NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2323, 1 September 1921, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

There are 3,550,480 letters in the Bible.

The TowCr of London is again open to the public. The House of Commons noyv consists of 707 members.

Lyons’- catering shops, London, made a profit of £500,000 last year.

Bank clerks in Czccho-'Slavia to the number of 9,ooo'are on strike. To date, 1,228,882 silver . wut badges have been awarded in England.

The distance from the Land s End to John O’Groats is about 8391 miles.

More than 120 English railway locomotives have* been adapted to burn oil fuel.

More than £600,000 is invested in diamond* each year by residents of New York.

An old £1 brown stamp, unused, realised £l2O at a sale ofjiaro British stamps in London recently. Over 5,000 more shoe]) wore exported from Canada in January of this year than during the same month in 1920.

Permission to some municipal housing tenants to sublet is being refu*ed by Walthamstow London.

Tn 1920 ilie world'- production of oil wa* over 088,000.000 barrels, nearly a quarter a* much again a* in 1919.

The Tower Bridge, London, is to he re-painted at a cost of £19,808, and Blnekfriars Bridge at a cost of £lo.] 2-1.

Began in 1914. it is expected that repairs to Westminster Abbey roof will be completed by the end of next yea r. Tn Perthshire foxes arc being shot and trapped by gamekeeper* owing to the damage- they do to lamb* and game.

A man ha* just died in Berlin who wa* a member of the (lei'inaii Parliament for -14 years, ami never made a speech. New badges for skill at a mis, consisting of crowns or star* and crossed swords, have been approved hv the British Army Council.

* Jersey States have adopted e<>mpulsory military service, (‘very male inhabitant of the island between 10 and 35 being liable to service. Canada's birth-rate for 1929 was 27.47 per 11,999, a- against a death rate of 13.31. The marriage rare during the *ame period wa* 8.91 per 1,999.

A -nil of armour made by Jacob, the armourer of Henry Herbert, second Earl of Pembroke, was sold at Sotheby's, Condon, recently, lor £25,900.

It wa* staled at We*: Ham Police Court that 30,999 person* were receiving out-relief in the West Ham Union, at a co-t of over £9,000 a week.

Westminster Bridge, London, was opened mi May 2-ltli, 1862. The London County Council tramway n-r-ross the bridge was opened on December 13th, 1906.

Motor trucks in America last year hauled .1,200,099.999 ions of freight, or nearly half the amount carried by railways, which totalled 2,59 1.900,999 ton*.

A party from the Harvard Fniversily Glee Club, numbering 51, visited Paris recently to give a *cric- of concerts in France fur llie benelii oi a French charitv.

Plan* are proceeding for tln' erection of a huge wireless receiving atiou in Montreal under the owner--Lip and operation of the Marconi Wireless Company of Canada.

The Polish trade statistics for 1920 show exports oil 629,315 ion*

1 2.12,731 ton* to Germany), and imports 3,539,81.1 tons, including 2.908,610 (on* of coal from Upper Silesia.

The amount of the eapital held for the benefit of Greenwich Hospital for the year ended March, 1920. was f7,(i1!5,1127. The income was 12!)li,!)l>.l, and the expenditure 1!224,1i07.

"Feeing" markets in Northern Scotland have been marked bv a sharp downward tendency, agricultural workers of all grades accepting reductions up to CIO for the lm If-vewr.