NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2725, 26 April 1924, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

Australia- is twenty-five times ns large a.s the United Kingdom. A New York bank lias established a branch on the great, liner Leviathan. Ten millions of people go to the cinema every week in the United States. Dyed furs are said to retain (heir colouring longer than those of natural line. A ewe in North Wales has given birth to four lambs. Four at a birth is very rare. Ten pounds of good hay will keep a horse alive as long as 501 b of green clover. Canada can boast the largest consecutive wheat area, measuring at least fIOO by 300 miles. The Plymouth Guardians have reduced the poor rate for the ensuing year by Bd—a record decrease. The first smoking carriage was introduced on the Eastern Counties Railway, England, in September, 184(1. Ice takes four and a half years to travel from the Arctic Ocean north nf Siberia to the East Greenland current, where it begins to afleet the weather in England. It is said that in proportion to its population Switzerland spends more on poor relief than does any other erthntry. rt is proposed to place in Gluey Parish Church. Northampton, a, memorial to Cowper, the poet, and his friend. Newton.

To improve the acoustics of the hoard room, the London Metropolitan Water Board has bought a earpel at a cost of £142. The guns aboard the United States battleship Colorado, which is electrically driven, can fire a oneton shell nineteen miles. Charged at Grimshv with theft, a youth said he stole to raise money for a fine lie already owed the court.. He was fined again, According to careful estimates, three hours of close study wear out the body more than ten hours of hard physical exertion. The Victoria Falls, in Africa, are the finest in the world; they are 420 feet high, more than twice the 1 1 r ight of Niagara Falls. An investigation as to what colours attract, disease-carrying insects revealed the fact that darkblue attracts more than any other colour.