NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1890, 15 October 1918, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Boers may not vole at Parliamentary elections.

An orange tree will bear,fruit tih 150 vears old.

Over 3,000 South Africans are in the Royal Air Force. Australia has sold 15,000 tons of wheal to a neutral country. The American soldier on leave in England gels 10s a day ration money. Nearly 60 towns have subscribed over £1,000,000 each in war bunds. Over £30,000,000 has been spent by America on railways in France. It will cost £5,000,000 to restore London’s roads to pre-war condition. A machine-gun in operation will use up a bale of cotton in three months. Only ltd has been spent on alcohol at West Ham Workhouse since March 1017. America is manufacturing pianos at the rate of 300,000 annually, and importing none. A French wedding no longer roi|iiires parental consent between the ages of 21 and 30. Four hundred and forty-six Y.C.’s and two with bars, have been awarded during the war.

The parts of an average biplane total 20,00(1. In Ibo ease of a seaplane there are 41,500.

Graduates of McGill University, Canada, are to raise £4OO a year for a Chair of Social Service.

Last year 533,833 eases of measles and German measles were notified in England and Wales. The railway from Singapore to Bangkok, about 1,000 miles, is now open for passenger (rallie. Birmingham is collecting about (JOO tons of old tins a year, and selling the recovered 1m at £3OO a ton.

Six persons have been arrested for alleged smuggling of alcohol from Montreal to Toronto in tea caddies.

II lakes over 20,000 hales a year |o provide ahsorlieiil codon to -Paunch and hind the wounds ofihe injured.

A ■ fox terrier, a tortoiseshell eat. and a while rabbit, mascots at a camp in France, nil sleep in the same kennel.

One change of apparel for all (lie I mops now engaged in Ihe war represents move - Ilian a million limes of cotton.

A person begins to lo>c height at the age of fifty, and at the age of ninelv has lost at lea-I one and a half inches.

Years ago a man ini rodm-ed to Ihe world a thin copper strip for protecting shoe lips, and received CHOO.OOO in royalties.

The sun's light is equal to '),;)(i3 wax eandles at 3 Cl. from the eye. It would lake 800,000 full moons to equal eloudless sunshine.

Seven hundred tons of paper wore used in printing the (id. 000,000 new ration hooks. Nearly 8,000 people were engaged on the work'.

In a naval battle, like the one off Jutland, from live to six thousand pounds of notion a minute are consumed by each live warships.

The Prince of Wales’ Fund lias icached a total of ,f(i,4'J2,H.‘5S. Of this sum £8,911.111 S has been allocated to date for distribution for relief.