NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1947, 4 March 1919, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

There are 10,000 food officials in Petrograd. The biggest bomb Britain made weighed 3,300 pounds.

One coffee tree yields about a pound of beans each season. A letter written by Luther in 1545 has been sold for £2lO. Influenza iu South Africa cost insurance companies £1,500,000. There are £210,000,000 worth of £1 and 10s notes in circulation. The Germans introduced poison gas on April 22nd, 1915, at Ypres.

Six Y.C.’s have been conferred upon Jews since (he beginning of the war.

It is said that 73.000 Danes fought in the allied armies against the Germans.

A leakage of mustard gas from a factory caused three deaths in an English town. £12,000,000 is necessary to cover the expenses of the Finnish War of Independence.

Rochester Cathedral now has a woman bellringer, a woman organist, and a woman verger, A farm for the training of women in agriculture has recently been started in Essex, England. Empty shell eases were used at Nottingham for ballot boxes during the recent British elections. Boys of 15 engaged in acetylenewelding operations in England earned £5 a week during the war.

A letter has been delivered at

Wilmslow, England, which was posted iu Ireland on August 15th, 1912.

New magistrates for a town m England-include the head porter at the station and a postman now in the army.

It is reported in Germany that Kmpp’s munition factories at Essen will be utilised for the textile industry.

Lip-reading classes for disabled (deaf) sailors and soldiers are to be continued by the London County Council,

The King sent If ewt. of eoal each as a Christmas gift to several hundred poor people, aged 00 and upwards, at Windsor. Alfred Redsuli, who was a member of the crew which manned the first lifeboat placed at Deal over 50 years ago, has died, aged 70. It is costing ‘Westminster City Council £OOO to dismantle air-raid shelters and remove direction tablets and illuminated box-signs. No fewer than 3,7.15 pearls were recently received in London from the women of the Empire for sale in aid of the Red Cross.