NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2375, 5 January 1922, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Dover Patrol Memorial on the Dover cliffs, is an obelisk 84 feet high, tapering from a base 2.1 feet square, and built of 700 tons of Norwegian granite. It has a duplicate across the Channel, near Calais.

Retail clothiers and woolgroAvers in the United States are backing the French-Capper Bill, providing for the marking of wool-content on goods. The unrestricted use of shoddy is materially affecting the sheep-growing industry. Cornelius Sullivan, 34 years in the United States Navy, never Avent to sea. His duties as chief Avater tender kept him at a navy yard throughout his service, which terminated Avith his retirement recently at the age of 79 years. The manager of the Morinaga Confectionery Company, Tokio, brands as ridiculous the report that the American candy market is to be flooded by Japan. He says that sugar costs them about 3d a pound, and that the ocean freight rates make export to America impossible. Because of the general shortage of feedstuffs, and the prevailing loav prices for cattle, the Canadian Government has assured stock raisers that they Avill be.granted exceptional financial assistance from the banks with Government approval. With a vieAV to the prevention of the spread of gastro-intestinal diseases, the Government of Malta has prohibited until further notice the importation and sale of Avheat flour containing less than 35 per cent, by weight of wet gluten, or more than 5 per cent, by Aveight of substances soluble in cold water.

English people have swelled heads, according to John M. Severn, a Brighton phrenologist, but lie says it is because their brains arc expanding. He says that he has examined over 200,000 heads in the last forty years, and he feels sure that the people are more intelligent now than they were before the war.