NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3799, 31 May 1928, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mr. W. E. Gladstone died 30 years ago to-day. America has a battleship which carries 91 aeroplanes: There are now 1892 women magistrates in England and Wiales. Salford has stopped the advertisement of greyhound races on the backs of tram tickets. In two months lately over 300 recent settlers in Palestine have left the country. In a horseback race across France from Paris to Cannes a sixteen-year-old Hindu girl won. A room decorated with blue tiles has been excavated at the Sakkara Pyramid in Egypt. The Belgrade cinemas recently struck work for a day in protest against entertainment tax. Just 150 bridges have been scheduled as national monuments in England, Scotland and Wales. Over 280 tons of flowers were sent from the Scilly Isles in January and February this year. A Coventry lady has bequeathed £IO,OOO for the maintenance of the steeple of Coventry Cathedral. The Port of London is to have a new floating pneumatic grain ele-

vator which will discharge 110 tons an hour. Among Sir Jesse Boot’s munificent gifts to Nottingham is a great range of playing fields covering nearly 200 acres. •Schubert’s portrait is to appear on five million of the new Austrian coins, this year being the centenary of his death in Vienna,