NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2499, 28 October 1922, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

English fanner- are asking for a Government subsidy of .CIO,Olio,(Mb) instead of the present C 1.300.000 awarded under the Agricultural Rale- Act. Pekingese dogs owe their popularity largely to the fact that, a!-" though lively, they are not quam •!- some or noi-y, and are affectionate and faithful. The boy- ,d' a 1 Icrl l'ord~!iim i mop of -com- have lilted out i licir canoe with a wireless npparatiiIha I enable- them to li-len in as I lie.v paddle a long the river. In TOT hours, between dawn and iln-k, n'l ISrookOind-, Surrey, a motor ear driven in turn by three drivers, covered 1,275 miles, an average of 7(') mile- an hour. As a result of cheaper postage in Britain one firm has ordered a mil lion-hilll'-penny -lamps for the de--pateh of circulars as soon as the new rales come nfo force. Cigar- of the best quality arc made entirely by hand, the tediouwork of rolling ihom being relieved by an entertainer, who reads aloud lo the workers. Among ilie peasantry of Spani-h Galicia tlie women work hard all iLoir lives and are usually much stronger than and holier developed than their husband'-, over -whom they rale. Allotments, covering 35 acres, ex-i-l in ibe Wash, England, for the cultivation of mussels, the “seed-" being obtained from deep water and transplanted to grow and fallen. Able to give details of the weather prevailing in Berlin since ISHS, a period of 14,000 days, a German Government official was recently examined by the Berlin Meteorological Society, who were unable to trap hi in.