NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2444, 22 June 1922, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

Canadian chocolates are finding a ready market in the British Isles. A mosque has beeen opened in a private house in Southficlds, England.

As a result of an opium raid in Liverpool 12 Chinamen wert* arrested.

Motor cars worth £22,000,000 were stolen in the United States last year.

The roaring of a waterfall is caused by the bursting of millions of air bubbles.

The first Afghan Minister in Rome has presented his credentials to the King of Italy. Roubles, worth more than three shillings each before the war, are now worth 10,000 a penny. The estates of the Dukes of Wellington are still held by the offering to the King of a flag. The River Avon, England, has been re-stocked with 200,000 young fish, taken from various reservoirs. The Japanese propose to sbnd powerful tugs to British Columbia to tow log rafts across the Pacific. Although rich in Spain has comparatively no industries, and only 10,000 miles of railway.

Four countries have decided not to re-introduce summer time —Germany, Spain, Switzerland, and Portugal. -v For a man to laugh in Persia is considered effeminate. There are no restrictions of female merriment. The sootfall in London over, over an area of 117 square miles, was found, in 1911, to be 76,050 tons annually. _ Under the name of “Characterie,” Dr. Bright, a London physician, published a system of shorthand in 1588.

The war hut at Victoria Station, in London, has been closed after sheltering a million soldiers and sailors.

A film over a mile long has been prepared by German scientists illustrating Einstein’s theory of Relativity. The blue colouring of the sky is caused by the scattering of beams of white light- on myriads of particles of dust.

Oil has been discovered in the Many Island Lake district, some 25 miles north-east of Medicine Hat in Alberta.

In March, 22,581 tons of fish reached Billingsgate, London, for sale, an increase of 2940 tons over February,?