NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4541, 9 December 1930, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The alvera-gc of rainless days in London annually is 200. Last May was the wettest experienced in the South of England tm- 44 years. (British M’s.P. will draw £229,100 in salaries and £35,000 in travelling (expenses this year.

la an effort to stamp out bubonic plague, Argentina is to' spend £IOO,OOO on a rnt-ikilling campaign. -Mr. D. 11. Lawrence, the novelist, who died without leaving a will left £2438, “so far as can he ascertained.’'

There are 1950 private golf clubs ii. the United Kingdom, and several other clubs that use the public links.

-Jamaica's banana export last year totalled 22,000,000 stems, \ allied at £2,484,000, each figure being a record. English waiters are so greatly in demand that they are gradually ousting the foreign variety from the London market.

The unicorn in the Royal Arms was substituted by James 1. for the lied Dragon of Wales, which was introduced by Henry V.

Earthquakes on the ocean bed of the East Atlantic have caused so much upheaval that 200 square miles will have to he recharted.

Of the 80,000 tons of blended hatter sold in Great Britain every \ ear, 60,000 tons contain a proportion of inferior butter from abroad.

The safest place in Great Britain last year, where road accidents arc concerned, was the Isles of Sciliy, where there was not a single casualty.

Having been a bellringer at Dawlish, Devonshire, for 50 years, Mr. George Marehant was presented with an easy chair by his fellowringers.

: The average cost of a year’s golf in Britain works out at about .Cl a week. In America tlie corresponding' figure is about eight times as great. The. Mayor of Southampton has requested that at all official luncheons with which he is associated Australian wines, if any, shall be used.

Entries in the telephone directory of the Irish Free State are in three “languages” —English, Erse in modern lettering, and Erse in the old Irish type.

The oldest assembly in the world is thought to be the Welsh bardic congress, the Eisteddfod. The name means a “session,” or “sitting.” JL ..