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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4455, 22 May 1930, Page 1

Jiu-jitsu, or Japanese -wrestling, is one of the very few sports in which women can compete on a routing of equality with men. It is a question of skill and not strength. Excavations in the Saxon cemetery at Guildown, on the Hog’s Back, near Guildford, England, have led to the discovery of 79 bodies with 'brooches and other jewellery. A Charles II (plain silver tankard brought £ll an ounce at Christie’s, London, recently. As much as £7 5/- an ounce was paid for a pair of Queen Anne table candlesticks. The number of smallholdings in Britain is slowly decreasing. Last \ ear there were 258,326. smallholdings in England and Wales; in 1919 the number was 272,568, and in 1908, 287,170. The British 'territorial Army on January 1 numbered 6864 officers and 129,066 other ranks. There was a decrease of 6'B officers and 3378 other ranks compared with the previous year. The first Oxford and Cambridge boat race was rowed in 1829 from Hambledon Lock to Henley 'Bridge, 2} miles. Oxford won Iby sixty yards. The boats used in this race were ‘soft. long.