NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2402, 9 March 1922, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

The first steamship crossed the Atlantic in 1833. ' ; Gibraltar is less than two squaje miles in area. Liege is the chief cattle^ market of Belgium. England’s high roads cost £BOO a mile to construct.' j The territory of seven nations joins that of the German Empire. Twenty-five nationalities * are represented at Oxford University. There are ‘about 45,000 different kinds of postage stamps now known. Groats, or fourpenny pieces, were (last coined in Great Britain in 1856. According to the recent census, Poland has 28,t140,000 civilian inhabitants. Foreign-born people in the United States number 13,920,692. Of these, 6,493,088 are ’naturalised. There are eight orders of knighthood in the British Empire, of which the highest is the Order of the Garter. ' . Type metal consists of 6j parts lead, 25 parts®antimony, and 10 parts tin.

No city produces newspapers in so many different languages as New York.

The area planted in rice in India is expected to be about 81,000,000 aerfes this year.

Since the reign of George 11. no abbreviations have been allowed in legal documents.

A train of goods cars over a mile long was recently hauled by one locomotive in Western Canada. ,

At Framfield, Sussex, a cow is allowing four small pigs to treat her as mother and take her milk.

A total of 48,142,000 bushels of wheat were produced in the province of Manitoba during the past year, with an average yield of 13.75 an acre. Other productions were: — Oats, 60,112,000, acreage yield, 27 bushels; barley, 22,688,000, average 21.75.

In the second quarter of 1919, the meat of 3642 dogs was passed upon by nspectors of the German Imperial slaughter houses; horse meat also was in great demand, and the number of horses slaughtered for food was double that in peace times.

British competition in Bolivia is placing American goods at a great disadvantage. A British company is missionising the country in favour of English-made goods, and is forcing customers to buy any American goods through Liverpool, thus doubling the freight.