NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3836, 25 August 1928, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The coal produced in Britain last year yas 252 million tons. The quantity over all Europe, outside Britain, was 344 millions. No fewer than 40,000 cases of animal suffering have been treated in one month this year in Britan by the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals. A stone-worker who fell 40 feet from the roof of the London Hippo-_ drome was saved by the pluck of one of his mates who managed to break his fall. The British Prime Minister’s week-end visitors at Chequers had to do without baths not long ago owing to a break down of the pumping machinery!,

The Russian admiral who commanded the Baltic Fleet at the beginning of the war has just died on the Riviera, where he worked as a labourer on a farm.

A new propeller now being made for the steamer Mauretania will weigh 18 tons, but will be so well balanced that it can be turned with a little linger. British astronomy has lost one of its best-known figures by the death of Mr Edward Maunder, who was on the staff of Greenwich Observatory for half a century. Among some Indian tribes of North America it is customary to cut the hair of widows and forbid them to re-marry until their hair has re-grown to its original length. On the Glasgow trams is a little red box in which fares are dropped by passengers leaving before th(| conductor has collected their fares. In the last seven, months there was collected in one of these boxes over £735.

Almost any vacant spot which is large enough and level enough to permit New Zealand’s national game being played is claimed on Saturday afternoons by possible future All Blacks, says the Auckland “Star.” One such area happens to adjoin a cemetery within a seven-mile range of the G.P.0., and on Saturday budding Brownlie and Cookes were playing hard for victory when one of the players bosted the ball into the cemetery. Without hesitation the referee blew his whistle and ruled “dead ball.”