NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otaki Mail, Volume 27, 19 November 1919, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

There arc 16,0(10 food officials in. Pet rograd. One coffee.' tree yields about a. pound of beans each season. The biggest bomb Britain ■ made weighed 3300 pounds. A letter 'written by Luther in 1543 has been sold for £2lO. Influenza in South Africa cost insurance comi>unies £1,500,000. There are £210,000,000 worth of £1 and 10s notes in circulation. X The Germans introduced poison gas on April 22nd, 1915, at Yprcs. Six V.C. ’s ha ve been conferred upon Jews since the beginning of the war. It is said that 73,000 Danes fought in the Allied armies against the Germans. -A leakage of mustard gas form a factory caused three deaths in an English town. £12,000,000 is necessary, to cover the expenses of the Finnish War of Independence. Rochester . Cathedral now lias a woman bellringer, a woman organist, and a woman verger. A farm for the training of women in igriculture has recently been started in Essex, England. 1 Empty shell cases were used at. Nottingham for ballot boxes during the recent British elections. Boys of 15 engaged in acetylenewelding operations in England earned £5 a week during the war. A letter has been delivered at Wilmslow, England, which was posted in Ireland on August 15th, 1912. New magistrates for a town-in England' include the head porter at the station and a postman now in the army. It is reported in Germany thatKrupp's munition factories* at Essen will be utilised for the textile industry. Lip-reading classes lor disabled (deaf) sailors and soldiers are to be continued by tbe Loudon County Council. The King sent 11 ewt. of coal each as a Christmas gift to several hundred poor' people, aged GO and upwards, at Windsor. Alfred ifedsull. who was a member of the crew which manned the lirst lifeboat placed at Deal over 50 years ago. has died, aged 76. It is costing Westminster City Council £6OO to dismantle air-raid ’ shelters and remove direction tablets and illuminated box-signs. . ' No fewer than 3,715 pearls were recently received in London from the women of the Empire for sale in aid of the Red Cross.