NEWS AND NOTES.
Somehody with plenty of time and a liking for figures has discovered that the total number of copies of newspapers printed throughout (lie world in one year is 12,000,000,000. To print these requires 781,24 C tons of paper, or 1,749,977,0001b5, while it would take the fastest press 833 years to print a single yea’s edition, which would produce a stack of papers nearly 50 miles high. The discovery of a valuable coalfield in Rhodesia is confirmed. It extends over at least 400 square miles and it is estimated that 1,500,000,000 tons of coal will be available. It has been decided to take the Cape-to Cairo Railway through the centre of the coalfields and on to the Victoria Falls. The Manawatu Standard relates that Mr A. J. Cobh, twenty years ago, had, as a boy, fired a large kidney bean into his 1 ft ear, and as it had become embedded in the organ, ho was quite deaf in that ear. A few days ago he felt something cuming out of his ear, and with some trouble, brought forward the missing bean. Mr Cobb is quite delighted to find that his hearing is now completely restored. Mr John Taylor, one of the oldest natives ofiParamata, boasts of a peculiar experience. He was standing at the corner of Church and George streets in the old town late in 1837, when the town crier made the announcement that King William IV. was dead and that Queen Victoria was Queen. Ho was standing on the same spot when the news of the death of Queen Victori a was brought to him. Dr Mason, chief health officer, has informed Mr Ell, M. 11. R. that tuberculosis has been put upon the list of diseases of which notification must be made to the local health olfie.r. The New South Wales Government Statistician estimates the defence forces of the Commonwealth at. 23,553 men, and of Australasia (including New Zealand) at 30,583.
Napier has at last entered the list binter exporting ports, the Mahora Dairy Factory having sent Home 20 cases of butter in the cool chamber of the s.s. Selkirkshire.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19010323.2.30
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 23 March 1901, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
356NEWS AND NOTES. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 23 March 1901, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
No known copyright (New Zealand)
To the best of the National Library of New Zealand’s knowledge, under New Zealand law, there is no copyright in this item in New Zealand.
You can copy this item, share it, and post it on a blog or website. It can be modified, remixed and built upon. It can be used commercially. If reproducing this item, it is helpful to include the source.
For further information please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in