NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1886, 5 October 1918, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Engaged on tanks for use in the manufacture of margarine, a London workman recently established a new record by driving in -1,27(i rivets in a nine-hour day. The pneumatic tool used by the man Aveighed 28 Albs.

Germans are uoav using dye in their gas shells to stain the craters and thus Avarn Germans to keep clear of them as (hey advance. The gas hangs in the craters for hours after a shell has exploded.

Since the employment of women conductors, (he executive of (he London General Omnibus Company has intervicAved no feAver than 30,000 applicants, and fourteen per cent. liaA’e been accepted and passed into the service.

A thousand hostages have been lorn from their homes by (he German military authorities in Northern France, and sent to Hol/.minden They have been selected from among the notables, and included educated, refined girls.

An infantry sAvord has been presented by the United Slates to the armories of the ToAver of London. It Avill be exhibited in the same case as (he SAvords presented by (he Japanese, Belgian, French, Montenegrin, and Italian Governments.

There is a little fish Avhich haunts the Aveed tracks of the Gulf Stream, and there builds its nest and lays its eggs like a bird rather than a fish. This animal imitates in colour the weed it lives in, and, like the chameleon, constantly changes its colour.