NEWS IN BRIEF.
Two church army hats have boon eroded in Palestine. Two local curates are acting as drivers on Chatham tramway ears. Arrangements have been made to deport all the Germans from Liberia. Zinc money will shortly be ,minted in Germany .to replace silver and nicked coins. Gabriele d’Annunzio has received a further silver medal for valour as a liaison ollicer. Among English people, dark brown hair is more than twice as common as hair of any other shade. One and a-quarter million women are staled to be engaged in men’s places on the British railways. The premiums paid to Lloyd's in 1913 amounted to £12,000,000, while last year they were £.35,000,000. Italy’s war expenditure to March 31st was £728,000,000, and the monthly outlay now averages £50,000,000. , A new railway from Assiniboia to Vantage, Saskatchewan, is being built by the Canadian Pacilic Bailway Company. Norway’s first vessel built of steel and cement, popularly, called “the stone ship,” will be completed this month. German cigar manufacturers are now obliged to deliver 75 per cent, of their output to the military authorities. Included in the prizes at a whistdrive at Limehouse were (wo halfhundredweights of potatoes and Illb of sugar. Six sons of an inhabitant of Hunger ford are in the army, navy, and (lying services, and three have gained the D.S.O. Six hundred inhabitants of Mons were taken to Douai, where they were treated as prisoners of war, and sent to work in the trenches. Guns taken by the crew of a IJboat from a British merchantman have been brought to Berlin and placed in front of the Admiralty Buildings, It is announced that the campaign to obtain funds for (he military work of the Canadian Y.M.C.A. in Prance and England has realised £200,000. Two hundred and fifty workers employed at a munitions factory at Issellmrg (Westphalia) have come out on strike for better food and higher wages. General Joffre has been presented at Philadelphia with a marshal’s baton cut from the rafters of the hall in.which the Declaration of Independence was signed. 'faking an average, the policemen of the United Kingdom arc maintained at it cost of about £IOO a year each. Roughly speaking, (here is one for every 10 square miles. Two thousand letters, each describing at length a solution of the submarine menace, have been received by the consulting board of the United Slates Navy Board. It is reported from Salonika that all classes of Turkish gendarmie are being mobilised in order to till (he gaps in the Turkish Army, which are chieJly the results of epidemics. Every inch of railway line in Englaml may be said to have cost 12s, every mile £38,000. 1( is interesting to remember that English railways are three (inns as costly as those of America. Six pictures sold at Christie’s recently realised over 1,500 guineas each. Reynolds’ portrait of Miss Thehodosia Magill sold for 2,000 guineas, and Iloppnor's “Lady Lawson” for 2,000 guineas, In the Bill to be presented to (he Reichstag supplementing (his year’s Budget, (he Imperial Chancellor is empowered to raise a credit of £500,000,000 for non-recurring extra ordi n ary expenses. In spite of the disturbance to collections caused by the war, the income of the Hospital Saturday Fund in England from January 9th to June Kith was £12,232, as compared with £11,589 in the same period last year.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1731, 18 September 1917, Page 1
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561NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1731, 18 September 1917, Page 1
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