NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3005, 2 March 1926, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

There are now 13 nmnarehs and 12 presidents in Europe.

Strikes exacted the heaviest toll in 1912, when 40,900,000 working lavs were lost.

Women are eligible for live ranks >f honour in Order-of the British

Empire. Most British express trains run at considerably less than sixty miles per hour. The number of Church of England clergymen, over 70 is about 8 per cent, of the total.

Nearly £1,500,000 has been spent by the London County Council in widening the Strand. London’s Post Office Directory this year weighs 111 b. 70z., and contains about 4000 pages.

The rateable value of ihe administrative County of London is over £50,400,000. The world’s record for acliery is still 310 yards, made by an Englishman, Major gtraker, in 1807. Thousands of letters are posted in Britain every year without any address on the envelopes. The British Air Force is far more costly per machine than any other air force or air arm in the world. The number of applicants for patents in Britain last year was 33,000, nearly the highest on record. In Siwa, the derelict capital of a lost world in the Libyan Desert, wives may be bought at 24s each.

At least 700 new clergymen are required every year to keep the Church of England fully staffed. Railway locomotives, including steam, electric, and petrol, on British railways numbered 24,288 in 1924.

A ring lost for ten years has been found in Cumberland and sent to its owner, who is now in British Columbia.