NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4405, 23 January 1930, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A London hospital in 1928 used 127 miles of bandages. Two seals were lately seen in the River Tees at Middlesbrough. An 1852 Canadian 12d stamp realised £260 in England lately. - Cleaning the streets of London cost on an average £3OO every day. The number of pianos made in Great .Britain in 1928 was the largest since 1913. Windscreens for the protection of the drivers of London buses arc being arranged for. Gold has been found in an Irish gravel pit. 'Samples wei’e sent to England for analysis. There have been no weddings or funerals at Ramsden Grays, Essex, Church, for three years. After a 5000-mile flight from India, an air mail, recently reached England in time to the minute. An old stage coach has been sold by auction for fifty shillings at Workshop, in Nottinghamshire. A hundred years ago there was in Great Britain 103 canals. Their total extent was 2082 miles.

Moscow is brought within 29 hours of London by an Imperial Airway accelerated night and day service.

Canada has increased its electric power in five years from 1,000,000 to nearly 6,000,000 horse-power. The highest yearly average of people on the English unemployment registers was 1,938,758 in 1922.

The Plymouth prison is to he closed early this year, and prisoners will be accommodated at Exe-

From £6OO to £3OOO a year rent will be charged for luxury flats being built in the West End of London. There are three children under six years of age on the new voters’ list at Biggleswade, England. They are sisters.

In the 80 years of its existence the British Commercial Travellers’ Benevolent Institution has disbursed £630,000. Oaks are so long in maturing that the planting of them is not regarded as a commercial proposition in Britain. London is growing faster than

any great eity. Its population has risen from 6,500,000 to 8,000,000 in flic last 25 years. A little girl at Islington, London, who helped an old lady across the road, was knocked down and 'killed on Ink' way back. . The Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society in 1928 assisted 2281 sailors and fishermen, 2762 widows, 1060 orphans, and 128 aged parents.

Straw hats for men, known as “boaters,” and now out of favour in England, are still fashionable wear in France and Italy.

The Towelr of London is not in the city of London, the boundary of which stops short at the west wall of the old fortress.

An Airedale terrier at Pontypool sat for two days by the broken machine on which its master had been killed in a collision.

According to a wall tablet in Florence, Italy, spectacles were invented in the thirteenth century by an inhabitant of that city. Wood Green Council is experimenting with a motor dustcart, with covers which automatically open when the dustman stands on a step.