NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3583, 6 January 1927, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Platinum costs nearly ten times as much as gold. A full-grown oyster will produce about nine million eggs. One jet of gas will ‘consume as much air as. four adults. A spider’s eyes are not in his head but in the upper part of the thorax. Irishmen have larger heads than Englishmen, Scotsmen, or Welshmen. The weekly catch of herrings at Yarmouth numbers about 300 million. Twice as much power is required to stop an express train as to start it. For 6500 vacancies in the British Navy there were recently 48,500 applicants. In ancient times, borax was extremely rare and almost as precious as gold. Almost 2000 new motor-cars are now being registered each week in London. Oyster hunting is said to be more profitable than any other kind of fishing. Four men, whom the judge at Dover Ohio, pronounced to be habitual drunkards, were sentenced to consume each a gallon of water a day for ten days consecutively. During the holidays the traffic on the Shannon-Foxlon road has been very heavy, resulting in the men employed on the punt having a busy time. ‘On New Year’s Day ninety trips were made and eighty and six-ty-five trips on the two proceeding 'days, the traffic also being heavy on Boxing Day.