NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3951, 4 June 1929, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

A friend of 'Cecil Rhodes, .who has just died, left £SO to the waitress at Jiis eln'h table. In the area of the Metropolitan Water Board, London, there are 7000 .miles of water-lmains. ■Mr. Henry Ford has abolished the midnight shift at his works because (lie hours after midnight are not productive enough. The “Wise Men of Gotham’’ were Nottinghamshire villagers who were famous in the fifteenth century for their foolish fears. In Berlin’s newest store there is a dining room for patrons’ dogs, whom the waiters attend with howls of food and drink. One lady in a. south-east suburb iin London has feet so small that she can wear children’s size thirteen shoes. She is keen on outdoor sports and a great wftlktS 1 . During some recent land-casting competitions in connection with the Lowestoft sea-angling festival the All-England Championship was won with a east of 138 yards 4Jim William Alfred Maeka.y, for keeping a eomjmon gaming-house in Customs Street, Auckland, was fined £IOO on Thursday by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M. Keith Wynyard Raynes was fined £lO for assisting. Between the end of 1921 and the spring of 1927 about 1,500,000 foreign workers had to be imported into Franco to supply urgent industrial needs. Copper kettles and frying pans, worth about 35s each, were found in a sackful of kitchen refuse eolieoted from a military cookhouse at Aldershot. A New York Woman lias sent £IOO, her savings for twenty years, ,to provide an annual'tea for poor children of Wprksop, where she w ent to school. In a Bnrlmese viltinge 50 out of 7'ti houses were burned down as a result of a man setting fire to a tree to catch a snake hiding in its branches. Racing a cpialrter of a mile through the dark, Robert Turner reached the M'orley signal-box just in time to say the tunnel had fallen in and to save a crowded train from wreck. Thtree hundred frightened people have deserted the little village of Fortes, in the South of France, which is slowly sinking into the earth. There has just died at Oxford the Rev. Louis Arthur Cockerell, a well-known cricketer who played iu the. Rugby eleven 74 years ago—only a little later than Tom Brown’s schooldays. Out of the 939 girls who sat for a recent entry examination to the British Civil ‘Service as typists, 70S failed. In shorthand over 160 failed to get one mark, while 150 “scored a duck” in typewriting. While wireless concerts, cinemas, and libraries have met with partial success on the long-distance expresses of the London and Northeastern Railway, hairdressing saloons and children’s nurseries have been very popular.