NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2569, 19 April 1923, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Shingling church spires is an almost extinct industry, although a few old churches still have their spires covered in this way.

There are now half a million Girl Guides in the world. Farm land was sold at Wilmslow, Cheshire, recently, for £l4O per acre.

There are 400,000 fewer people unemployed in Great Britain than at this time last year. A bottle-nosed whale lias been eapturd in the Firth of Forth )>v a rowing boat party. A toy balloon released at a Thames Ditton bazaar was picked up at Crueuse 150 miles south of Paris.

The übiquitous sparrow is working its way around the world. It invaded Alaska during the last spring. January of this year was a much healthier month in London than the January of 1922, according to statistics.

Fifty-one degrees of frost have 'icon registered in Ontario, where hitberton 40 degrees lias only once been recorded.

Motor cars, horse races, and (lie cinema are among the amusements available at the leper colony at Molokai, Hawaiian Islands. The fastest flowing river in the world is the Sutlej, in India, which rises 15,000 feet above the sea, and falls 12,000 feet in .180 mites.