NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1872, 3 September 1918, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The last horse-drawn steam lireoagiiie in London has gone. Egyptian onions Avere recently sold at Is per Ih. at Manchester. The son of a Chatham sailor has l)Oon christened “Zeebrugge.” Nojepaper for the troops costs the Y.M.C.A. £OO,OOO per annum, A cargo of 0,000 tons of tohaeee Avon Id yield £5,500,000 to the British Treasury. A large hotel for (ho sole aeeonn I modal ion of Chinamen is to he built in Chicago. America is manufacturing pianos at the rale of 300,0(10 annually, and importing none. 70,000 workers and £37,000,000 of capital are involved in the British musical industry. It is estimated that the yearly damage done to food by rats in England is close on £40,000,000. Building' societies fnlnish an average of £9,000,000 a year to pro-' vide workers with their own homes. As many as 18,000 people used Liverpool Street station, London, during one half-hour in the day. Over a million and a-half horses haA'e been purchased in Hie United Slates for sendee Avith the allies. A half-eroAvn of the reign of Charles 1. (1(i25-1(»48) has been found at Bordon camp (Aldershot district). The War Office saved (10,000 tons of steel hy using wood pulp hoard instead of tin for the soldiers’ jam rat ions. Indian and Chinese coolies at the front can hear aeroplanes long before Hie British, and give valuable warning. Several French municipal councillors are proposing to mum l a great Paris thoroughfare after President Wilson, There are 4,50(1,(100 horses engaged in this Avar. On the Avestern front the losses have averaged 47,000 horses a month. Mr Charles M. Schwab, as the director of shipbuilding in the United Stales, Avill have under him more than 450,000 men. A bundle of letters from Lewis Carroll made £3O at a Red Cross sale at Guildford, and a bottle of King’s ale fetched £7. Two thousand four hundred American college students have been enrolled for'work in shipyards for the duration of the war. A iieAV gold coin, a 15-rupee piece, is now being issued to the public in India. The coin is of the same weight as the sovereign. Nearly three-quarters of a million Avomen are hoav actively employed under the Ministry of Munitions, and more than nine-tenth of the whole of the .manufacture of shells is due to the labour of Avomen.