NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2854, 5 March 1925, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Steps have been taken to increase the number of London police women to 50. Five per eeftt. of the physicians and surgeons in the United States are women. Canada’s population has increased nearly half a million since the 1921 census. Australian imports in October were £12,087, 511, the exports being £15,015,450. A pair of North American robins which recently arrived at the London Zoo are of an intense blue all over. John Edwards, 80, a well-known Welsh bard, and his wife Sarah, 79, died at Caerphilly within six hours or' each other. The German war casualties officially announced were 2,055, 000 deaths. The wounded in (he home armv alone numbered 4.248,000. Two new irrigation districts are being launched in Southern Alberta, the areas involved comprising upwards of 20,000 acres. Mr. Sydney Harper, Mayor of Islington, arranged for 5000 scats at the Agricultural Hall Circus for the school children of the district.

Shipped to New York in the tierman liner Bremen, 15,000 Canaries of the ITartz Mountain type brought fin average of £1 each. Great Britain was the largest conirilmlor to Canada's new population last year, accounting for nearly 50 per edit, of (In' immigrants. Seventy-four tons of jasmine blossom have been gathered in the Grasse (Riviera) district lliis season for making extract of jasmine. Bricks produced in Britain before the war averaged 2,805,000,000 annually. I| is estimated that the present output is nearly double that number. Accidents to the slab oi one British railway increased I nun 2291 during January to September, [<)23, to 2591 during the same period last year.

It is estainted that there are 100,000 radio receiving sets in the homes of Canadians. The number of receiving licenses sold during last year was 31,009. Figures compiled by the Japanese Consulate at Vancouver (British Columbia) show that Canada is rapidly developing a good butler trade with Japan. A special Great V estern Railway train which left Plymouth at noon reached Paddington at 3.59 p.in. the same day, covering the 220 miles in 239 minutes. The largest hell in Britain is “Great Paul,” in the south-west tower of St. Pau’s Cathedral, London. It 9U't. in diameter, and weighs seventeen tons. A three-year-oid , boy, shipped from Kansas by parcel post to his mother at New Orleans, was unclaimed for three days, as the, mother was out of town. Mr. W. J. Gardener, registrar of marriages in Brentford Union area, England, has retired after 35 years’ service, during which he officiated av 7000 marriages. Miss Sosiu lvuselevic, aged two, has voyaged from Southampton by I lie White Star liner Olympic to New York, travelling unaccompanied to join her mother. The Lotal value of the principal Held crops of Canada for 1924 is now estimated at about £189,732,080, an increase of about £9,899,450 compared with 1923. All records for the number of vessels entering Montreal during a season of navigation were broken when the number of ships visiting Montreal in 1924 totalled 1223.

Batter produced in Saskatchewan during October topped the l,0l)(l,000lb. mark, the lii'sl lime licit il has occurred in that mouth in llie history of the province.

Tulis of dried Hies, used in the making of paints, arc imported to Britain from Calm s and Mexico. They arc really cochineal insects aiid yield scarlet and crimson dyes. Canadian callie. shipped to Great Britain from Montreal during the .-enson just closed totalled 44, 100, mi increase of more than 13,001) c. mpured with the previous year. The total number of deep-sea -hips passing up P* Vancouver 1 1 uni January 1 tu November 20 in 11)2-1 was 932. This is a gain ut Mi l vessels-over the same period n year before. From January 1 to November 30 ol last year 2,024,181! people visited the Loudon Zoo. This is a record and is -144,970 more I ban the figure for the corresponding period in 1923. Sir Nevil Mncready unveiled a tablet, erected at Rouen Cathedral I.the Imperial War Graves Commission in memory of the Empire’s war dead. It hears the Royal Anns surrounded by those ut the dominions, and is situated in the Chapel of St. Joan of Arc. Two expert rabbit trappers from the South Island will arrive in Wanganui on Monday and will be employed by the Eaten -Waverley Rabbit Board says the Wanganui Herald.

The Council of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce unanimously passed the following resolution liisl night: “That this Chamber views with great alarm the attempt Lo inilueuce the Government drastically to alter the ordinary conditions of trading iu dairy produce by an Order in Council, which will probably result in disaster to the Dominion, and it instructs its exporting committee to forward to the Government reasoned arguments agaust the proposal in question and to take such steps as shall obtain an expression of informed public opinion on the subject.” The land round Ekeluliima is

not essentially a potato-growing area, but an independent witness relates to the “Express” the result from one root grown in the Rongokokako dstrict, when 120 tubers, all counted 80 large and the rest small, v, as the tally—a record that will take some beating. “Napier surf-bathers should beware,” said a well-known local trawler owner and skipper to a Daily Telegraph reporter. “Sharks” be continued, “arc becoming more and more plentiful in the hay every day, and big, ferocious-looking ones at that. Hardly a day passes but that we see several of these monsters cruising around at a compnrat.ively short, distance from the breakers.”