NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3625, 12 April 1927, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

London’s rateable value has increased by £5,500,000, according to the quinquennial assessment. A boy burglar at Gateshead was stated to have used a large knife, n soldering iron and a poker. The ages of nine people who died nt Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. in one week recently, totalled 700 years.

Tlie tallest-known ferns exist in the Hawaiian Islands, where they grow to a height of 30ft. or more. An increase of 11 per cent, in motor licences issued this year is reported by the London County Council, The flower crop in the Scilly Isles is maturing rapidly, and twenty ions a day are being shipped to England. The human heart makes 10 beats per minute fewer when the body is in a lying position than when upright. 7 , Two railway coaches forincilx retained for Royalty have been converted into a bungalow at. Woodliam Ferris, Essex. Houses of a special stereotyped construction are to lie erected by the London County Council for experimental purposes. The estimated loss caused by fires in the London County Council area in 1920 was £453,022,. compared with £000,411 in 1925. The original inventor of the reaping machine was the Rev. P*d rick Bell, a former minister ol Camyllie, in Forfarshire. Nealy 3000 salmon were netted in "three hauls at the opening of the net salmon fishing on the River Don, near Aberdeen. An inmate of an asylum for 5b years, a Truro man cost the local guardians £2OOO.