NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3872, 17 November 1928, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Motor tourists must now 7 pay a tax on entering and leaving Spain. “I want to marry; I own this cab; the girl must be well off. Strietesit confidence.” A Paris taxicab driver has posted this notice in his cab in at attempt to find a wife.

Under a new order issued to the police of England and Wales, the tails of stray dogs must be measured, so that the figure may appear in the “identity certificate” of the dog.

A special telephone-call, with a charge of has been established in New York for people who wish to know the itime. In one day it brought in a revenue of over £IOO Mr. G. Mayer, of Colwyn Bay, has invented a new microscope which the Prince of Wales has accepted for the Ross Institute. The instrument is claimed to have revolutionised) oancer research.

A fleet of flying-boats, constructed entirely of metal and each containing bunks for a crew of five, is nearing completion in a Yorkshire factory. They will be able to fly from England to Gibraltar nonstop.

“Jacko” the largest Gibraltar rock ape, and for many years the leader of the tribe, has been caught in a trap and is now aboard the fleet auxiliary Bacchus, enroute for the London Zoological Gardens. At a recent gathering of the employees of the Duke of Portland art W]elbeck Abbey, there were sixty persons with forty or more year's’ service to their credit, five of them having served the duke for sixty years.