NEWS IN A NUTSHELL’

Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1935, Page 13 (Supplement)

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL’

THE WORLD AT A GLANCE

Restoration of the dock Tower of the British Houses of Parliament, fast completed, has cost £BO,OOO. Guests at a White House dinner et Washington heard a lecture on “The Romance of the English Inn.” Mr. James Barnett has completed TO years as a bell-ringer at Northallerton parish church. A young barber in Budapest claims ' to have set up a world’s record by shaving a customer in 39 seconds. The bones of a million men were ground up and used as building material in constructing the White Bones Towers of Liang Chow, Chine. The first Rugby, footballs were of no fixed shape or size; they varied according to the pig’s- bladder inside the leather. v Limewash has been extensively used on London buildings as it protects the stonework from corrosion by acids in the air. 1 The German Supreme Court decided that a husband is entitled to a divorce, if it is proved that his wife has slandered Herr Hitler. . In Britain private schools, which are not subject to inspection, are estimated to number about 10,000, with 370,000 pupils. Britain is short of schoolmasters; there is only one to every fifty boys, while there is a school-mistress to every twenty-five girls. Large snails are friends to man in cleaning plants of green-fly. They get under the leaves where if is often, difficult to spray. Wheat production in’ England and Wales in 1934 is estimated to. have increased by 11 per cent, as compared with that in 1933. Divorce statistics go to prove that, in Australia at least, more couples separ- , ate in the twenty-fourth year of marriage than in the first. During his year of office the Lord Mayor of London will spend from £20,600 to £30,000 in maintaining the dignity and hospitality of his position. In Wednesbury Parish Church the lectern shaft shows a bird representing the fighting cock of Wednesbury (the Wedgebury Cockin); the date is about . ~ the fourteenth century. The Cairo First Aid Society last year treated 10,643 persons for injuries received during quarrels and 7624 .for scorpion stings. Injuries from all other causes were much fewer. James Miles, of Southampton, Britain’s most vigorous centenarian, is 104. He is proud of having 'lived longer than his. father, who died at the age of 103 years, 11 months. • Jewish anglers are to be refused licences to fish in the waters, of the lakes and rivers around Berlin. As no . fishing is permissible without these licences, this sport will be closed to Jews. With her bow low in the water and listing slightly to starboard, the British steamer, Tower Bridge, which, struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic, .limped into Halifax,' Nova Scotia, recently. The famous English horseman, Steve z Donoghue, states that Brown Jack is his favourite horse, Humorist was the gamest, Gay Crusader the best, The Tetrarch the fastest, , and the slowest— Tishy. “Cannibals won’t eat people who smoke—they think it impairs their flavour,” declared Dr. Edgar de la Rue, French geologist, when he landed in New York on his way to the cannibal islands of the New Hebrides. Locked away in the strong-room of the Diamond Corporation is the fourth largest diamond w in the world. It is the size of a hen’s egg, is worth i £lOO,OOO, and costs roughly £6O a week in inr surance and non-productive capital. As a sign of the bonds of friendship uniting Spain and Japan, the Japanese Government has sent a gift of 240 cherry trees, the national plant of Japan, to the Madrid City Council. They have been planted in the public parks. ’ » A daring robbery was recently carried out on the Paris-bound Orient Express as it passed through Yugoslavia. Between Novska and Zagreb 7 bandits entered the post van, lockdd up the French guard, and opened ana looted 11 bags of international mail.