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Evening Star, Issue 21170, 2 August 1932, Page 11

The Trustees of the British Museum have accepted the treasure trove found under a hedge bank at Towcdnack, Cornwall, by a labourer, who will receive a considerable sum of money as a reward for his discovery. The treasure consists of six bracelets and two torques (necklaces of twisted metal) made of pure gold, probafily about 3,000 years old. Electrotype copies of-the specimens will bo offered to the museums of Truro and Penzance.

A comprehensive scheme of restoration is to be undertaken at Alford, Lincolnshire, parish church, as a memorial to tlie late Canon Warren, for forty-seven years rector. Two-thirds of the people convicted of crime in Britain in 1930 were loss than thirty years of age; two-fifths were still in their teens. The total number of convictions was 56,767.