NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2431, 20 May 1922, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Some stars are so remote tliatA it takes 40,000 years for their light to reach the earth.

Two London workhouses, both superfluous to their proper use, are to be offered for sale. Shields have been issued to the Egyptian police • to protect them from missiles thrown by rioters.

Many English country houses of quite respectable size have no proper system of drainage. The senior lady of the Queen’s Household, the Mistress of the Robes, is invaribly a duchess. London busses and underground railways carried nearly 72,000,000 fewer passengers - in 1921 than in 1920. Bees have been trained to start and stop work at the sound of a gong by a breeder of Fleea, Hants, gong by a breeder of Fleet, Hants. During February 586 emigrants left Antwerp for America. Of these 43 were Belgians, 269 Poles, and 167! Russians.

Pourparles, .it is stated, will shortly be initiated between France and Bulgaria for the conclusion of a Commercial'Treaty. Every man or woman who is thirty years _of age, and still/unmarried, is to be fined £l-<ss yearly, in Georgia, U.S.A. {

Launched.in 1906, at the cost of £1,813,100, H.M.S. Dreadnought was recently “scrapped” and sold for £40,000. By 41 votes to 36 the Dutch Second Chamber has passed a Bill enabling women to become Judges in the Dutch Court.

The first- red rose to be grown in England was planted in the gardens of the Manor of Savoy, London, in the thirteenth century. Dogs were last driven in harness in England sixty years ago. Lead pencils have not changed in design forsa:-hundred years.

Last year chewing-gum to the value of £200,000 was sold in England. There are three places in the world where green snow is found. A master mariner, who was remanded at Stratford Police Court, England, on a charge of: obtaining £5 liy false pretenses, was stated to have told the police that he was on the point of starving. There were hundreds of eapfains working as deck hands, he added, and he could not-get work.

Mr Hoover, the United Slates Secretary of Commerce, is reported to have stated that-nearly 2,000,000 mien and women who would otherwise have been; without work are employed to-day in the United States owing to proposals.made by the recent conference on unemployment summoned by President Harding. The Leipzig Museum of Books and Manuscripts finding itself in financial difficulties, proposes, with the permission of. the Government ' of Saxony, to sell the famous Gutenberg Bible in order to raise money for"carrving on the museum. The' Rijks museum of Amsterdam has offered to buy it for 10,000,000 marks (about £IO,OOO at the present- rate of exchange.)