NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2236, 8 February 1921, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Coloured cigarettes—rose, blue, green, orange—arc the latest craze of Parisian women, who often try to match their frocks with them.

It is estimated that an anmi:J production of 2,500 tons of asbestos can l>c obtained in North China after production is stimulated by fail prices.

Radium gives off many million times (he beat that could lie obtained from the same weigh! of coal, oil, gas, or any other combustible used ;is a power agent. “1 think one woman should have been included in the delegation of each nation lo the Assembly of the League of Nations,” said Lord Robert Cecil at Geneva. Some Very ancient books are to be found in the s:\cred relics of Ceylon. They are formed of palm leaves, written upon with a metal pen, and arc bound merely by a silken string.

Tiic annual report i>f the t inted Slates Secretary of War. Mr Baker, puls the total cost of the war to the United States at .13,730,395,57(i dollars, or £2,740,079,115 at the normal rate of: exchange.

A prominent brewery firm at Si. Louis, U.S.A., offered its assembly hall to the Women’s National Christian Temperance Union, for a meeting to celebrate the achievement of constitutional prohibition. Holland is undergoing an electrical awakening and a project to spend £BO,OOO oil electrical development lias received official approval. 'flic construction of a big power plant and transmission lines will begin at once.

Aeroplanes flying from abroad into any part of (he United Stales are now subject to the same quarantine regulations as apply to shipping. The first aeroplane health inspector has been appointed for Key Most, Florida, to which point many aeroplanes fly from Cuba.