NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2932, 5 September 1925, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A full-grown oyster will produce about nine miliion eggs. There are about seven million eats in Britain. A strip of country 200 miles long in Pennsylvania contains 40,000 oil wells. Regulation of traffic by mounted constables has proved a success In Glasgow. Dogs to the number of 217,030 wore provided with licenses in London last year. In Denmark those who cut down forests must plant an equivalent area with trees. Electric cookers are to be fitted in the houses of one of Hammersmith’s housing estates. In the first four months of last year over 2,550,000 working days were lost through strikes in Great Britain, but during the same time this year only 44,000 days were lost. The temperature of the sea decreases as (lie depth increases. In the Pacific Ocean, for instance, when the temperature at the surface was 54 degrees Fa hr., at a depth of 2052 ft. i|- was 40.5 degrees, a difference of 13.5 degrees. Twenty-five years ago 20,000 chinchilla skins were exported annually from Chile. Now only about 150 come. A skin formerly sold for a shilling; now as much as £2O has been paid for one. The animall is tending to disappear. In the Rockall depression, some 100 miles north-west of Ireland and 1 Scotland, the Atlantic is about SOOOft. deep, or a little over 14 miles, while the North Pacific Ocean there is the Great Ocean Chasm which is six miles deep. The Indians of Araucania, South America, have made the Rev. C. A. Sadieir, a Canadian missionary, honorary general chief of their race. They have done this that he may the better advise them how to safeguard their rights in the lands they own.