NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2952, 22 October 1925, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

London’s Fire Brigade cost £761,020 last year. Last year Palestine received nearly 12,000 Jews as immigrants. Three men have been fined in Norfolk for trailing- paper streamers from charbanes. Aliens who landed in Britain during- the six months ended June 30, numbered 162,982. Schoolgirls in Ohio, America, have been studying the effects of different diets on white rats. A man has been fined five shillings for leaving a newspaper on the grass in a London Park.

This year in Britain there have been 212,000 acres less than the area of last year under wheat. Nearly fifty names in a recent passenger list of the White Star liner Majestic began with Mac. A baby seal was caught by hand on the beach at Scarborough by a Manch ester visitor.

Plates used for printing British Admiralty charts cost as much as £IOO apiece for engravnig alone. Brantwood, the beautiful house on Collision Lake, where John Buskin died in 1900, is to be sold. A huge mountain of salt has been discovered in Algeria, and is to be mined for commercial purposes. A musical chair competition at Hillingdon was won bv a competitor who was over eighty years of age.

After an unbrdken appearance during 84 years, the Neue Pester Journal, of Budapest, has ceased publication.

The longest stretch of telephone cable in the world measures 861 miles, is situated in America, and can carry 250 ’phone calls and double that number of telegraph messages at the same time. Essex’s oldest -cathedral is a barn-like edifice which was built in 663 at Ithanchestei', now Bradwell-on-Sea. The sacred building has been in turn a church, a lighthouse, a barn and a billet for soldier’s.

To guard deep-sea cables from the attack of teredo, a submarine insect, every inch has to be wrapped in brass tape. During th eOO years the resident population of the City of London has decreased from over 10,000 till it is now 14,000. The forest fires in British Columbia this summer have been the most disastrous in the history of the province. An Australian professor has ofered to send to England a hundred fowls that will lay, twice as many eggs as British liens. The newspapers of Athens are loudly protesting against the introduction of pigeon shooting at the new racecourse there. If a. boy’s hair were left uncut it would never grow as long as the average girl’s, as women have a stronger growth of hair than men. A chimney 16ft. higher than Nelson’s column has been built at Harrow without bricks. It is a huge tube of reinforced concrete.

For having reared 120 lambs from 71 ewes Mr. IT. W. Fowler has been awarded the Tring Agricultural Society’s first prize for shepherds.

Masks which are supposed to indicate the character of the wearer are the latest fashion l’ad. These are donned at special midnight supper parties.

The Housing- Committee of the London County Council have arranged for wire guards to be supplied with ad gas fires in the council's dwellings. Two swallows with their nests inside the parish church at Pirbright, Surrey, were so tame that ithey .would fly about the church during service. Bicycles are to be provided for Wiltshire children who live far from schools; but parents will have to repair punctures in the tyres of these machines. All London County Council trains are being equipped with an automatic signalling device which shows other vehicles when the car is going to stop. “Leaves” of gold and nickel have been made by a German scientist so thin, that it would require 2,500,000 of them to measure an inch in thickness. A Scottish cairn in memory of Mr. Bonar Law is to be erected at Rexton, New Brunswick, close to the Px-esbyterian manse where he was born. The first aerial stowaway has appeared in America, where a sev-enteeni-year-old lad hung on the wing of an army aeroplane and was carried up into the air.