NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1822, 4 May 1918, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

With ti radio station at Belize, British Honduras has been given wireless communication with the rest of the world. According to the latest income tax returns, there are 82 people in England whose incomes exceed £IOO,000 a year. The Zeppelin is the only engine of war that is peculiarly and exclusively German by invention and con-

trivance, and it is a failure. The Nile has the fewest tributaries, for it is a feature peculiar to that river that for 1,500 miles it receives no aifluent whatever.

A book purchased for four pence in Farringdon Road, London, was found to contain a £5 note and two shillings’ worth of stamps. Mr Thomas Hester, Eton’s (England) oldest inhabitant, who walked six miles daily until recently, has died, aged ninety-one. At certain points in Sweden’s lumber district where there arc sulphite factories, lubricating oils arc now being made from liquid resin. It is officially announced in Washington that the Ordnance Department of the United States'Army is being reorganised, along British lines. Recent tests made of a Jirc-proof varnish for aeroplane wings arc said to have been so successful that fire-proof aircraft may be an early possibility. A young woman in Cheshire, England, has been appointed acting surveyor to a local rural council, to take the place of her brother, who is a soldier. The Marquess of Milford-Havcn, better known as Admiral Prince Louis of Baltenberg, is appointed Rede Lecturer at Cambridge for the present year.