NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2382, 21 January 1922, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The trade of Swansea Port for September totalled 432,383 tons, compared with 708,234 tons for September last year.

The Belgian Colonial League is arranging lectures all over the co-untry-with the object of encouraging emigration to the Congo. An additional 224,818 acres are under crop in South Australia this season, as compared with last year. When out cub-hunting, 25 of the Pifeshire foxhounds developed mysterious symptoms, and 11 died. Fishing in a stream in Thanet, a fisherman caught a pike inside which was found a sparrow intact. Income tax payments throughout Canada for the fiscal year 192021 amounted to about £11,000,000.

A “record” catch of about 30 whales is reported from Durban. The largest catch reported hitheilo was 27. This year’s wheat crop in Sweden is estimated at 300,000 tons, an increase of 50 per cent, over the normal. By a lire which broke out in Uhent Harbour among 800 bales of cotton, damage estimated at £30,000 was caused. During the six weeks ended September 13tli, 049 immigrants entered Palestine through the ports, and 44 overland. Negotiations are reported to be in progress for the establishment of a direct steamship service between Finland and Japan. '*" Two hundred canaries were shipped to New York a few weeks ago, marking a renewal of such exports for the American Christmas trade. More than 1,800 returned soldiers have been placed on 420,000 acres of land in the Regina area, Saskatchewan, by the Soldiers’ Settlement Board. English scientists have found that glass can be permanently tinted byimmersion in the hot mineral waters of Bath, long famous as a health resort.