NEWS IN BRIEF

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22142, 22 June 1935, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF

There are 3485 actors and 3918 actresses in London alone. Indian silkworms have been transported to Africa to help the silk industry there. A Hamburg woman has been granted a divorce on the ground that her husband was a Communist. Eleven coal miners were seriously injured at Eysden, in Belgium, recently, when a lift-cage feii 2000 ft. Of all the ships sailing under the British flag, less than one-fifth are i more than twenty years; old. The greatest parade of the mechanised j forces ever seen in Britain took place i on Salisbury Plain' las.t month. Sir. Henry Coombes, at. the age of 92, is EtilJ in active service as a bellringer at Ryde, Isle of Wight. British motorists pay annually £5,200,000 into the national purse in the form of taxation on their cars. Aeroplane factories in Germany are now turning out one complete machine —liner, bomber, or sports—every day. The British film " The Scarlet Pimpernel " has been passed by the German censor as " artistically valuable." About 1000 journalists have been struck off the registers in Germany because they are not of the pure race. A Nuremburg book-dealer was sent to prison for a year for having a Dutch paper with reports of the Reichstag fire. A gigantic iron sword 40ft. high is the form of a memorial at Bochum, in the Ruhr district, to workers killed in the war. Motor-coaches licensed in London increased in number from sixty-five in 1920 to 3000 at the beginning of this year. _An exhibition of paintings by Prince Nicholas of Greece, father of the Duchess of Kent, was recently opened in London. A Yorkshire farmer's wife, starting a poultry farm in -1913 with a capital of £5, had by the end of 1934 made a profit of £BOOO. A New Jersey Act, aimed at Nazi proceedings, prohibits the dessemination of propaganda against any race, colour or religion. Dr. Abraham Groves, reputed to be the first surgeon to operate for the removal of the appendix, died recently in Canada, aged 87. An Italian miner was sentenced in France to a year's imprisonment for suffocating his son, aged seven, whom he locked in a chest. Leverhulme is entitled to £79,000 under the will of his uncle, IVtr. John Hulme, of Sharpies, near Bolton, who died last January. More than £7.000,000 is to be expended and 10.000 workless engaged on a land reclamation scheme along the coast of Schleswig-Holsrtein. A stained glass "King George V. window." commemorating the Jubilee, was dedicated at the ancient chapel o£ the Savoy, Strand, Loudon. Turkey is to introduce the F/np-Tkh "week-end," with the sicoption of Sunday as the official day of rest, instead of the present Islamic Friday. A collection of pictures of inventions and developments during the King's reign is being shown at the Science Museum at South Kensington. The Carnegie United Kingdom Trust recently announced a five-year plan lor spending £150,000 on land settlement and £30,000 on sei-rioes to youth. The King and Queen of the Belgians opened last month the 22-mile AntwerpHerenthals section of the Albert Canal, which is to link Antwerp and Liege. A remarkable exhibition of portraits of the Kings and Queens of England since 1066 was recently opened in London in aid of the Jubilee Trust Fund. A special commemorative stamp was used on the occasion of the opening on May 15 of the new air-mail lines between Paris-Bordeaux and Paris-Lille. Galen Gough, a professional "strong man," recently completed a 30-day fast, at Los Angeles, during which he drank 1030 glasses of beer and ate nothing. Two young German workers have been sentenced at Stettin to seven and four months' imprisonment respectively for making insulting remarks about Herr Hitler. The snake's apparent flashing speed is said to be an optical illusion. Its reputation for speed is based on the deceptive grace of its smooth, fluent, undulatory gliding. Last month fruit was sold for remarkably high prices at Covent Garden, London; imported hothouse grapes realised 15s a pound, and English melons 6s to Ss each. Large incomes are decreasing in number in Britain. The number of per- ; sons with incomes of more than £30.000 fell from 1160 to 897 during a recent period of three month! i. The Kmg expressed his personal gratitude to the medical profession when he opened the Post Graduate School attached to the London County Council Hospital at Hammersmith. Eight cubic feet of Newfoundland granite are to be used in the. French memorial at Boulogne to soldiers of the British Empire, which will contain stone from ail the Dominions. Out of the 2,311,000 of London's inhabitants who go to work every day, 414,000 are employed in hotels, restaurants, hairdressers, domestic work and other forms of personal service. The national income of Britain is £809,379.000, of which £228,932,000 comes from property and income tax, £179,177,000 from customs duties, and £107,000,000 from excise duties. A new bridge over the Little Belt, between Jutland and Funen, which was opened by King Christian recently, will mean a saving of seven hours for travellers from Harwich to Copenhagen. During the Internationa! Women's Congress at Istanbul, Miss Muriye Idris, an Egyptian delegate fighting for women's rights, became engaged to an official of the Egyptian Consulate. • The first representative of a foreign Power to assume permanent residence in Mecca will be the Co'nsular Agent of the Union of South Africa, who is likely to take cp office there within the next few month;;. The United States Radio Corporation is to spend £200,000 "to take television out of the laboratory.' 1 Part, of the prolamine of development will be to construct the first modern television plant in the country. A Catholic priest has been fined £SO at Bonn for making derogatory remarks in his church about the Hitler Youth, and for discussing the affairs of the State "in a m; inner likely to cause a breach of the psace." " An old lady of Buckinghamshire who has been making lace at her cottage door for 85 years has died. She was Mrs. Rachel Rust of Wavendon, who since she was nine kept up the old custom of lacemaking ;introduced into the county by Catherine of Ara^on.