NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3769, 20 March 1928, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Kent Educational Committee is considering the appointment of an itinerant instructor to visit village blacksmiths and teach them fashionable wrought iron work.

At a recent sale of old English silver in London a George I kitchen pepper pot, weighing lijoz., fetched 485/ per oz., and a George I pitcher cream jug, 30z., 24/- per oz. •Motor-cars arc being used in Los Angeles to take bees out to districts full of flowers. If the experiment succeeds, it is hoped to increase greatly the production of honey.

Although Britain compares favourably in military flying with any other country, it is far behind Germany in civil aviation. One. German company alone has at least 140 air liners.

the volume of the poems of Foscolo, recently presented by the Italian Government to the British nation, has, been placed on view in the King’s Library at the British Museum. Miss Sarah Holland, now aged 84, retired last year upon the death of the last member of a family at Sutton, Montis, Dorset, to which she had been a domestic servant for 70 years. Mr. J. T. Trundley, the “fat boy of Peckham” —he weighs 19 stone and is 29—has been quietly mar-

ried to a widow one year younger. The bridegroom at one time weighed 30 stone.

The Buenos Aires Municipal Council has decided definitely to reject the offer put forward by a London group headed by Lord Ampthill to construct an underground railway in the city. Everything, from handling luggage to cleaning and cooking, will be done by electricity on a new ship being built in Belfast. There are 14(1 miles\of cables and wires used aboard her. The degree of Doctor of Music has been conferred on Air. John McCormack, the tenor, by the Senate of the National University of Ireland, in recognition of his eminence in musical work.

William Patterson, a mill worker, has retired from the service of the Barn Mills, Carriekfergus, after sixty-three years’ continuous service. He was never absent for one day, though at one period he had a broken arm.

The Turkish Government has decreed that the Friday morning sermons in mosques are to be delivered in Turkish instead of Arabic, and has circulated a volume of 50 model sermons for the guidance of preachers. Chiefs of our Army and Navy are apt to marry later in life than politicians and lawyers. Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Lloyd George both took wives at the age of 25, while Earl Haig was 44 and Earl Jellicoe 43 before they entered the married state.

More than 4000 members of the Hillhead Unionist Association, Glasgow, received a Christmas card from their , member, Sir Robert Horne. These were posted at Aden, and bore a reproduction photo of Aden Harbour, with a seasonable greeting. A desire that his death “should not make any disarrangement of the plans and amusements of any person” is expressed in the will of Mr.’Godfrey Alfred Joseph, a London paper merchant, leaving £29,981. He also requested that no one should wear morning for him. While playing cricket on Saturday afternoon, Thomas Malinson, single, aged 20, who resided with his people at Eastbourne, was struck behind the ear with a hall. Attaching very little importance to the inciden, Malinson continued to play on for twenty minutes, when he .suddenly collapsed. He was taken to his home, where, after being examined was ordered immediately into hospital, but while being lifted into the vehicle on a stretcher, the yiung man expired.

Some Ilawera shopkeepers were taken in by the winning ways of a young woman at the end of last week (says the Stratfqrd Post). She went to one shop and explained that she was “fussy” in regard to goods she wished to purchase for her husband. Some expensive articles of wearing apparel werebought and a cheque tendered in payment. The cheque was closely scrutinised and the lady appeared to be so charming and truthful that it was accepted and the goods and change handed over to her. The same kind of method was followed at two other shops, and the shopkeepers are now lamenting, the cheques having been returned from the bank. It is thought the woman was a stranger passing through the town. >