NEWS IN BRIEF.
Mexico produced nearly 140 million barrels of oil in 1924. Britain is now exporting large quantities of 'cucumbers 1o Germany.
Nearly 5500 motor-omnibuses are plying for traffic in London Ibis year.
Families in London are smaller than they were in 1911, according to official statistics.
Sixteen cottages at Worcester have been sold by auction at an average price of £3l 11s.
A pigeon sold in Shropshire to a buyer in Scotland Hew more than two hundred miles hacl< to its home.
Fifteen hundred domestics were taken to Ontario by the Salvation Army during the past year The world’s heaviest liner is the Majestic. Fully laden she turns the scales at 04,000 tons. A sash worn by Prince" Charles at Culloden has been sold to a resident of Dundee for 30 guineas.
Some of the most poverty-strick-en children in London are to lie found in the schools of North Kensington. Between twenty and thirty thousand married people in Great Britain are stated to ho certilied insane. A woman of 107 who died in Nova Scotia the other day left 133 descendants, including ton groatgreat grandchildren.
Herrings are so abundant off the coast of Schleswig, Germany, that they fail to find purchasers at one farthing a pound. A retired Diullmm miner, Mr. Martin Thompson, who celebrated his 90th. birthday lately, lias workid for 73 years in the mine.
Osaka, the Japanese city, now ranks fifth in size in the world’s cities. The first four are London, New York, Berlin, and Paris. Until a few years ago some of the finest- “French” grapes were grown on the South Coast of England and shipped across the Channel
Small investors in British Government securities at the end of 1924 numbered 15,082,109. Their holdings were worth £777,834,000.
Among- UOO emigrants sailing on the Cunarder Ansonia from Southhampton recently were eight farmers and their wives and 49 children.
A stretch of the Swedish State Railways, running 280 miles from
Lulea to Riksgransen, is the longest electrified railroad in Europ. Mr. Fred Gibson, a blind newsagent in a village near Melton Mowbray, claims to have walked over 127,000 miles in the course of his work.
As many as 72 weddings took place at St. Aldhelm’s Church Bedminister, Bristol, on Easter Monday. They were solemnised in batches of four.
The Plymouth Guardians have granted a loan of £42 to an unemployed farm labourer with six children who has been guaranteed work in Australia.
Six septuagenarians, whose ages total 445, were among the passengers on the Cunaril liner Caronia, which left Liverpool for New York a few weeks ago.
Luton magistrates were recently sitting in relays to deal witJi 1509 summonses for non-payment- of rates. Cases were being dealt with at the rate of four a minute.
Water for drinking and cooking has to be carried to an Aberdeenshire school by the pupils. The local supply has been “off” for some reason since last June.
A deficiency on the Poplar (London) electricity undertaking of £28,501 at September 1922 was wiped out last year, leaving a prolit of £20,032 at December 3L
Sunday school “scholars” are not neeessariy youthful. In the Cinderford (Forest of Dean) Baptist Sunday School are two scholars over eighty years of age. Mr. Brobyn is ninety-four and Mrs Morris is ten years younger. Canaries were first brought to Europe in the early part of the sixteenth century. In its wild state the canary is green or greenishyellow tinged with brown. The wild birds have louder and clearer notes than the tame varieties.
In the stretch of sea between Portland Bill and Land's End are hundreds of wrecks, due to the activity of the German submarines during the Great War. They cause heavy damage to the nets, etc., of the fishing boats from Brixham. The sum of £3040 in gold and bank notes was discovered in 12 boxes under (lie counter of the little leather shop of Albert Lordeli, a bachelor, aged 74, who died at St. Joseph, Michigan. lie also had a savings bank credit of £IOOO. The largest library in the world is the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, founded by Louis XIV. It contains 1,500,000 volumes, 350,000 pamphlets, 180,000 scripts, 300,000 maps and charts, 1,300,000 old prints and engravings, and nearly 150,000 medals and coins.
An obi man was the hero in a lire which broke out in the Massachusetts State Hospital. He fiddled familiar tunes while 154 of the inmates were being moved to safety. All the. patients were able to dress before being moved, and there was no panic.
The world’s largest clam-shell, weighing 201 b, without the mollusc itself, is in the Museum of Natural History, New York. The giant bivalves, of which the creature that once wore this shell was one, are native, to the waters of the Indian Ocean, the East Indies, and the Philippine Islands. They are edjliel, and their shells are so hard that the natives make axe-heads of them.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2895, 11 June 1925, Page 4
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823NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2895, 11 June 1925, Page 4
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