NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2243, 24 February 1921, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Europe has 14 reigning sovereigns, British income tax in 1875 was 2d in the £. Reindeer are more numerous than horses in Norway. Wireless telegraphy was predicted as long ago as 184(5. There are .650,500 taxable motor vehicles in Great Britain. The Japanese Navy, m strength, comes third among the Powers. More than 200 films were produced in Great Britain during 1920. Ministers of the Society of Friends in Great Britain number 254. In 1702 there were 20 evening papers in London. Now there are six. During the whole course of the war 87!) Victoria Crosses were awa rdod. Submarines are forbidden to Germany by the terms of the Peace Turn iy. About one-half of all the diamonds in the world are owned by Americans. Since December, 1916, 77 peerages have been created under Mr Lloyd George, It is officially stated that naval prize-money is not assessable to income-tax. There are 20,000 more millionaires in the United States than before the war. Seventy-three Irish -M's.P. have

sworn allegiance to the Irish Republican Government.

The first case in whch women jurors served was tried in Bristol on July 28th, 1920.

" The film rights of one of the bestknown Ainerican novels have boon sold for £40,000. Poland, the recreated State, consists of 120,000 square miles, with a population of 21,000,000. The Ministry of Pensions employs one-fifth of the total number of medical men in Great Britain. There arc 718 members of the House of Lords, including 16 Scottish and 28 Irish representative peers.

About 2,500 German combatants and civilians were buried in the United Kingdom during the war. Two funerals were held in one day recently at Westminster Abbey, for the first time, it is said, in history.

Of the deaths registered in 192(1 in Britain, just over 10 per cent, were of infants under one year of nge. _ Road accidents in the United Kingdom increased from 37,925 in 1918 to 51,526 An 1919; of the latter, 2,628 were fatal.

Nearly 18,000 school children receive free meals from the London School Council, at a cost of about £1,500 a week. The cost of keeping a convict for a year in an English prison has gone up since .1913 from just under £2B to over £95,

“Hustling” on the London Underground Railway is said to have made a daily saving of 30 minute. 1 ? during the rush hours. Germany had at the close of the war 200 film-producing companies, turning out spectacular dramas as good as any American pictures. A year ago the State of Ohioi voted against Prohibition by 80,000, Now it lias voted in favour of enforcing it by a majority of 100,000.

Prosecutions for profiteering to the number of 84,000 were initiated by the Food Ministry, between the beginning of 1918 and the end cl August, 1920. •-