NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3026, 22 April 1926, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

111 spite of all the jokes, figures prove that Englishmen are more saving than Scots. Their average saving is £6 16s as compared with £2 Is 8d for the Scot.

The demand for pig-iron in Britain is so heavy that the North Coast iron-masters have disposed of the whole of their output for a considerable time ahead. Pears, plums, peaches, grapes and melons arc included in the fruit cargo of a liner which recently reached Britain from South Africa. There ivere more than 105,000 cases of fruit on board. The engines of two big motor passenger ships to be built on the Tee for American owners are to be constructed in Switzerland. The building of the ships is expected to provide about 18 months’ work. At Combault, near Melun, a woman named Gravelay recently killed her baby, aged five months, by giving it a considerable quantity of rum during several consecutive days. The death lias occurred at Sheffield of Mr. Thomas IV. Ward, the founder on a big scale of the business of shipbreaking in relation to war vessels. He was the first to buy a battlehip complete to be broken up. Money is scarce in Poland just now, many of the farmers cannot get money for their produce. The Diet has, therefore, passed a law to allow them to pay their taxes in corn, potatoes, or beet, all of which art produced in great quantities in Poland. Experiments are being made by a British University professor in Hong Kong to produce rain from fog. The island is at certain periods of the year troubled with heavy fogs, but with too little rain. The Government has voted Roffey £SOO for electric machinery. That there is £25,000,000 more money available in Canada to-day for general commerce than is usual at this time of the year was a recent statement by Sir John Aird, president j)f the Canadian Bank pf Commerce, speaking at Toronto. “The Dominion,” he added, “is in splendid shape to go ahead.” Some 130 non-stop runs *of 100 miles and over are made every day over British railways, and they are practically dependent on the use of water troughs. The approximate amount of water consumed in the run’from London to Plymouth is 6900 gallons, roughly 30 gallons to each mile and 30 tons of water in all. The weight of the moving air becomes of vast importance in a high wind. Thus a man standing in a gale at 50 miles an hour will, during one hour, receive the impact of the air in a column 50 miles long, 6ft. high, and about Ift. wide, the weight of which is approximately 58 tons. Every minute he has nearly a ton of air hurled at him!