NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4447, 3 May 1930, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

Windscreen wipers are being lilted on the captain’s bridge of one of the latest British battleships. The average weekly cost, of an inpatient in one of London’s general hospitals is about £8 10/-. It takes about .15 months to season and dry the wood used in making matches by the ordinary process. During recent years hard-boiled eggs have been used as currency in certain parts of southern Russia. A lift to carry 20 people has been installed at the Paris Are de Triomphej savinb a climb ol 280 steps. The yacht Westward, of Plymouth, has won 44 prizes in 44 raros this year—3o first and 14 second prizes. Nearly 5001 b. of potatoes have been raised from 11b. of seed on an allotment at Gainsborough, England. Undisturbed by the noise of traflie hundreds of owls have built their nests in trees in a busy part of Leicester. A hen owned by a, h'lumborough lisherman laid a large egg inside . which was a smaller egg with shell complete. Gillingham in Kent has amalgamated with its neighbouring town of Kainhuin, Lite total population now being 03,000. The Aberdeen Council refused an application by Mormons for the use of a municipal pond for baptismal services. Of 4302 loaves of bread recently Weighed by Middlesex County council inspectors, 1001 were short in weight. Every foreigner who visits England spends on an average a day there, most of which beuetits British industries. .Men outnumber women in the Irish Free Stale, the number of males being 1,505,880 compared with 1,405,103 females.

An 181 b golden carp, 20in. long, caught in Leicester Pool, near Hinckley, England, was believed to be a hundred years old.