NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2791, 30 September 1924, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Britain’s reserves of coal are estimated at 155,000,000,000 tons. Cherries were introduced into England from Flanders in 3540. Nine-tenths of the women in China cannot write their own names. Sea-bathing is now forbidden to Turkish women living in Constantinople. A quarter of the land in Great Britain has changed hands in the past six years. Yew Burlington Street. London, was the first street to he numbered in June, 1764. Flying boats are now being used to “spot” herrings off the British north-east coast. Sawfish, found mainly in the Tropics, often exceed 20ft. in length, with a saw 6ft. long. The proportion of polygamous marriages in Turkey is now less than one in a thousand. Spanish lessons are to be given by means - of a gramophone in an English university. Berlin’s young men of fashion are now having their clothes cut in the luiost. English style. London can boast of twenty women undertakers, while sixty women are qualified auctioneers. A powder made from fish which will increase human height, is announced by a Japanese scientist.

The Caspian Rea is practically tideless, there being- no appreciable tidal movement of the waters. Travellers on the trains of one French railway are to be warned of the next stop by means of loudspeakers. Oysters are nervous creatures and a sudden shock such as a loud thunderclap will kill hundreds of them. In London there are many timber houses still in existence which were built, before the (treat Fire in