NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3840, 4 September 1928, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Over 50 big air liners arrive or depart from Croydon every day. This year’s Royal Academy contains exhibits from 21 London teacher*. 'The first wireless time signals were transmitted from the Eiffel Tower, Paris, in 1909. Among the students at British universities are 460 ex-London County Council scholarship students.

As much as twenty and thirty guineas is paid in Britain for new designs for fancy chocolate boxes. The British railways had, last year, an income of more than £20,000,000, while their expenditure was £17,000,000. In Berlin’s newest store there is a dining room for patrons dogs, whom the waiters attend with howls of food and drink. Less homework and more physical jerk's is to he the keynote of a new education system in the French State schools. 'The world’s gold reserves are estimated at £2,519,800,000, the principal holders being America, Britain, France, and Japan. Four eggs in a blackbird’s nest were smashed by a ball hit for a boundary at a cricket match at Southborough, Kent.

Although white rats usually have pink eyes, specimens of a new variety, with black eyes, have been found in central France. A cow is kept on exhibition in a New York zoolojgical gardens so that children of the metropolis may know what this creature looks like. One London school, at Highgate, has a fully equipped hangar, with aeroplanes and engines fitted up on the roof of a new science building. Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in Britain, has been pierced for the longest water tunnel in the world — fifteen miles in length when completed. Among the Moors, if a wife does not become thevmother. of a boy, she may be divorced with the consent of the tribe, and can marry again.