NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2340, 11 October 1921, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

The population of Malta is now 24,(180.

Women farmers in the United States number over 2(10,000. Guernsey has enjoyed Home Rule for several hundred years.

Three-wheeled taxi-cabs arc now running in (lie Paris streets.

.July was the driest; month London has known for eighty years. Twenty thousand umbrellas were left in the Paris “lube" last yea r.

Cases of sleeping sickness do the number of 1475 were reported in Sweden in 1921.

A stud hook for Canadian pedigree silver foxes lias been started in Ontario.

Rubber estates in Ceylon, finding no market for rubber, are planting castor-oil plants. Friendly societies and trade unions registered in England and Wales number 31,729. The total of emigrants from Switzerland during the first half of 192.1 amounts to 4,251 persons. Danish statistics show that 80oz. of tobacco per head were consumed by the population in 1920. Pensions are being paid (o 3,500,000 men, women, and children, by the British Ministry of Pensions.

Crisp white rolls are again' being served in German restaurants for the first time since the end of 1914. American milliners are arranging to change the styles of hats every month instead of twice a year.

British war stores sold abroad realised £49,700,200 from France and Belgium* and £3,250,000 from Germany.

Ten persons went out of their minds in Milan owing to a recent heat wave, while one death from sunstroke is reported. The great German wireless station at Nauen claims to have sent wireless telephone messages over distances of 2,700 miles. Eighty young snakes, from 3in. to Tin. in length, were disturbed during removal of a manure heap at Kingsteignton, Devon. After the lapse of nearly four centuries, .the Angelus Bell is now rung three times daily at St. Magnus the Martyr, London Bridge. In order to protect the travelling public in France against bandits, it is proposed to form a special corps of armed railway guards. Owing to the sale of valuable oil lands in Oklahoma, U.S.A., 2,000 Osago Indians will now receive an income of £2,000 a year each. Every town, seen from the air, has a distinctive colour. London is a dirty blue, Birmingham sepia, and Cheltenham a drab-white.