NEWS IN BRIEF.
It; is believed that; over a hundred -miHion tons of coal lie in the area under one colliery in Kent. ' A pigeon lias returned to its home at Market Drayton, (Shropshire, after an absence of nearly four years.
A. new meteorological service to furnish weather reports for army airmen is to be established in Spain.
, To guide aeroplanes a 2,000,000 candle-power beacon, to., be called the Lindbergh, is to be erected on a Chicago skyscraper. ; For shooting a great crested grebe, one of England’s rarest and handsomest birds, a man living at Addletone, Surrey, was fined £l. Work lias been begun on the first .railway in the Republic :of San Marino, an ‘‘electric line from, the nearest Italian railway station. Nine players in a eup-tie football match between Bangor Reser-
\es and Giilwyn Ray Reserves are imail'd .Jones. So was the referee. .Mount Elluirz, which is LB,s2;>ti. high, and is tin 1 eiiiel peak of the ’Caucasus, lias been sealed hv a Russian mountaineering expedition.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4413, 11 February 1930, Page 4
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168NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4413, 11 February 1930, Page 4
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