NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2601, 3 July 1923, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A golden eagle has been timed, and has been found to fly at the rate of more than a mile a. minute. Victoria, British Columbia, was a mining camp sixty-seven years ago. To-day it is a beautiful city.

Potatoes have been fetching so low a price in Lancashire recently that growers have been giving them away.

Child wives in Calcutta are estimated at 18;256. Of these 14,000 were between ten and fifteen years of age. A burning cigarette-end dropped on a celluloid gramophone record recently caused a fire in an Acton house.

Flower borders round the graves in British military cemeteries in France and Belgium measure 238 miles in all. At a marriage ceremony in India the bride stands oil a large plate filled with milk and rose coloured sweetmeats. On - the paper money issued by Loebejun, a small town in Saxony, appears the drawing of a man displaying his empty pockets. The number of registered unemployed in Great Britain on March 5 was 1,319,000, a decrease, of 9054 compared'with the preceding week. The fastest flowing river in the v/orld is the Sutlej, in India, which rises 15,200 feet above sea level and falls 12,000 feet in 180 miles. Education in Scotland costs three times as much as before the war; in Laemingtpn, -Lanarkshire, the cost per child reaches £SO a yeai . : The latest type of American expassenger locomotive, \\ ith a train behind it for ballast, can run on a straight track at 112 miles an h °Miss Cavell, retiring after being for 38 years headmistress of Ripple School, Deal, lias in that time travelled 58,520 miles to and from school. „ Four mice gof into a transforms at Lincoln (England) electricity works, caused a short circuit and threw the town in darkness for ha an hour. . .. A theatre has been installed aboard a French liner, and performances will take place each evening during the voyages unless prevented by the weather. Cancer is most fatal m the case of brewery workers, messengers, and porters, and least virulent among lithographers and tallow and soap manufacturers. _ Several of the American States owe Great Britain sums of money amounting to £1.2,000,000 m all; these debts were contracted from 40 to 70 years ago.