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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1733, 3 July 1917, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Under the Continental system nine men and three horses may ho quartered on each household. • Opium is without doubt the most valuable known drug; mercury and quinine probably come next in value. The depth of water affects considerably the speed of steamers, which are found to move more slowly in. shallow waters. At an auction sale in Liverpool, England, six lewt. sacks of granulated sugar fetched an average of lOd per pound. Black Country puddlers arc now earning 17s 6d a ton, a rate of 3s in excess of the previous high record following the war of 1870. There is abundant evidence that German secret, service money is still finding its way into Great Britain in large quantities. The German Emperor, according to a Philadelphia newspaper, is exceptionally susceptible on the temptation of well-buttered toast. About 10,500,000 of the American people are engaged in agriculture, and over 7,000,000 iii manufacturing and mechanical pursuits. Since the outbreak of war ammunition and firearms valued at £IOO,000,000 have been imported to Great Britain from the United States. Captain J. H. Barberry, of the United States army aviation section, declares that all aerial war raids 'will be done at night in the near future. The American Secretary of State, recently-received in Washington M. Michaelovitch, the first .Minister ever accredited by Servia to the United States. The Caledonian Club, of St. James’ Square, London, has lost 140 of its members in action; while more than 600 others are serving on various fronts. One day’s cost of the war, says the Birmingham Jewellers’ Trade Protection Society, would provide sufficient bullion for the jewellery trade for 12 months. Dr. R. 11. Clark, of the University of British Columbia, states that a single issue of a New York newspaper’s Sunday edition involves 15 acres of forest. The title of doctor was invented for the special benefit of the learned Inernius, of the 12th century. The title was conferred by the "University of Bologne. The Chelmsford detachment of the Essex Volunteer Regiment has gbtained possession of an acre of ground in the borough, and is arranging to cultivate it as a market, garden. Good reports have been received in Petrograd of the w&rk. of the motor sleigh detachment engaged in the transport of the wounded on the light flank of the northern front. Miniature aeroplanes, with bodies of cartridge eases, wheels of Belgian nickel halfpennies,-and wings of bully-beef tin, are the latest souvenirs made by onr soldiers in France. The “Peace bloomer,” composed of one-third part of French vermouth, Italian vermouth, and English- gin, with a dash of' orange juice, is the name of the latest New York cocktail. - The president of the. British Law Society states that 2,689 solicitors and 1,435 articled clerks are recorded as being on military service. The great majority joined voluntarily. Herat, in Afghanistan, is the city which has been most often destroyed. Fifty-six times have its walls been laid in ruins, and the same number of times have they been erected again. < “Open air is the cure for nervousness,” said the military representative at the Yarmouth Tribunal to a man who said he would make a pretty poor soldier, as he suffered from nerves. One hundred South Africans, selected under the auspices of the War Office for service in (he Royal Flying Corps, will si art for England shortly. received. Saccharin, Germany’s emergency sweetening, is a white powder derived from coal tar. It is about 360 times as sweet as sujjar, but has <tio food value, and may prove dangerous to health. Sir W. T. 'White, Canadian Minister for Finance, announces that the system of war loan certificates for small amounts has been a success, and that a sum of more than £IOO,000 has already been taken. If the new calling-up order is carried out in its entirety, says the Shoe and Leather News, half the boot factories in Northampton will have to close down, and £5,000,000 trade will be lost to the country.