NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2531, 18 January 1923, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Candidates for admission to the Army colleges at Woolwich and Sandhurst, have sunk from 890 in 1921 to 500 last year.

The jury acting in a law ease which lasted three months had to answer 42000 questions and consult 73800 documents.

Postmark advertisements of the British Empire Exhibition will appear on 500,000,000 letters during I lie next twelve months.

An inter-University athletic contest in America drew crowds of 80,000 to 100,000 people. Some of them travelled thousands of miles. Silkworms were first reared by a Chinese Empress 4,500 years ago, according to an old Chinese book, entitled ‘‘The Silkworm Classic.” If men were to adopt a lower form of neckwear, open at the throat, many doctors believe that the national health would be greatly improved. While out hunting Major W. P. Standish, ex-master of foxhounds (Ilambledon), of: Marvel! Flail, Oswest rv, fell from his horse and died later.' There are now 15 Republics in Europe, occupying two-thirds of the territory of the Continent and having a population of nearly 284,000,000. A smokeroom planned on the limes of a comfortable old English inn, with an oak ingle-nook, is a novel feature in a recently-launched liner. Varieties of beer to the number of 349 were recently lasted and tested by experts in London; some brews only containing two per cent alcohol. Frederick Bullock, a former captain of Huddersfield football team, and an intermltional full back, died at Huddersfield Infirmary from ammonia poisoning. A eoa 1-heaver’s widow obtained judgment for £3,450 at Glamorgan Assizes against a Japanese company for her husband’s accidental death aboard ship. Carnations only (lowered in July fifteen years ago, now there is a variety which will stand outdoor life all the year round, blooming for eight months in succession. Two churches, one in Edinburgh and the other in Southport, are now fitted with a special appliance which enables deaf worshippers to listen to the service. The London County Council spend annually £25,000,000 of the ratepayers’ money, and control the welfare, health and amusement of more than 4,000,000 people. The quantities of herrings of British taking landed in the United Kingdom during October totalled 60,429 metric tons, compared with 55,588 metric tons in'Oetober, 1921. For the first ten months in the previous year, the weight was 206,7-15 metric tons.