NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2857, 12 March 1925, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Canadian Aaltle shipped to Great Britain from Montreal dutiing tlie season just closed totalled 44,155, an increase of more Ilian 1.4,00(1 compart'd willi the previous year. The total number of deep-sea ships passing up to Vancouver from January 1 to November 20 in 1024, v;is 042. This is a gain of 10-1 vessels over the same period a year before. From .January 1 to November 40 of last year, 2,02-1,180 people visited the London Zoo. This is a record and is 441,070 more Ilian the figure for the corresponding period in 1024.

Of every thousand British children ten or more have lost the power of seeing dearly at a distance by the age of four, while in twenty years 150 will have heroine short-sighted. Wives among the Eskimos are slated to be useful for chewing the skin of one type of seal, whose hide

is so tough that it cannot lie used for boolmaking until it has been well chewed. The estimated value of the total wool dip of the three prairie province's, Alberta. Saskatchewan, and Manitoba for the last year is about !.120,440, obtained for 2,(i!)0,000lb. o| wool.

Shooting foxes, which is regarded a> wrong in England, is a popular sport on the Continent, particularly in Denmark. In that country fox-hunting on the English plan is prohibited as cruel. The lmgs slaughtered in the packing industry in Canada during 1024 numbered 2,250,394, an increase of 320,182 over (.he previous vear. The numbers of cattle and sheep slaughtered were 83.2,142 and -100,745 respectively. Canada’s total trade for the eight months of the fiscal year ended November 40 totals about, £248,800,000, a decrease of about £13,800,000 as compared with the corresponding eight months ol the previous liscal year.

Air was pumped through tubes into the smoke helmets of many ~f tbe men of the Manchester, Salford and Ship Canal Eire Brigades when lighting a recent cotton fin- in a hold on the liner Chinese Prince m Manchester Ship Canal. A Liverpool man lias patented a two-deck baby <-arr'iagr. There an auxiliary floor, extending pait leugll l of the perambulator, which, together with the normal seat ol jlie carriage, makes an arrangement. somewhat like two ship’s bunks in miniature.