NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2039, 9 October 1919, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The first steamship to cross the' Atlantic was flic Sirius.

Popper cust £ls an ounce in England in Henry Vl.’s reign. A ton of average coal will provide 8,000 ft. of purified gas. One pound of phosphorus will supply heads to 1,000,001) matches. Over 8,000. British soldiers have been pensioned off as totally deaf. Shark oil is used for lighting purposed in many parts of the West Indies.

There are 900 lighthouses and lightships round the-coasts of:' Great, Britain. , * A “bald-headed men’s c*lub ,, - has just met in England—the first time since 1010.

Army horses and mules sold in all theatres of war have so far realised over £.13,400,000, The oldest, known document bn paper is, a deed of King Boger of Sicily, bearing the date 1102.

Live lobsters were the first nidrchandise carried by the new air service between Paris and Brussels.

Diamonds worth £20,000 have been obtained in two months on a farm in the Orange Free State. Surveys in Scotland have shown that 72,000 acres of timber felled weighing 300 tons, has recently been quarried at Wirksworth, Derby-: shire.

Three hundred and sixty-four motor cars' were recently stolen in Greater London in the same number of davs.