NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1820, 30 April 1918, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Portobcllo Pier, on the Firth of Forth, is to be demolished. The pier stretches a quarter of a mile seaward, and is the finest structure of its kind in Scotland. Both in the number of subscribers and the amount —over £1,000,000,000 —the second American liberty loan is described as the largest in the history of the world. Government figures show that for the last few years the price of bread in the United States has been steadily raising through a reduction in the size of the loaf. Proposals are under consideration at Birmingham for the establishment in different' parts of the city of entertainments for the education and instruction of children. Japanese children begin to go to school when six years old. During the first four years they learn Japanese and Chinese; in the next four every child has to learn English. Wales is the richest part of the kingdom in mineral wealth. England produces annually about £2 to each acre; Scotland a Jitlle Jess; but the pVoduct of Wales is over £-1 per acre. • The Governor of the Straits Settlements reports that £91,700 has been collected and remitted to the British Red Cross Society as the outcome of the “Our Day” movement in the Straits Settlements and Unfederated Malay States of Kelantan, Trengganu, and Kedah.