NEWS IN BRIEF .

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2842, 5 February 1925, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF .

Linoleum was invent oil tin years ai»o. The Bolsheviks have about 200 el'lieient aeroplanes. There are 433,320 telephones in the London avon. An arrow was once shot 310 yards by a Major St raker. Canada saves 2(1,700,000 tons of coal each year by using waterpower. fashionable men eeased to wear swords in England about 1730. Light ta.kes 8 minutes .10 seconds 1,, pass iron? the ,-un to the earth. Orchard recurs 4(1 times its a street name .n the London postal area. The King- and Queen have given .t'jlKl toward the London Diocesan Fund. Lambeth Guardians have supplied a jobbing gardener with an artificial eye. The i.miliber of telephone calls made in Britain in 1023 was over 000 million. Professor If. \V. Chambers has traced the descent of King George to Hamlet:, Clit'den church spire, Galway, is to have (10 electric lights visible far out at sea. The Queen’s doll house is to have tt room set apart for it at Windsor Castle. Bar-rings of gold and pearls, with a total length of 12in. are being worn in Paris. At Lyons, thieves broke into the shop of a retailer of arms and slide 80 Browning pistols. The honey crop of America, which is produced in about six weeks, is valued at £10,000,000. Fish is being exported from Scotland to Genoa in four days by new Channel train ferry. A motor hearse was used as an ambulance when tt motor cyclist was injured near Exeter. The three days’ sale at Paris of the Ferrari stpmp collection realised 3,084,010 francs. About £2,000 will be shortly spent on heeovering the -red benches ir the House of Lords, London, Mud removed from London's dock during the recent 12 months was estimated at 1.191,339 cubic yards.