NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2206, 23 November 1920, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

The number of persons killed in (lie streets of London last year was 088. In addition, 19,027 persons were injured. It is thought that 200,000 aeres of cotton can be cultivated in Mesopotamia, producing up to 20,000,000 1!). of cotton every year. The mouth of the Kiver Elbe has been blocked up by a gigantic Swedish raft of 140,000 tree trunks, which was on its way to Amsterdam. Worms are sensitive to light, though they have no eyes. They do not hear as we hear, but they feel vibrations and so are warned of danger. The cinema industry is one of the largest in the United Slates, and each year.4,ooo miles of lihns are exported, 1,500 miles going to England. It has been reckoned that on the various electric systems of London, controlled by 30 companies, there are altogether about 800.000 circuit connections. Mr “Billy" Sunday, the wellknown evangelist, who was at one time a noted baseball player, recently declined ah offer of £200,000 to act for the dims. The privilege of free rides on tramears enjoyed at Hull by blind people and by men who lost a leg in the war is to be extended to old age pensioners. Captain George Bowyer, a British a M,P,j states that he has answered

f> * every letter and postcard lie has reeeived since he. hits been in Parliament to the number of nearly 9,000, Under the English law, if a window has received light free from obstruction for 20 years, it becomes an ‘‘ancient light,” and no building may bo erected which will obscure it.