NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4464, 12 June 1930, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Traffic weighing 10(3,000 tons recenllv passed by Hyde Park, Corner, London, in twelve hours. Of the 100 pedestrians hurt or killed by ears in Britain, it is calculated that 5S suffer entirely through their own fault, and 42 by the error of drivers. The number of Lillies issued last vear by (he Bible Society reached ihe amazing figure of 11,390,a 10 nearly one and a-half millions move iban the previous year. Uprooting ferns and other plants growing' in roads, lanes, hanks, or ; ominous is now a punishable offence in Berkshire, ihe penalty being JO/- for the first offence. Boiled sweets are to he supplied lo the women in poor-law institutions, of Romford to balance the tobacco given to the men. The “ration” is four ounces a week. Pistol-shot starts at the Univer■filv boat race wore first introduced in 1841, because the year previous Cambridge iiad missed hearing the word "off,” and lost ground at the start. Fernando Esjierillo, a tanner living near Badajoz, Spain, was afraid nf being robbed. When he came home from market he put 400 pesolas (£11) into n hag which he hid in the stable. Next morning he was in his stable in time to find a confuted goat munching llie last frnguents (if the bag and contents.