NEWS IN BRIEF.
, The British Museum has paid as much as £315 for a Shakespere autograph. Bozeat, Northants, with a population of 1100, has 250 residents named Drage.
It is possible in Glasgow to travel 23 miles on the tramways for twopence. The first map on which the word Australia appears was published in the year 1824. There were 2,395,174 wireless licenses in force in Britain at the end of last year. The late Lord Roberts disliked cats and camels and had an aversion to blue stamps. In Winnipeg, Canada, out of a population of 191,996, only 37,181 were born in foreign countries. One inch of rain on an acre of land would fill more than 600 barrels of 45 gallons capacity, each. An acre of good fishing’ will yield more food in a week than an acre of the best land will yield in a year.
Diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, rubies and other precious stones are always much colder than their imitations.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3837, 28 August 1928, Page 1
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162NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3837, 28 August 1928, Page 1
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