputation consisting of several persons whose fathers were killed in the Kaitangata mine disaster 49 years ago, waited on the Minister of Mines, the Hon. G. J. Anderson, at Dunedin recently, to ask that the sum still standing to the credit of the relief fund be distributed among the surviving descendants. The Minister replied, in effect, that £15,000 or £16,000 was subscribed by the public, and that by the careful management of the trustees over £28,000 was made available, and had been distributed, while £IO,OOO of accured income yet remained. Hundreds of others had lost their fathers when just as young. There was recently brought to his notice the case of two miners who, he believed, should receive benefit from the fund, and who came within the scope of the resolutions passed by the subscribers. He intended to grant them some relief if investigations showed that the circumstances justified such a course. He would strongly oppose any proposal to distribute the balance of the fund in the manner suggested by the deputation.

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3760, 28 February 1928, Page 1

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3760, 28 February 1928, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3760, 28 February 1928, Page 1

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