NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1848, 4 July 1918, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Aboul 10,000 varieties of fish are

Known. Ottawa, in Canada, is 3,540 miles from London. In 1502 velvet was commonly used for bookbinding. Envelopes have only been in use for a hundred years. There are 100,000 miles of railways in the British Empire. Quebec’s forest lands cover an area of over 100 million acres. All citizens of Brazil have the, franchise except soldiers and beg.gars. Over’ a hundred peerages have been created in the past fifty years. France in times of peace makes nearly 26,000,000 pairs of gloves yearly. Sugar-growing, next to raining, is the greatest industry in South Africa.

Homo Rule for Ireland was first mooted by an organised association in 1870. Less than cue-third of the world’s 700,000 miles of railways is Stateowned. *

Windows were taxed in England from 1695 to 1851, and tiles from 1784 to 1833. •

Three hundred and sixty mountains in the United States arc over 10,000 ft. in height. The two most populous cities in the British Empire are London and Calcutta.

Last year 0,624 motor cars were exported from the United States to various parts of Asia. The greatest number of wickets obtained by a wicket-keeper in a first-class match is twelve. Indian soldiers in France last year had 14,278 bottles of hair oil from the Indian Soldiers’ Fund.