NEWS IN BRIEF.
Only threes peeies of reptile exist in Ireland.
One per cent, of eases of amputation are fatal.
London is better off for trees than any other European city.
One woman in every .six in England earns her own living. In Great. Britain the women exceed the men by nearly 2,000,000.
The Cliine.se have twice sacked Moscow, once in 1237 and again in 1203.
A child snll'ering from diphtheria in Surrey caught the disease from a cat.
The end of colonisation, it is estimated, will he reached in about t wo hundred years’ time.
Health lectures are now being given in London prisons Ivy wellknown doctors.
During August London entertained a record number of visitors hpr that month.
The average daily number of London police off duty through sickness is about 700.
A message passes from one end ~f the Atlantic cable to the other in about three seconds.
Grapes are squeezed six times in making champagne, yielding wine of different qualities.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2678, 3 January 1924, Page 1
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164NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2678, 3 January 1924, Page 1
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