NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2301, 12 July 1921, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

There are now over 200,000 lepers in India.

Out of at total of eighteen South Pole expeditions, nine have been British.

A Chinese play GOO years old was recently performed in English in London.

There are more than 50 newspapers in New York City, printed in 14 languages. The cost of making a Bank of England five-pound note is estimated at one half-penny. The workhouse schools of St. Pancras, London, are practically full of abandoned children.

Abolition of capital punishment has been voted by both Houses of the Swedish Riksdag. The United States of America leads the world in commerce, but ranks ninth in education.

The total population of British India and the native states is slightly over 319,000,000 A feature of Japanese weddings is the building of a bonfire made of the toys of the bride. • Over 26,000,000 yards of carpets are produced in the United Kingdom in the course of a year.

An official return states that every University institution .in Britain is overflowing with students. A return issued recently states that during the war 300 British nurses died while on service with the forces.

Professor Goddard’s attempt to fire a rocket to the moon has had to be postponed owing to lack of funds.

France proposes to moor balloons at the height of about a mile between London and Paris, to mark the air route.

A cigarette factory, which has recently been opened in Sofit, Belgium, is expected to turn out 750,000 cigarettes a day.

“Milk” manufactured from chopped oats, ground peanuts, and a little water, is said to resemble the creamiest product of the cow.

Since August, 1914, £18,805,177 has been awarded in the British Admiralty Prize Court, of which amount half has been paid out. The first trip on the new Paris to Warsaw air service took ten hours, as compared with sixty hours for the journey by A train. English currency has been adopted in the Islands of Guernsey, Sark, Herm, and Jethou, in place of the old Guernsey currency. A total of 18,000 bedrooms in hotels has been provided with Bibles by the Commercial Travellers’ Christian Association.

Tanning materials arc being produced in large quantities in the Congo Siale, where a fully-equipped laboratory has been established. The Peruvian Government has prohibited the hunting of the Chincilia, a much-sought-after fumanimal, for a period of ten years. The various types of. aeroplanes down during the war are included in the design of a memorial erected in St. Mary's Church, England.