NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4039, 9 January 1930, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Rising to a height of 15,80511. above sea level, the railway between iClallao and Huancayo, in Peru, is the highest standard gauge line in the world. Sark, one of the Channel Islands, has many curious local taxes, one being paid in fowls by each house, according to the number of chimneys it possesses. The ex-Kaiser is still the richest man in the German Republic. The property which he and his family were allowed to keep is valued at £25,000,000. At the opening of the public baths at Canning Town Dockland Settlement a ni'an dived into the swimming bath and brought up the key from the bottom. Although the prospects arc better in the big stores and in trades, 70 per cent, of girls leaving school in Britain want to go to offices, because the' hours are shorter. Mr. Rtuiyard Kipling, lately opened the Junior King’s School, Canterbury, in Lord Milner's old ‘home at Starry Court, given by Lady Milner in memory of her husband. It is to be called Milner Court. Among the semi-precious stones to be found on the shores of the British Isles are earnelians, rock crystals, agates, amethyst, matrix, jet, onyx and aquamarines.