NEWS AND NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 18 March 1901, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

In Berlin no woman is allowed to ride on the top of an omnibus. A great strike of colliers has taken place in the north of Franco. One pound of sheep’s wool is capable of producing one yard of cloth. Of every 1,000 British soldiers in hospital, 101 are sufferers from bronchitis. Glasgow has spent £76,000,000 on her docks; Liverpool, £18,2000,000. The oak will not grow at a higher altitude than 350 feet, nor the fir above 6,700 feet. The world’s daily goods traffic is 10,630,000 tons, 4,610,000 of which is carried by rail. Five persons were killed and four injured by the burning of a house in Birmingham. The Krupp tlj inch gun can pierce 18 inches of steel. The British 111 inches has failed to do so. Paris has 6,000 police, London 14,000. London has 690 acres of docks; Liverpool, 560 acres. Seventy-four per cent of the British Army arc between eighteen and thirty years old. The Danube Navigation Company carry 1,300,000 passengers a year—a world’s record. The Russian Council of State has rejected a project for the Russification of the Finnish arms. Forty per cent of all the year’s deaths in London occur in December, January, and February. Seventy-eight thousand emigrants return from America every year to their old homes in Europe. An electric tram in Berlin nearly collided with the carriage occupied by the Kaiser and Kaiserina. The Britannic has left Adelaide for Freemantlc. Several of the Imperial troops were left behind. The British regular army is to be increased to over 800,000. The cavalry will be armed with rifles.

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