NEWS IN BRIEF.
Reports from missionaries in Ispahan state that, owing to the drought, the price of wheat, which is most difficult to obtain at all, has greatly increased. Most of the roads are still unsafe. Husbands are said to be divorcing their wives because they cannot give them bread.
Beacby Head is one of the highest of the English cliffs. Its summit is 564 ft. above the sea. The Welsh coast has several cliffs higher than Beacby Head. Holyhead is no less than 719 ft,, and Great Ormes Head 078 feet. St. Catherine’s Cliff, Isle of Wight, beats all these. It is 830 feet high.
Despatches from Kimberley disclose another romance of the diamond fields. Two lucky diggers, working on claims at Gong Gong, have discovered diamonds to the total value of nearly £IO,OOO sterling, several of the stones being over 70 carats. A chicken reared in the locality was found, on being killed, to have a half-carat stone in its crop.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1834, 1 June 1918, Page 4
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163NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1834, 1 June 1918, Page 4
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