NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40021, 9 November 1929, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A panorama device at the Aero Exhibition at Olympia, enabled visitors, seated in an aeroplane saloon, to imagine themselves flying from England to India. White papers show that on April 1 of 302,718 persons employed in Government departments in Britain 1-17,342 were ex-Service men and 75,340 were women.

Charles 'Deacon, aged 20, tried to make a call at Buckingham Palace lately, stating that he wanted to see the Queen. He was taken to hospital for observation.

'The appointment-of the Bev. M. Ci. IHuigh to he chaplain to the King in place of the Rev. H. R. L. Sheppard, Dean of Canterbury, was gazetted last month.

The Metropolitan iWater Board of London has adopted a suggest ion that it should have a coat of jirms, for which a grant, costing , £7O Ids, must be obtained.

/ The London and North-Eastern Railway Company has closed its branch line from Stamford to Wansford, Northamptonshire, in eonsec|iience of road transport competition. A bloodhound was used without avail to trace thieves who during the night stole a safe and about £3O in it from the Post Office at Bucks Green, Rudg-wiek, Sussex. George Oliver, a balance mechanic, was remanded at Thames Police iCourt, on a charge of stealing 13 shilling's and live florins at the Mint, where he was employed. A motor-cyclist, who was fined 10s 'fid at Hull, for dangerous driving, whs 'stated to have carried a passenger on the petrol tank and two others on the pillion. The dhapultepec (Mexico) radio station lias been transformed into a high power, short wave installation, capable of communicating with Europe, Asia, and South America.

•Professor W. L. Carlyle, who has change of the Prince of Wales’ ranch in Canada, arrived at Plymouth in July to secure fresh stock from the Prince’s home establishments.

•Sir. Wjilliain Jowitt, K.C., the new,.-(British Attorney-General, is among 1 23 recent candidates for election as members of the Fabian Society, the Socialist organisation. A Greek Bible, from the palace of the Czars at Tsarskoye Selo, the covers of which are encrusted with diamonds, emeralds and sapphires brought £9Bl 10s at a London sale.

Mr. 'Bernard 'Shaw’s new play, “The Apple )Oart,” was to be performed at Sir Barry Jackson’s Malvern Festival this month in English. It was first performed in Polish at Warsaw. More than 300 members of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes lately placed a number of wreaths on the Cenotaph at Whitehall as a tribute to members who died in the war.

A London omnibus driver secured a prize certificate given by the Wands-worth Infant Welfare Centre for an essay ou father-craft, iu which he quoted Confucius, the Chinese philosopher. The propeller of Sir Alan Hobham’s aeroplane caught in a tree at Rhyl, recently while he was descending after a Eight with some of the 'town councillors, but the occupants escaped injury. ,