NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1878, 17 September 1918, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Only one ship in 200 convoyed vessels has been lost. The first new potatoes that arrived in Berlin this year were sold at Is ltd a pound. Stolen Hour sacks in Buda Besth were bought at up to £2 each by dressmakers to make frocks. At least 130 Y.M.C.A. huts were lost as the result of the German offensive. All the staffs escaped. A wood-pigeon shot by a farmer near Warwick, England, was found to have eaten 737 grains of barley. Twelve motor-ambulances for the use of the American forces in France have been provided by the Salvation Army. A square emerald fetched £I,OOO, and four rows of pearls sold for more than £2,000, at a sale at auction held in London recently. The scholars of one Tottenham Council (London) school invested £1,091 in war savings certificates on the local “Tank Day.” Losses from lire in the United Slates increased over £8,000,000 last year, due to war conditions and the speeding up of industries. Shoe manufacturers of the United States have under consideration the elimination of all coloured shoes except brown, black, and while. During three days in Manitoba £200,138 was raised for the Red Cross. Besides money, one horse and 21 acres of wheat were given. Polish girls have enrolled in a corps of Amazons, pledged (o secure at least one man for Ihe Polish Army in France and provide for his comfort. A special department is being set up by the Ministry of Labour in Bril ain to Jim! civil employment for ollieer.s on relinquishing their commissions. Over two million soldiers and sailors have insured with the United States Government to the gross amount of £3,300,000,000 against war risks. It is estimated that the present; system of coal distribution in (be United Kingdom will save Hie equivalent of 700.000,000 lons being carried a mile.

Since the beginning of 1017 the output of high explosives has more than met Great Britain's demands, and enabled us to build up large stocks, and supply our Allies. A North of England vicar holds a special service al 0.15 a.m. on Sundays for allotment workers. Worshippers arc specially invited to attend in their working clothes. In one month battleship-cruisers and destroyers in Home waters steamed more than 1,000,00(1 miles, while auxiliary palrol services steamed more than (i,000,000 miles. Three members of (ho Vancouver police force have been dismissed for joining a labour union, which the chief of police wholly refuses to recognise, although 90 per cent, of the force belong to it. Another woman has been appointed as a minister, Kev. Margaret Cook, 8.A., of Oxford, having accepted a unanimous invitation from the congregation of Hie Norwich Unitarian Church to become the pastor. Whale fat is being used in Scandinavia tor the manufacture of margarine. In Denmark whale Cal has been in use ever since 101.1, hut in Norway it has not been necessary until recently to use this substitute for other fat. A resolution was passed at the closing meeting of Hie Women’s Christian Temperance Union Convention in Canada urging the Government to commandeer. 12,000,00(1 •gallons of liquor now in storage and extract the alcohol for munitions purposes. An altar of ice was used recently at an outdoor service of the Church of St. Peter and Paul, Auburn, N.Y. The service was held for the purpose of demonstrating that a fuel is unessential in connection with worship. The service also included baptismal rites. ' • The question of making Hie British military camps self-supporting in the matter of vegetables is exercising the attention of the authorities. To teed 160 men for a, year 121 tons of potatoes, besides other vegetables, are necessary, and two acres of land would bo required to grow them.