NEWS IN BRIEF.
Nearly 500 brands of tobacco are now grown in the British Empire. ißiitaingharn people have nearly £10,000,000 in their Municipal Bank. In 1644, during the Civil War, the English Parliament sat on Christmas Day. The cost of collecting house refuse throughout Britain is said to amount to £10,000,000 a year. Mont Blanc is declared to be worth two .millions a year to France owing to the tourists it attracts. There are still 88 toll bridges left ih England, 40 having been ransomed in the last two years. Hadrian’s Wall across the North of England has been taken over as a national monument. Turkey’s first woman barrister appeared before the Stainlboul Court recently to plead in her first case. Miss Eglantyne Jebb, one of the founder’s of the iSave-the-Childien Fund, has died in a nursing home in Geneva. Pullets belonging to the Bishop of Southwell laid their first eggs on the day he opened a local poultry show. In fourteen years members of the Hileot Street Wesleyan Mission, Shoreditch, have collected 432,000 farthings to build a new institute. It is said that a “Say it with Flowers” campaign has increased the sale of cut flowers four times over in America during seven years. The turbines of the new French liner He de France have 800,000 blades, and required for their construction 115 sailes of strip-brass. Within the next 50 years, if not sooner, eight people out of every ten will be wearing spectacles, according to eye specialists in Britain. A steeplejack at Gloucester, suddenly realising that a chimney was unsafe, sent down his son just in time to save his life, and was killed himself. Mr. Samuel Ward, of Staines, England, who recently celebrated his diamond wedding at the age of 80, has never seen the sea or been to the .theatre. A new lamp has just been completed by Messrs Chance of Smethwidk to shine on Watling Island, near the West Indies, with 700,000 candle-power. In a Norfolk village most of the green peas are grown from a stock of seeds said .to he about 2400 years old. They were discovered in the case of an Egyptian mumlrny. Under the will of William. Robinson, who was sherift of Hull 120 years ago, 12 poor widows were Handed currant loaves over his grave fit Hull on Christmas Day. Of 477 foreigners refused permission to land in England during the first three months of 1928, 66 were Geijman, 62 Scandinavian, 42 Polish, 36 French, and. 11 Russian. The deepest well in the world drilled for oil is at Olinda, California. It attained a depth of 8046 ft. The deepest producing well is at Roseerans, California, 7591 ft. deep. The bearings of a modern bicycle contain about 250 balls. These cost well under a shilling, yet every ball is a true sphere of .correct diameter within one ten-thousandth of an inch.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3933, 20 April 1929, Page 1
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481NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3933, 20 April 1929, Page 1
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