NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3827, 4 August 1928, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Greater London increases its population at the rate of 75,000 a year. Nearly all the names used for cotton muslin fabrics are of Hindu origin. The American public, it is estimated, spends an average of £2-10,-000 a week for chewing-gum. Cologne Cathedral has the highest spire in Ihe world, reaching to 52S feet from the ground, level. The average dailj; consumption of milk in England and Wales is less than one-third of a pint per person.

American tourists are already arranging to ship -1000 motor-ears by steamer to Europe for use on I heir travels.

The largest insect known is the elephant beetle of Venezuela. It sometimes attains a weight of half a pound. For some years the annual cost of running the village of Stognmber, in West Somerset, lias been between 1/2 and 2/6. In parts of North Siam both parties to a lawsuit are put under water, and the one staying linden the longest wins the suit. Bricks have been sold in New York during, the last few months at a price actually below what they cost to manufacture. A freehold house at /teasham, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, which brought in an annual rent of £2 12s has been sold for £3. Pwllheli’s horse-drawn tramway system, opened in 1895, lias closed down, and the new Coroporation omnibus service inaugurated. At a recent banquet of the "Zoological Society of Ireland, eggs sent from China 50 years ago were served and pronounced delicious.