NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2719, 10 April 1924, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

A 51b. trout caught by a Liver pool angler in Loch Askaig, Inver noss-shire, was found to have swnl lowed a while-handled table knife.

Three villages of Sussex have populations of 2d or under: these are North Marden, population 12: Southover Without. 19; and Lullington, 20.

Commander ('land Lapsley. general superintendent of the White Star line's Mediterranean New York service. Inis crossed the Atlantic nearly 700 times.

A record price for cotton seeds jyns paid recently when an American planter sold ten seeds lor £22. They came from a stalk on which 530 bolls had grown. “Anyone who smokes 20 cigarettes a day puts 5 per cent;, of his blood out of play,” said Dr. W. E. Dixon, lecturing recently at the Royal Institute in London. Owing to the heavy costs, and the fact that many housewives have restarted the family wash-day, laundries are said to he having a hard time generally in England. New books published in England last year numbered nearly 7000; of these, 1229 were novels, 5P5 dealt with religion and theology, and 17 were works of'humour.

A case has just been before the English Courts based on the Distress for Kent Act passed in 1737. The magistrates were greatly surprised to find the old Act still in force.

The tirst Indian woman barrister, Miss Mithan Tata, was admitted as an advocate at the Bombay High Court recently. Miss Tata is a member of a famous Parsee family-

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the -discovery of radium has just been celebrated. It is probably the greatest scientific discovery of our time that has come out of Poland. At a recent sale in the Western States of America a horse ranch was sold at a price that allowed a value of only 7d each on 4000 horses. They were of all ages and ail uubroken.

Germany kept up her. supply of high explosives owing to the discovery that the gases nitrogen and hydrogen, obtained respectively from air and from water, will yield ammonia, through the combined action of pressure and iron.