NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1832, 28 May 1918, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Blot lino’ paper is made ot‘ col ton rags boiled in soda. There are 14,000 people in Great Britain with incomes over .C‘2,000 and under £5,000 a year.

In pre-war days 40 per cent, of the meat consumed in Great Britain was iujported. In future official Austrian documents, the word “Ukrainian” must be employed instead of “Ruthenian.” Rubies of the true pigeon-blood colour are so rare that they are worth ten times their weight in diamonds. With ten pairs of revolving discs, a static electric machine has been built in Paris that has developed 320,000 volts. A Scotch scientist has discovered a new metal believed to belong to the platinum group, which he has named canadium. Italian soldiers use grease and glasses to protect their eyes and faces against the glare of the sun in their Alpine fights. It is calculated that Hie Russian commercial marine, which lias been declared nationalised, approaches a million tons. Already 87 committees and commissions have been set up to deal with questions which will arise at the close of the war. The Grand Cross of the Order of the Saviour has been conferred by King Alexander of Greece on General Allenby. A recent investigator proves that insects can distinguish a far.greater variety of smells than human beings can distinguish. The Nobel prize for literature has been divided between Henrik Pontappidan, novelist, and M. Gjellerup, poet, both Danes. At Hie opening of the Nova Scotian Legislature the Lieutenant-Go-vernor promised an extension of the electoral franchise to women. As the result of the simplification of divorce proceedings, 38,000 applications for divorce have been made in Petrograd since Hie Revolution. For the first time the peninsula of Labrador has been traversed from south to north by an exploring party. Previous attempts have failed.