NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3982, 10 August 1929, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Most *of the bacon eaten in Britain is imported from Denmark. Great Britain imports more oranges than any other country. 'There are 900,000 Londoners who live more than two in a room. [Britain is ahead of all other European ■countries in cinema building. Fourteen million people have ascended the Eiffel Tower in 40 years. The .Speaker of the House of Commons receives a salary of £5,000 a year. There a/re said to be 200,000 pri-vately-owned railway-tracks in South Wales. The new Government in Britain ■is the sixth in the reign of King George V. The British Houses of Parliament we|re rebuilt in 1840-50 at a cost of £2,198,000. There are now, about 3000 trades in which gas is used for industrial processes. The remains of a Roman building have been 'brought to light in Colchester Castle Park, There are 740, members in the House of Lords and 615 in the House of iQomlnons. Each year about 250,000 seagoing passenger® arrive at or depart 'from London’s doejk's. Many Frenich newspapers are complaining of the spread of bulllighting in Flranee. A pet hedgehog which vanished a year ago from a garden in Surrey lias lately returned. There are now JSOOO buses running in London; last year they carried 1917 million people. No fewer than seven new theatres are now in process of erection in the West End of London. The blind viicar of Brafferton, near Easingwold in Yorkshire, has died after .63 years las vicar there. There are now mure than ia hundred school companies of Girl Guides and Brownie packs in England. ' Except for cases in which Englishmen are involved, Maltese is to supersede Italian in (the Law Courts of Malta.