NEWS IN BRIEF.
There were 12,000 deaths from the influenza epidemic in Brazil, of which over 60 occurred in a United States cruiser. About 60 per cent, of the population of Rio de Janeiro were attacked. A monument to the memory of Nurse Caveil was erected in Brussels within thirteen days of the Germans leaving the city. The base of it, indeed, was laid the day al lor they went.
Women supporters of Miss E. Phipps, the Independent candidate at Chelsea, Wales, toured the constituency with posters bearing tlie words; “Well mind the baby while you vote."
In the original copy of the coming peace treaty it will be signed in the alphabetical order of the various countries’ names, but the copy for each country will contain the name of that country first.
One thousand eight hundred pounds in bills, stolen from the Canadian Express Company in a daylight robbery between Toronto and Hamilton, has been discovered in a Toronto backyard. Since the outbreak of war the Red Cross and the Order of St. John have supplied 2,177 motor ambulances and 064 oilier types of motor vehicles, such as stores lorries, repair waggons, and soup kitchens.
The formation of a national highway from Halifax to Vancouver, to obviate the necessity of crossing (ho United States border in journeys from Ottawa to Winnipeg, or Quebec to New Brunswick, is being considered in Canada.
The British Isles imported in 1016 0.1,729,7921 b. of castor oil beans, valued at £713,557, and 5,701 tons of castor oil, valued at £242,493. Seventy-five per cent, of all this oil was used for lubricating the engines of aeroplanes.
A candidate at the recent British elections was given permission for In’s agent to affix a special seal to each of the ballot-boxes at the close of the poll. The reason for this was a complaint that the boxes might lie tampered with. To Strasburg belongs the doubtful honour of having scored the world's high-price record for food during the war. In Strashnrg market recently a large goose was sold
for 297 marks (nearly £ls), that is, about the pre-war price of a fat ox. Though estimates of deaths over the whole world from any single epidemic arc very difficult to form, .there seem to he reasonable grounds for believing that some (i,000,000 persons perished of iulluenzu and pneumonia during the last throe months of HUS.
The king of toys at I lie Christmas season at Home was a wonderful British-made model tank. It is lilted with caterpillar tractors, which revolve when the tank is pulled aJojig, enabling it to surmount any obstacle. Tins toy, which is being bought up as fast as it can be made, costs Hose on £2.
The oldest Jiving woman in the world, so far as is known, lives in Posen. She is 134 years of age, and her birth is substantiated by records. She was a young woman when Napoleon swept over Europe. At the lime of her birth Frederick the Croat was still alive and (he (.’idled States had been born about eight years. 200,000,000 herrings were caught in the Yarmouth herring fishery season. The record catch of one boat realised between £O,OOO and £IO,OOO.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1948, 6 March 1919, Page 4
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533NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1948, 6 March 1919, Page 4
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