NEWS IN BRIEF

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 54, 8 July 1938, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

A Stepney, man has died as Abe result of inhaling slate dust pockets in billiard tables.

Practically one-fourth of all.moves made by an average sleeper are attributed. to hunger. .

Brighton ' Council, England, lias agreed to Sunday cricket in its 'East Brighton parlq.

Turkey will .spend £1,000,000 in modernising its shipyards at Istanbul.

Guests at Mrs Neville Chamberlain’s first Downing Street “at home,” were given a, snowdrop and. dn aconite .from the 1 garden at Chequers.

A Mrs Holt, of Manchester, who recently passed away, .went to Sunday school when she was four and 1 attended the same school constantly for 7 6 years.

Following allegations that '‘ street singers are organised by “b&ss'AT’ who pay the men a regular wage, the Paddington Council, _ England, will consider making a by-law to clijal with all street musicians. •’.** i O:.

Leo Ritter, - a German businessman ■ who has held the flag of the Ninth Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers,’ as a war souvenir, since March 1918, on February*.'l visited the War Office in London, and handed it back to officers of the regiment. The propelling power of a whale enormous, and no ’Jaceiiiate esinftattS& can be made of it. One Tnstaifce is recorded of* a blue whale that towed a steamer, by the for 24 hours, despite the fact that the ship’s engines were in reverse. ' . ■.« An African pilgrim has just reached Jiddah, Red Sea port—after travelling for 90. years. He begSn his journey from Kano, Western Africa j took 50 years to reach Khartoum (just before the death of General Gordon); now 120 years old, the pilgrim hopes to return home—by air.