NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4450, 10 May 1930, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Atlantic has been flown by 127 people, of whom 102 I ravelled in airships.

Fourteen million pilchards have been shipped to Italy I i'oiii Cornwall. this season.

A report, has conic from Jericho of the discovery of a tower about 1000 years old.

Work Ims been started on (he search for the tomb ot Alexander, who died in 323 b.e. near Alexandria.

Street accidents in London caused 1.302 deaths la.st year. This is an increase of 118 over Hie previous year.

With a tractor lit by two powerful headlights a. Wellingborough farmer has ploughed his land by night.

■Britain’s marriage rate has de- < lined from just over 20 per 1000 of the population in 1920 to 15 per .1000 last veav.

Toynlon in Lincolnshire has 30 septuagenarians, 13 oel ogenarians, and two nonagenarians among its 530 inhabitants.

London’s force of policewomen is to be doubled iu strength. In .1925 the number was raised from 24 to 50; now it is to become 100. A stag springing out of a wood in Thuringia, Germany, charged a motorcar and threw if over, one passenger being killed.

A great percentage of people arc born with arms of unequal length, and something like 10 per cent, of Ihe population have odd legs. London Museum has received a gift of two pieces of silk brocade from the mantle Hilaries Stuart, wore on the way to his execution. At the inquest on an old Lambeth resident, who made a living by selling wood, it was j-qvealed that he had £1485 in the Post: Office.

Two English linns have secured ihe contract to supply 95,400,000 stamps to Athens Government for Ihe centenary of Greek Independence.

London is to spend £13,293,4.28 ~ii education during the coining liti-.-mcial year; this is an increase of £2.12,532 above the figure for the present year. 't'lie Danish Parliament has abolished capital punishment by a vote of more than two to one. It is 30 years since a death sentence was i arriecl out. Alabaster vases found in a tomb near the Sphinx, in Egypt, st ill gave forth a. sweet perfume, the result of impregnation iwth some secret preparation over 4600 years ago. The silver in a sixpence of the current coinage is worth only one penny, according to a. Treasury slatement. Ollier British coins contain a proportionate quantity of silver.

Bread sold in America must not contain more Ilian 38 per cent, moist lire. If there were hut one potato in Hie world, says a calculator, a careful euilijvator miglil produce III,000,(11)0,000 from ii in ten years, mid t hus supply I he world with seed ,-igain.