NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2992, 30 January 1926, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

In demolishing Latlion Hall, Lancashire, sixteen explosions were necessary. Bicycles are so popular in France that there is one for seven persons of the population. Records of the rainfall in the

British Isles are now taken at 5000 different places. Canada has no fewer than twenty-three universities, six of them being State-controlled. Gibraltar has no public debt, no tramway, no railway, and no land capable of cultivation. Of the population of the British Empire in 1921, only about oneseventh is of European descent. During 1924 the London Fire Brigade attended 4819 fires. This was eighteen fewer than in 1923. St. Dunstan’s has provided the first blind student to win a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University. Foxes were so numerous in East Kent last year that they have been seen in broad dayligh; in Iho lanes. Eacii copy of Ihe London Telephone Directory contains 1201) pages, and weighs nearly four and analf pounds. During the Prince of Wales vovago on board the Repulse over 1,300,000 cigarettes were sold in the ship’s canteen. Championship lawn-tennis was recently played by artificial light for the first time at Queen’s Club London. Every year two and a-lialf million tons of silt and mud have to be cleared away to keep the Port of London open. Constructing all the woodwork himself, including the doors and windows, a blind ex-soldier has just built his own house.