NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1908, 28 November 1918, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

' A knot is a speed of one sea mile per hour. A white swallow has been seen at South Mollim, Devon. Over £30,000,0(10 has been spent by Americans on railways in France.

A'sea mile is 0,080 feet- —that, is, 800 feel longer (ban a land lyile. Harrow (Eng.) School boys are helping the local farmers in the fields.

Two out of every thousand soldiers in the American Army must have their shoes matte to order.

Herts (Eng.) County Council has allowed £I,OOO a year for supplying free milk for babies.

The City of London birth-rate last year was 7.9 per 1,000 of the population, and the death-rate 15.0.

British manufacturers have been given orders for military clothing to refit 2,000,000 American soldiers.

Sixty-four million pounds was the amount invested in War Savings Certificates in 1*917 in Great Brita-

()(' the 400,000 men employed in American shipyards nearly 80 per cent, knew nothing about shipbuilding a year ago.

American soldiers are wearing as trophies the German Emperor's iron crosses taken from German prison-

An instilulion has been organised in (Ailifoniiii Id take care of “de-

spairing nmrlals on the brink ol suicides’ graves,’’

A bank in Brooklyn, New York, was robbed of £390 by its janitor s elevon-yoav-old sou, who sneaked into I lie teller’s eage. The breeze from Hie sea in the morning is because (he hotter laud air ascends and the sea air moves landward lo lake its place. An I.W.W. meeting in Spokane, Washington, U.S.A., voted to remove the words “United Slates’’ Irom the organisation's liter;)(lire. Sales of cigarettes in the I’m ted States lbi> year may exceed -10,a 00.000.000. Tim yearly output ten yens ago wa- leJ than 0.000,000,000.

liiU'i! porcelain is now heiii” - made success I‘uliy in Ohio, I .S.A. KcI'i.iv l lie war termany and AiUslria had ii practical monopoly of it. A I‘iirlher sum of 02,1)00,000 h:is been advanced by (he United. Stales (o I(;ily. The total of the loans granted to Italy is £132,000,000.

An American soldier in Frauen, bringing in prisoners, recognised one of them as his brother who had leen impressed into 11 if German

Army. Fire has destroyed (he old Wesleyan ehapei ill Kempslone, Dorset, iieiieved to he the only place o| worship in the country with a thatched roe f.

The Briii.-li Covcrnmeid tins placed a £75,00!) order will: the American Chicle Company for (111,000,000 .-lick.-' of chewing gum for I he British Armv.

Owing to (he high price of eon!,. Kansas City, C.S.A., , people are using corn cobs for fuel, ami have .-.loved thousands of lons of (hem fur v,’inter use.

Owing (o the devastation of wide eieas hv drought am! wind, Canada will I his year raise ha rely 150,000,000 bushels of when! against 2-10,-000,000 iasl year. Oil several of the Derbyshire moorlands tlie peat resources are being developed, in view.of the drastic economy that will he necessary iii I lie use of coal.

The Shipping Board announces (hat Americans between 21 and 20, who (juaiil'y as ena! passer.-- or .(iremen on vessels, will not be called ai>on for military duly, A. reduction of over £20,000.000 was shown in (he total operating in - come of 122 of America's largest railroads during (he first live months of (iovennneni control.

There are nearly a million people in receipt wf the old-age pension in {■(rent .Britain, of whom only 22(i,000 are men. The cost is approximately 1.2 millions \eai.

As the first pnhliea'ion of the Kspionagc Law, (he Spanish Callin',h has decided to prohibit (lie publication of all news lehuive to Cue movement of merchant shins.

A prominent member of the I’ris.oners’ Belief Society in Xcw York favours pulling .100,000 non-pro-ductive convicts in American prisons (o work in mnnilion factories.

A “record" price was reached recently at Messrs Johnson, Dynnmd and (Son's auction rooms, Kingsway, London, when £3JUiS was paid tor a single-stone diamond ring. A considerable inllnx ot Mexican labour for use on farms in 1 be 3 ’ South-west has been approved by r’ivsident \\ i’son, who has waived certain provisions of the immigration laws.

At a trial of the I.WAY. conspirators in Gbicargo, one testified that he joined (be organisation because lie had been lined for breaking dishes while a waiter in a restaurant. W. A. Soukhondinolf. formerly a millionaire and the late Tsar’s Minister for Vi’ar. is now earning a living as a porter, at I’elrograd, while his wife sells programmes in a theatre.

At the Bau Francisco Customhouse, Government officials have been imining' a lottery, selling chances on Thrift Stamps, hut the Government suppresses guessing contests in newspapers.

A ship riveter from Seattle,

Washington, who had been earning more than £2O a week, with his wife spent a vacation in Xew York and hired a suite in one of the finest hotels.