NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20520, 22 March 1930, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mr. Long and Miss Short wore married at Manor Park, London, recently. There are in London alone 10,000 children suffering from rheumatic ailments.

The Harrow Education Committee refuses to prohibit tuck shops in schools.

BaUlesdcn, Bedfordshire, with a population of 71, has neither a public-house nor a policeman.

In the recent gales a big Turkey oak, said to be 150 years old, was uprooted in Kew Gardens.

Mudie's, the famous library, now lias more than 2,000,000 volumes and clients in all parts of the world.

A pinnacle weighing nearly a ton v.-ns blown off the top of York Minster during the first gale of the year. With 49 years' railway service, Mr. W- Thompson has retired from the stationmastership of High Wycombe. The London County Council is to proceed "with the erection of tenements in Central districts at a cost of £970.000. The chair in which Abraham Lincoln was sitting when he was shot has been sold by auction for a few hundred pounds.

The Chamber of Shipping is to urge the Government to make more use of unemployed workmen in port improvement schemes.

The Duke of Bedford is offering Ampt-, hill Park for the visit of the Princ-e of Wales to Bedfordshire Agricultural Show in Julv.

For 50 years head gardener at Egham Park, Egham, Mr. James Pickett, who has died, aged 79, served under 11 different families.

People in Britain are eating more food and in greater variety than before the war, including more eggs, cheese, nuts, fruits and sugar. The Canadian Government has presented the Johannesburg Zoo with two buffalo heifers. The zoo already posesses two buffalo bulls.

The widow, three sons, eight daughters, seven grandchildren, and two great-grand-children attended the funeral of a man, aged 78, at Pyrford, Surrey. The equestrian statue of General Botha which is to be erected in Cape Town is almost finished. Ifc is the work of Professor Romanelli, an Italian.

Owing to tl.e recent heavy gales in Europe, sea salt to the amount of 251b. to the acre has been found in Midland districts 70 miles from the sea.

Although less than one-fifth of the wheat consumed in Britain is home-growji, more than 60 per cent, of the total supply is derived from Empire sources. Brought up with his six brothers and sisters in Shoreham Workhouse, Mr. H„ G. Gravett has just been appointed clerk to the Shoreham Guardians at £SOO a year.

Black snow fell recently in Bfikescsaba, Hungary. It was found on close examination that the black colour was caused by a mass of small insects mixed with the snow.

Clean towels,, good knives and forks, better food, and daily newspapers will be provided in casual wards in England if a request from the "Minister of Health is carried out. \

A cabbage, weighing three-quarters of a hundred-weight, and thought to be the largest ever known in England, has been grown by Mr. Ernest Ede, of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire.

Among the new rolling-stock to bo , built this year by the Southern Railway -

are 20 express passeuger engines, 300 corridor coaches, 16 restaurant cars, and 2230 other trucks and vans.

The Parks Committee at Dartford,. Kent, has been anxiouS to remove the war guns from the park, but owing to the objection of the British Legion they have been merely moved to another position. / A report of the Marine Society states that last year there were 362 boys in training on the Warspite. Of these 41 have been sent to the Royal Navy, 104 to the merchant navy, and 41 to other services.

Prohibition has cost the United States of America nearly £55,000,000 in the 10 years since it came into force. On the other hand, savings-bank deposits and life assurances have increased, and more people own their own Houses. Dance halls and cinemas have proved powerful and successful rivals to the public-houses in England, where' the younger people of the country are concerned. What drunkenness still, persists is said to be among the older generation.

River pollution is increasing- in Britain. Of 81 streams examined, 45 were badly polluted, 21 slightly polluted, 13 not polluted, and two were marked " doubtful."" The damage is due to sewage, industrial waste, and oil and tar from roads.

Among the cases of food adulteration discovered by test recently in Britain have been paraffin wax in lard, sulphur in barley, maize starch in mustard, sand in mixed spice and cinnamon, zinc in cider and ice cream, and rice flour and starch in suet.

Owing to the rush of trade in some of the docks under the Port of London Authority, 'there has been a shortage of labour. At some berths, where an average of 120 men were taken on a little while ago, more than 500 liandsi have been at work.

Every year 200 nurses leave England to take up work under the Colonial Governments in remote parts of the Umpire. They have to face all sorts of emergencies, but the pay is good and the life cippeals to .trained nurses who wish' to see the world. The American Museum of Natural History is sponsoring an expedition to Africa to make sound and colour motion "pictures of jungle life. The Belgian Congo will be one of the places visited, -where the group vrill photograph > and study a race of pygmy people. . ~

Some time ago the sausage makers in Frankfurt protested against inferior sausa,ges not made in the city being called Frankfurt sausages. The Court of Appeal in Berlin has now sustained the decision of the trial court that only sausages made in Frankfurt may bear the name.

The Soviet chose the beautiful mansion of the late Mrs. Hoffmann, at' 40,- Grosvenor Square, London, as the new home of the Soviet Embassy to Great Britain. King Edward, when Prince of Wales, often visited this house, which, completely furnished, has been taken on a six months' lease.

In a new settlement near E'uisL-erg, in Germany, although there are 442 houses, there is only one chimney. All the houses are supplied with heat and hot water from one house, which occupies the middle of the settlement, cooking is done by gas. Lighting io electric.

The total capacity of now water-power installations completed and brougnt ino> operation in Canada last year amounts to 378.400 horse power, and brings the Dominion total to 5,727.600 horse-power Other undertakings under way will add ; 1.500,000 horse-power to this total in three years. English was not habitually used Jn speech or writing by any English king !i until Henry V.'s reign, 350 years after tho Norman conquest. Henry IV. at the 1 beginning of the 15th century still Wrote in French to his English tailor in London, as shown by a letter in the British Museum.