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NEWS IN BRIEF.

A number of rats invaded the Friedrich' Welhelm Theatre, Berlin, causing commotion on the stage and among the audience. The curtain had to be rung down and the performance suspended. The British Empire contains roughly 10,000 islands. It is impossible to give the exact number, because statisticians might disagree as to what constitutes an island, and what a mere clump of rocks.

Salt is so cheap that it has never been worth while to get if from the sea; but recently in California its extraction from sea-water has been quite, successful, and large quantities are being manufactured.

An official report on -the earthquake in the Province of Ki,insu, China, last, December shows that 200,000 people were buried by falling hills. All houses within an aria of 75 square miles were destroyed. The California prune harvest was in full swing last month, and 200,000,000 lb. of fruit is collected annually. The prunes are not picked, but fall from the trees when ripe, and are gathered from the ground.

America is now the second mercantile power in the world. Her shipping has increased from 1,837,000 tons in 1914 to 12,314,000 tons in 1921. Britain’s figures were 18,877,000 tons in 1914, and 19,288,000 in 1921.

A message from Smyrna states that it is proposed that a statue to l\lr Lloyd George should be erected in the city, while Constantinople Greeks propose to draw up an address to the British Prime Minister.

An Bft. candle, weighing about 1,0001 b., which will, it is claimed, burn continuously for 13 years, is being made in New York as a memorial to Caruso from an orphan home to which lie contributed generously. It will be placed in a church in Naples. One of the quaintest innovations of the recent heat wave in London was the introduction of sunshades for dogs. These consisted of light crepe de chine protections suspended over Ihe animals’ necks by light wire strands. The “lucky” animals whose masters or mistresses bought the sunshades did not seem so pleased with them as perhaps the donors had hoped. What is said to be one of the largest submarine cables in the world has been laid on the bed of the Detroit River, between Detroit, U.S.A., and the town of Windsor, in Canada. It carries 408 pairs of wires, which will make it possible to conduct 600 simultaneous conversations between these two cities. The cable weighs 50,870 pounds, and is 3,000 feet long and over ten inches thick.

So beautiful is the “scenery” under the sea round the Island of Santa Catalina, California, that small steamers, with glass bottoms, are run to enable the passengers to study and enjoy the beauties of the deep. Part of the bottom of these boats is made of glass and railed off, having sitting accommodation all round. The water is wonderfully clear,' and the passengers see vast forests of seaweed in the ocean , beneath, with red and white fish * swimming about.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19211105.2.3

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2351, 5 November 1921, Page 1

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494

NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2351, 5 November 1921, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2351, 5 November 1921, Page 1

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