NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2176, 14 September 1920, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

The present rateable value of the City of London is £5,880,111. An electric train passed through the St. Got ha rd Tunned for the 'first lime on .July Ist, Thirty years ago there were 230,000 Indians in the United States; now there are 307,000. The Director-General of Ronds announces I ha! 750,000 mol or vehicles are now running in Britain. A permanent aerial mail service in connection with the Chinese Post Office has been inaugurated. ■ the population of Vancouver is now 203,220, an increase of just under 30,000 within (lie last year. So numerous are the applieulious for admission to Lion College that it is virtually booked up until 102 S. The Nile has risen favourably this year, so that an additional 28,000 acres of'Egypt can be Used lo grow rice. Patents applied for in England last year numbered 32,053 —Hie highest number at least for the last ten year.-. !l i.- eslima led lhat Ihe iota! on; ■■ pul in Canada of condensed and evaporated milk in 1010 was nearly 1.10,000,00011). it is expected that new wireless stations on the Mount of Olives will he able to talk direct with London ami Paris. As compared with HE■!. the number of passengers carried on Belfast tramways in the last financial \ear inerea-ed by 33,000,000. The coroner for North-Ea.-I London, Dr. Wynn We-leol!, who has just resigned at llte age of 72, conducted over 28,000 impm-ls in 20 years. ,\t ati Fast End inquest the jury liv'd at “about 08” the age of a mat) given by his son as 03. the police at 78. and a doctor a- “ai least 70." Statistic- show ill,-it llm aj.e;'age daily food consumption by the adult man is 111 grams of protein, 12< grains of fat, and 433 gram- 01. earhohydrates. In connect ion with outbreak- of foot and month disease, 772 cattle, 5,205 -heep, 271 pig.- and two goals have been slaughtered during the lhire moltth- in Englaml. In the olden times, riiinoceroborns were employed for drinking cup- by royal personages, I lit 1 notion being that poison put into them would -bow it.-elf by bubbling. Although armlet and bracelet' air o(ten used with the same meaning, the former really denotes something worn on ihe upper arm, while a bracelet is worn on tlie wrist, A van containing 17,000 egg- wasiolen from a London street by a man, who was afterwards seen driving in a eerlain direct ion. The empty van wa- subsequently teeovered. Tim huge Atlantic liner, Aqiiliaaia. has been relilled ami converted into an oil-burning vessel, flic wort: ha- cost £400,00(1, ;iml employed at me 1 ime 3,000 men and women. An invitation has been extended io President B il.-on by a him cor poralion to slate the ease ,1 or 1 lie League of Nation- in the form of a .-cena rio to be produced a I lhe company's -iudios. Over 1,000 begrimed imner-s, in their working attire, attended the hmeral ol' a workman at ( wnlpavk, Rhondda, marching from'the pithead after having failed to obtain leave from the management. Thirty lons of black enrran!- intended for jam-makmg have b-aai destroyed, at Hull, owing to deterioration. said to have been caused by ihe unsuitability ed ves.-ef used, in their Iraii.-porl from Holland.