NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2797, 14 October 1924, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The sewing machine was first patented in England in 1775. During six days in August 250.000 people from the provinces visited London. A bird sanctuary of about ‘27 no. has been established al Gorsedene, near Farnham, Surrey. Mr. A. Lee. a Leighton Buzzard lorry driver, has covered 139,2bo miles on the same waggon.

(•lass windows, oxeepl in clmrches and in (lie houses of wealthy people were rare before (be reign of Henry VIII.

A wonderful rope of perfectly matched pearls, valued at £250,000, was recently offered for sale in a London shop.

To test flight conditions an aeroplane fitted with a miniature laboratory is being built for the British Aii; Minis! rv.

The fishermen of St. Ives, Cornwall. play marbles in their spare time with as much zest ns tin* average schoolboy.

Cbinclionn trees, from which quinine is obtained, have been responsible for the saving of millions of lives in the East. A book lias just been shown to the King eonlaining the names of 49.434 Irishmen who fell in the great, war.

The deposits in the British Post, flfilee Savings Bank are now £274,009,000, an increase of £-1,000.000 since lasi year.

Animals are sacrificed to an idol called “Nicholas on the Wheels,’’ by a religious sect recently discovered in Russia.

The rainiest place in ihe world, Oherrapnnji, in Eastern Bengal, has had a rainfall of more than 137 inches in two weeks.

Upwards of 12,000,000 apples had been sold in the Australian fruit shop at Wembley up till last week in August. On the British railways last year, 743 people were killed and 23,250 injured, an increase of 15 and 3778 as compared with 1022, A cargo of 4500 tons of sunflower seeds lately reached Liverpool from the Black Sea. The seeds will lie used for cattle cake. Tho Crimean authorities are planning a- powerful hydro-electric, station on Ihe Black River. It will serve the Sebastopol region.

School playgrounds to the number of 80 were kept open in London during the summer holidays, to keep children off the streets.

Lord Harris, who is 74 years of ago, played in a recent cricket match, in which he scored 18, including two fours, and broke his bat. An inverted rainbow appeared near Boston. U.S. recently. The bow tamed towards the earth and the ends pointed towards the sky. Barcelona is the centre of silk weaving in Spain, but the industry lias been steadily declining owing to the shortage of mulberry trees. With the aid of a. network of wires 5000 miles long it is now possible to supply 70 per cent, of the Dutch population with electricity. Specimens of sago, rice, rubber, tea, and many other household commodities in growth can be seen in the greenhouses of Kew Gardens, London.