NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2732, 13 May 1924, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Among’ 1 lie terrors of; flit* sea is the whip-ray;tliis fish is armed with an ivory dagger, ahoul ten indies long its tail. When attached, the fish lashes its tail around, inflicting deadly wounds with its dagger. “Famiy villages are to he established in Canada, each community being limited to twentv families, who will receive 100 ' acres each, thus overcoming the disadvantage of social isolation. The total weight of fish landed in (freal Britain Inst year was 16.931,540 hundredweights, valued at £17,280,171. as against 17.740.786 hundredweights in 1922. valued at £17,784,041. Two thousand tons of pin> were manufactured in the United Stafelasf year. There were 10,000 million ordinary pins, three and a-lialf million hairpins, and over 1200 millam safety pins. Firemen in London will have to In* at least sfl 7in. if the suggestion of (lie L.C.C. Fire Brigade Committee is adopted. Applications arc so numerous that tliev wish to. raise the physical standard. A trawler from Xewlyn, Cornwall < lie night recently netted a vast haul of mackerel estimated at 20ft. 000. and the weight fore away the nets and gear worth £5(10. which were lost together with the fish. The Lewis machine-gun, famous during the war, is being eclipsed b\ the Browning, which weighs less than lolb., can lie tired from tin* .shoulder or the hip. mid fires 20 cartridges in less than 21 seconds. The greatest known depth of the sea is said to lie 32.(188ft., about 4ft miles north of one of the Philippine Islands, At this point the ocean bottom would he about 111 miles lower than the top of Mount Everest. Then* are still some honest people in the world. Recently a Core firm sold a considerable quantity of goods and charged them up flu* usual course of events, stales the “Matnura Ensign.’’ The bill was sent out, hut was returned “address unknown" from two or

three localities by the Post Office officials. Later tfie purchaser of the goods called in, and stated that as he had no bill and the money for his order had been owing for for a good many months he would settle up. It was then discovered that a mistake had been made in the* name, and the goods had been charged to a person who did not exist. The manager was exceedingly pleased to find that honesty does occasionally assert itself.