NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19133, 26 September 1925, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

There are now ns many motor-cars as horses in the United States.

The most northerly wheat farm in the world is at Fort Yukon in Alaska.

Eighteen million oranges recently arrived in England from South Africa during ten days. A firm of Oxford tailors has received a cheque in settlement of a bill incurred forty years ago Buenos Aires which is easily the biggest city south of the Equator, now has a population of 2,300.000 Harrow School'? swimming pool, known as " The Dueker," where Byron swam, is to be opened to the public. In a teuni competition in England re* eeutlv th nami of the lady who won the prize- was Miss Racket. One of the ancient crosses erected by monks as a guide across Dartmoor has been thrown over by vandals. A £IOOO bank note has been received as an anonymous gift by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Lord Rowallan hat presented the London County Council with 14 acres of land as a recreation ground for Woolwich. Worknci repairing the church tower at Toddingtoi, Bedfordshire, found a swarm of bees and lewt. of honey. While alterations ure being carried out at Nantgarw Collieries, South Wales, over 750 men will be idle for 12 months. Mr. W. Robinson, of Mansfield Woodhouse, Notts, aged 90 years, sang a solo at the annual Feast Sunday service. The glas called the tumbler was originally round-bottomed, and if set down would tumble about on this round bottom. A shark 15 feet long, which had been causing alarm to Teignmouth bathers, was caught in a net and then lassoed. Six children were lost by their parents on Hampstead Heath on tno last August Bank Holiday, but were all claimed at the polico station. Mr. Alfred J. Kemp and Miss Lilian M. Vincent, both deaf and dumb, were married at St. Alban's Church, Portsmouth, recently. M Christian Micheison, who was Primo Minister of Norvay has left his fortuno, about £225,000, to found a school lor scientific research. An Aldoishot manufacturer who used to make 7000 clay pipes a week has just gono out of business because clay pipes are out of date. The cottarre at Edmondtou where the poet Keats worked as an apprentice to a surgeon i. to be destroyed to allow the road to bo widened. A tramcar tunnel which is to bo built in Rome wil. pass under the Capitoline Hill and end neai the Tnrpcian Rock, opposite the Forum There were found lately in a rat burrow in a Hull garden 42 chickens and two ducks, all freshly killed, and half a stone of new potatoes. After working in a Derbyshire coalmine for 50 years without an accident, a 65-year-old miner has been killed by a runaway tr;u. in the pit. Mr. A. V. Roe. who made the first [light over British Boil in a machine ho built himself, h"s given his first ti-iplane to the South Kensington Museum. There is a majority of about six to one in favour cf the union of the Wosleyari, the Primitive Methodist, and the. United Methodist Churches in Britain. Triplets, all boys, Have been bom at Yarmouth to fill's. Last, th® wiW of an unemployed butlher. The mother is only twenty-one, but has two other children. Mr. Ann Mrs William Smith, of Clothall, Hertfordshire, who celebrated their golden wedding recently, have lived in the same house ever since they were married. There many kinds of fisb in the Sea of Galilee, including various species of these families: barbus, chromis, nemachilus, capoeta, discognathus, blencius, and clarias. A Cardiff man who died in January has left property valued at £4947. Of this he gives 2s 9d to his wife. The rest of the property is shared between his mother, brother and sisters. Prince Paul Esterhazy, the richest magnate of Hungary, has installed on his estate a potted meat factory which he is personally Bupei intending. He has joined tho Butchers' Union.. A pensioned soldier who was defendant in a nouse possession case at Nflwton Abbot told the judge he had 13 children, had been under 70 doctors, and was easily upset by little things, Mrs. Sarah Bolton, of Shiltoii, Warwickshire, who lately entertained 200 school children in celebration of her 100 th birthday anniversary, has lived in tho village all her life, and has never seen the sea. ' The London Metropolitan Asylums Board has decided to replace oakum-picking in casual ward 3 by wood-sawing, chopping and bundling. Inmates are to be allowed two hours a day to do their own washing and cleaning. An inmate at the Donegal Mental Hospital,, who has been acting as engineer to the hospital, is regarded by tho chairman of the committee as an absolute genius. He has saved the committee over £IOOO by his capability. A Dundee law clerk, Mr. George Hanton, has bequeathed nearly tho whole of his estate of £s2tf to the Government " in consenuenr- of the financial difficulties that may overtake my country in consequence of tho war." Two members of tho Viking Rowing Club, Denmark, recently reached Folkestone after rowing from Calais in a twooared racing skiff. They had had to pull hard fot nine hours to reach the English coast against strong tides. Tourists climbing in the Tyrolese Alps found in the neighbourhood of the Ulm hut a valuable gold watch and chain. The owner proved to be Count Zeppelin, a relative of the airship constructor, who lost it 12 years ago when on a ski-ing tour. Probate has been granted of tho will of tho eleventh Marquis of Grimaldi, at ono time a butcher in Smithfield Market, who mads an unsuccessful claim to the throne of tho Princo of Monaco. Ho died last September, leaving property in England valued at £176. There was one cricketing record made by Grace which Hobbs is never likely to equal. In making his hundredth century, which was 288 for Gloucester against Somerset, " W. G's " defence throughout his innings was so masterly that only four balls got past him to tho wicketkeeper. At a recent Drapery Exhibition in London a novelty in stockings was on view. By daylight they appear to be ornamented with green clocks and yellow flowers, but at night the designs appear luminous, as thoy are painted in phosphorescent material. Tho miituro used is stated to be a secret. Ordinary life insurance sales in Canada in June were the highest ever recorded in any month. The total sales of tha reporting companies, which have 83 per cent, of thu outstanding business, amounted to 42,307,000 dollars of instance. This :s 23 per cent, more than 6ales in June last year. A honeymoon ori an Atlantic liner, whic\ sailed from Liverpool lately, is the result of a romantic engagement betwoen a Canadian farmer and a k?" ca * hlr £ Mr. Robert Erskine, of Alberta, b «-amo engaged to Miss Annie Tipp, ° . , field, as tho result of an introd "^'. 1 n letter by a mutual friend. Until bridegroom's arrival at BriorfieW. for wedding, the pa.r oot met Mr. Erskino is a native of Aberdeen.