NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3555, 28 October 1926, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A new California church has built its spire in the form of a lighthouse. A giant tooth as big as a teacup was found in a Portland quarry not long ago. On coal alone last year the British railways spent approximately £14,600,000. There are said to be 4,000 people in the United States who are over a hundred years old. St. Peter’s Church in the City of London is said to be England’s oldest church.

Some of the horses used by the mounted police in London are valued at as much as £SOO each. Continued freezing apparently cannot kill the typhoid germ, according to recent experiments. Goats are often driven over the ploughed fields in the Nile Valley to break up the clods. Using the most up-to-date machinery, a baker can make about 470 loaves in seven minutes.

A grain of rice on which 150 words had been engraved was sold for £IOO at Cairo, recently. Last year the State of California I urned out more than £20,000,000 worth of canned goods. The Shaftesbury Society gives about 50,000 poor children a day in the country every summer. There are nearly 12,000 husbands reported missing in London, according to official figures. Over 13 million tons of coal and 38 million pints of oil were con sumed on all the British railway*' last year. Cast-iron houses are being constructed for the Corporation of Derby, and 2000 are being built in Scotland. Over 20,000 meals have to be supplied every day to the Barnardo Family, including about 1000 gals, of milk. Neither rents nor rates have been paid for some years by the inhabitants in a certain street of Port Talbot.