NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2775, 23 August 1924, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Kenya loses about £(>5,000 a year through ivory smuggling by Somalis.

Three times as many herrings are consumed in England as any other kind of fish.

A penny is estimated to change hands about 125,000 limes in the course of iis existence.

When dry. seaweed is richer than oatmeal or Indian corn in nitrogenous eonsliluenfs.

In one week in June the number of unemployed was reduced in (treat Britain bv 12,720.

The “giant" of the British Navy is Drum-Major B. TTammond, who is Oft. Sins, in height.

The draughts championship of England has been won bv Samuel Cohen, a Whiteebapel l.oy’of 13. An old ladv in Convent Garden has sat in the market nearly every dav for fifty years, shelling peas. Reventv-five per cent, of the world’s yield of gold in 1023 was produced within the British Empire.

If women in Britain over the age if 21 receive the vote, it will inerea.e (he electorate by 4,500,000.

Tl is said fbnt over ninety per i cut of London business people now live within ten miles of Charing Cross.

During Whitsuntide 12.804,000 passengers were carried by the London buses, or 3.185,000 more than in 1023.

The bridge linking Beading and Caversham is to he demolished and replaced by a new one costing £78.• (100, '

An old lighthouse at St. Agnes. Reilly Islands, has been converted inlo a holiday home by the Earl of Onslow.

A portrait of a Chinese lady of the 12th century by an unknown artist tins been added to flip British Museum.

A distinguished surgeon at Bath lias died from the result of a priek on the thumb while performing an operation. Eight British Bishops have a gross-income of £5.000 or upwards from their duties. Six receive less than £2.(100. London’s most expensive bridge p, maintain is the Tower Bridge, which costs about £33,000 a year to keep in repair. An Englishman who lias been living on Hudson Bay for the last eight years has travelled 35,000 miles by dog sleigh. Swarming bees have three times entered the eases of signal lamps at Northallerton, England and put out the lights. China, has started to construct one of the largest mints in the world It will be able to coin 15 tons of silver a clay. For, a finger nail to reach its full jui average of seven-twelf-ths of an inch, from 121 to 130 days of growth are necessary. A church dating back 600 years is being pulled down at Linstead Magna, in Suffolk, and its stones arc being broken up for road mending. Dying at 106, Pierre All ary, a native of'Manitoba, .left 14 ehildnn, 70 grand-children, 40 greatgrandchildren, and four great great grandchildren, American school children are encouraged to form “clubs” for growings plots of corn, etc., prizes are given each year for the best results. in Southwark, London, with a daypopulation of over 200,000, there was until recently, only one post office open on Thursday afternoon. Having taken on hoard 1,335 tons of coal at the Tyne in 1. hour 40 minutes, the collier Ethylene was able to leave on the tide on which she arrived.

Evan Roberts, aged 12, when ret a ruing from Pwllheli School, in Wales, was attacked by a snake iVur feet in lenglh. He succeeded in killing it with stones. Broad arrows are no longer used to mark the clothing of British convicts. The authorities are considering a scheme for giving prisoners lounge suits to wear. Workmen putting in uew window frames at a Derbyshire farm have found forty sovereigns of the reign of George 111. hidden in an old hoy in a hole in the wall.