NEWS IN BRIEF.
There 9 vo »o drinking saloons in Labrador.
Col toil is bow hoiiipr grown in Son Salvador. Tht' rateable value of tlio City of London is Di.diil.sll. Canada is to provide IKiOO Brit isli families with farms next year. London's street aiM-itleals 'nave increased from 1 (>.——<> in Ibis lo ■JT. liil) in la Bath water is .-till (lowing flirougli tla- lead pipes in use in Human times. Queen Elizabeth suffered front had teeth, due to her excessive fondness for sweets. One of Hie most valuable duett ir.ents stored in Somerset House is the will of Shakespeare. I mler London tire 180 miles of japes conveying' hydraulic power fu work lifts, ele., in oiliees. Sinee 10J.li America is said to have, speii 1- more than .Cso,o(H),nuo m paintings seulplitres and tapesti um Thu famuli-, i.'a-lie ha!ten at 1 >a ri mull t n ini*, been let to tile loan .-unni-ii for n-e as a tea house.
i Uiieei:. in the ail service. iil fuf | ; i,I! ||\ mg duly ami posted in Ihe Bailed Kingdom, nnmher Nil. A musie stand, whieh has lately !e mi invented, will min over the -.heel - when a foot lever is pressed. The average annual eonsmnpiion uf tea, reekoned in its dry stale, in Britain is nine pounds per person. \hi ill i (iOO million pennies are eulleeled evei v year iii London ga>. in,'lei's h\ the Ga- Light ami c ( umjainy. Widening London streets m make leom fui- t rams has cost Ihe London Uuimiv Cointeil iihruit fSOtl.iltllt in ad. A mushroom -ill. in eireumfeivtiee ;,;ji} bib. in w eight has been lottnd in ll’.e woods near t ha(eait rotix. lla tl'-e. A statuette uf ivory, six inehe> high, wlliell was recently dug up til Iv_.py!, is lie lie vet I to dole bark to i n.non B.C. London was never walled ail ,onnd even in the times ul the Roman.-.. The b’iver Thames was its safeguard in the South. Ait old. blind pony led the iuner;.i proetissiou at I lie invent .Inneral (it Devandeu. M uiunuii t nsh ire, of the Rev. Daniel Mathias, the former vicar, Mr Mathias used the poll' for miinv years to cover the extensive parish.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2803, 28 October 1924, Page 1
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367NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2803, 28 October 1924, Page 1
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