NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1716, 24 May 1917, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Two wounded Anzacs were bridegroom and best man in a wedding at Weybridge. They had enlisted together in 1914, and fought together in Gallipoli, Egypt, and France, where both were seriously wounded, From almost all parts of the Rhine province it is officially reported that a great decline in the supply of potatoes is to be feared. The problem is serious not only in the Rhineland, but in Hanover, Saxony, Pomerania, Posen, and West and East Prussia. Referring to the practice of weighing paper with tea, Mr J. E.

Johns, a director of the Co-opera-tive Wholesale Society, said at a meeting recently' that it would have made a difference of £210,000 in the profits of the society had they followed the example of most other traders.

The Diet of the Duchy of SaxeCoburg Gotha, whose present- ruler is the son of the Duchess of Albany', is about to pass a law “whereby the members of the Ducal house who belong to a non-German State shall lose the right of succession if their ‘home State’ makes war on the German Empire.”

Of the 347,205 acres under the charge of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests last year, (50,097 were growing timber. The profit was £550,000. Small holdings and allotments covered 9,787 acres out of a total of 73,183 acres of agricultural land in England.

Plans have been submitted to the New Jersey Legislature whereby the State should take over the catch of the fishermen and place the fish in storage houses along the coast. The fish would then be sold to dealers at cost price. It is estimated that about 47,000,0001 b, of fish were caught off the New Jersey coast in 191(5.

European countries took (5(5 per cent. —valued at £7(52,724,200 —of United States exports in 1910. United States exports to South American countries increased from £28,825,000 in 1915 to £44,057,000 iind shipments to Asiatic ports increased from £29,941,200 to £72,040,200, but much of the Asiatic shipments went on to Russia. What is described as the highwater mark of cinema production is displayed in a new American film. All the scenes are laid in Jamaica, and a large tract of barren land was adapted for the purposes of the film. A swamp around Fort; Angus to was reclaimed; a stone and

concrete city was built; to malm a plain large enough for the encampment of an army of 20,000 people a range of hills was levelled; and a mountain stream was diverted from its original course to form a beautiful waterfall. In Jamaica over £200,000 was spent, the weekly roll being about £4,000.