NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3017, 30 March 1926, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Wireless provides work directly for about 40,000 people. Farmers in Britain have spent £20,000 on advertising milk. England’s oldest church is said to he St. Peter’s, in the city of London.

Some West End doctors are said to charge as much as four guineas a visit.

Every year Avood and pulp imports to the value of £6,000,000 go into Britain.

Silver is, bulk for bulk, ten times as heavy as water. Gold is 19 times as heavy.

In 1925 mail steamers between Dover and Ostend carried 298,479 passengers—a record. London’s public houses have decreased by 1738 since 1904. There are hoav 5398 in the County Council area.

Workers in the artificial silk factories seem to be almost immune from influenza, because of the chemicals used.

A student who wishes to qualify as a dentist in Britain lias to go through a four-year course, at a cost of about £BOO. Diamonds are a better investment than pearls, in the opinion of many jewellers; pearls can be destroyed but diamonds cannot.

While appearing in two different plays each day recently, Mi’. Seymour Hicks, the well-knoAvn actor, had to say 20,000 words daily.

Watches are safer if carried in the riglithand pocket of the waistcoat, as pick-pockets almost invariably go for the lefthand pocket.

Of the widows who received war pensions 96,500 had re-married up to the end of last October.

Visitors to the London Zoo last year numhei’ed nearly 2,000,000, while £58,590 was taken in gatemoney.

London’s police force is smaller to-day than it Avas in 1911. In that year there were 19,898 men in the Metropolitan Force; now there are 19,356. Insurance rates against burglary in shops and offices have risen in Britain from 7s Gd per cent, pre-war days to as much as 15s and upwards per cent. A Wesleyan minister who has just died in England at the age of 92 learned to cycle alter he Avas 60, and rode 42,000 miles between 70 and 87, Avhen he gave it up.