NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3699, 4 October 1927, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Silver is the value of 15‘d. is contained in a shilling. Fewer than five women in every 10,000 ever reach 100 years of age.

Blood passes through the heart at the rate of seven miles an hour.

Pine, oak, spruce, and fir trees are most likely to he struck by lightning.

Wigan has had a successful pageant summing up 1800 years in history. Forty thousand roses are required to produce one ounce of attar of roses.

The British ti’ade in silk is now five times as great as it was before the War.

Bedford claims to have the greatest number of bicycles of any town of its size.

One seventh ,of the British working population is now employed in the clothing trades. The height of the correctly-pro-portioned human figure is six times the length of the right foot.

The Atlantic, the second largest of the five great oceans, has an area of 30,000,000 square miles. A Lincolnshire policeman summoned his own son at Spilsby for riding a bicycle without a light. The Masterton Plunket Society, having in hand £721 and other amounts to be received making a total of £OOO, has decided to call for tenders! for its new building. Hastings has over 50 miles of concrete footpaths, and the work of putting down others is being continued.

Soane years ago a start was made at Ellerslie to erect a church in connection with a local mission, but after the concrete walls were up and the rafters put in position the work was stopped. The building will in future be used as a suet factory.

When the manager of the Hokianga County Council called for eight men for some road work, between 30 and 40 natives besieged the County offices. It is said there is much poverty among the Maoris in that district at present. The conveyance of dairy produce on the railways during the year ended March 31, 1927, showed an increase of 9207 tons compared with the previous 12 months. Farmers are realising more than ever the importance of testing, and particularly so the advantage accruing from the group system. Seven groups have already been formed in Taranaki this year, as against three last year. Between 8000 and 9000 cows will be tested under the system this year. “Going at 6/-. Any advance on 6/-? Going at 0/-.” A smile lit up the auctioneer’s face as his hammer dropped. This was the price realised a lb. in the open mart the other morning for the first Christ-church-grown tomatoes (says the Sun). It works out at about a shilling a tomato. There is always keen competition among the growers of the Christchurch district to be the first bo get their fruit on the market and the honour this year goes to Mr. Falla, a well-known Hallington grower. Within the next few years Christchurch will have a new railway station with its main entrance opposite Madras street, according to information given to the Mayor (the Rev. J. K. Archer) during his visit to Wellington. “The threshing returns to date show a yield over 7,500,000 bushels, and wheat and flour imported during the current season represent the equivalent to the end of August of 1,250,000 bushels, with the addition of several cargoes of wheat to arrive this and next month for Auckland. With the 15,000 acres or more of wheat still to be threshed, according to the statistician’s estimate, well over 9,000,000 bushels are in sight for the year. Excess importations last year were responsible for an unnecessarily heavy Carrying over, to the detriment of the early season market, and a similar experience is not improbable this year.”

Baronets who appear on the Official Roll number 1552, the oldest title dating back more than three centuries.

In spite of the efforts made to preserve it, the Welsh language is being spoken by fewer people each year.

Industrial disputes have caused the loss of 338,000,000 working clays, in Britain, during the last eight years. Artificial pearls are being manufactured from herring scales. Some of the pearls are realising over £SO each. Boots and shoes worn in a year by the women of Great Britain are valued at a grand total of about £25,000,000.

A runaway bull recently dashed through the streets of Ashforby Hill, near Melton Mowbray, with a five-barred gate on its horns. Among the many tributes to Lindbergh have been a. remarkable number in verse, one New York newspaper receiving 1500 poems. Jerusalem has received by road, under a strong guard, 75 tons of its new silver, nickel, and bronze money, to the value of £430,000. A hen belonging to the stationmaster at Staddlothorpt?, in Yorkshire, after laying a series of eggs with double yolks laid one with three yolks. The member-ship of the Communist Party in Britain has declined in the last year by nearly onethird. According to a report of the Central Committee, prepared for the forthcoming conference of the party, the membership throughout the whole of Great Britain is 7377, as compared with 11,000 last year, age of nicotine. The imported brands are practically all of them loaded with . nicotine. Our New Zealand tobaccos, on the other hand, contain so little that they may be smoked all day without any ill-effects. They are full of flavour anil fragrance too —sweet and mellow and delicious. Ask for “Rivcrhead Gold” if you want a fine aromatic, “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), if you like a good medium, or “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead), if you prefer a grand full-flavoured sort.