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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1113, 28 April 1911, Page 8

According to the "Statistical Abstract for the British Empire in each year from 181)5 to 1909," just issued, Sydney comes seventh on the list of the "great % rn-°nnn h °T En - pir , e with a Population of 600,000. It is the largest city oversea, if the cities of India are |not taken "£,°n;Y ount , Mc)bo '"'"e is tenth, with f>62.000 people, and Montreal eleventh, with 500,000. It is interesting to note that tho most intensely congested area in the Empire is Hong Kong, which has a population of 9,557.0 to the square mile. The most sparsely inhabited area is the Falkland Islands," with 0.3 to the square mile. The total value of the Umpire's trade in 1909 was £1,596,000,000, of which 75.2 per cent, was foreign, and the balance inter-Imperial. Tho total tonnage of the Empire's shipping is 13,3-18,013.

A witness at London Sessions recently was asked how he managed to know tho lime if ho had not a watch, replied that, on Sunday afternoons, he stopped in a public-house till it closed, and then he knew- it was three o'clock. He took a walk along the canal and, as soon as tho public-houses opened, he knew that it was six o'clock.

The date, of the show for the JMOOO prize offered by Hie "Daily Mail" for Hiebest bunch of sweet peas' has been fixed for July 28 and 29. It was desired to find a date which would suit, so far as was possible, allparts of the British Isles; and the very end of July was generally dccided to bo Hie best. '

Prpfessor Sir J. Thompson slated at the Royal Institution recently that lie had estimated the temperature of Mars to be 38 decrees below freezing point, "which," he added, "would seem rather unfortunate for the canals." .