NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2756, 10 July 1924, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

More than eighteen and a-half million people in Britain live in our large- towns of more than 50.000 inliabitants.

The elephant beeile, the largest known insect, is to be found in Venezuela. An average specimen weighs seven ounces.

One of the large hotels in Berlin is lifting nit I all it.- rooms to the number of some hundreds. with wireless receiving sets.

A matt was rescued by a search parly near San Antonio, Texas, after being imprisoned for ten days in the hollow of a giant oak tree.

Thu American Museum of Natural History hopes to gel £.10,000 for one of ils 25 dinosaur eggs, estimated. to be 11.000,000 years old.

Britain’s smallest borough is one called Montgomery, with 95] inhabitants. Tl lias a council consisting of a mayor, two aldermen and live councillors.

Every morning 300,000 people ride to the City of London front a live mile radius, 500,000 from a ten mile radius and another 50,000 from bevond.

Of all the earthquakes on record, the most disastrous occurred in-1550, in China, when 830,000 people were killed. One of the worst recent disasters was in Messina, iu 1908, whitdi had 72,283 victims.

A 21-month-old child, Henry Kcttlewcll, of Holme Black, Preston swallowed several pens, which were being soaked in a jug. The child died before a pen which lodged in the windpipe could be removed.

King's College Hospital, London, spent 10 per eenl. of its outgoings on beer, wine and spirits about the middle>of the lasi century; while a little earlier St. Thomas’ Hospital was still brewing ils own ale.

British Mayors receive payment al varying rates. Brent Torringlon presents it- chief magistrate with £5, while Eye, Marlborough, Lyme, Regais, Bewdley, Penryn, and Liskeard pay their mayors £lO each.

‘•Wjluit does it matter whirl hours vou work ! What does it matter what pay you get ! it all turns upon production. In this country you have progressed along the ltolshe\ik lines. and cannot turn baek. Cannot a man work as slow and slower in 48 hours us you ciiu in 44? You ha\e four hours more to do it in. Hon. W. Earnshaw in the Legislative Council on Thursday.