NEWS IN BRIEF.
Short-sightedness is quite common among monkey-. Canada exports over £50,000,000 worth of fur* annually. Silver is the earliest currency mentioned in the Scriptures. As a result ot war's ravages there are half a million orphan" in Servia. Experts say that Victoria, in Australia, has at lea>t 30.000 million tons of coal. Great Britain has spent £l4o.oCk'."')" on industrial housing since the war began. Mushrooms, a world-wide product, are as plentiful in Siberia as in tropical climes. Records made by Cicero and Pliny tell of the Eomans using iuk made of the liquor of cuttlefish. 'Sine hundred and ninety-seven cutting tools alone are required in manufacturing a modern rifle. "The Marseillaise' 3 via; so. called because it was sung in Paris by volunteers from llarceliies. In a single Jyear s:> many aj half a. million case: of self-destruction tare been recorded in China. Buring the war the Grand Zleet consumed 11.0iJ0.000 tons of fuel in stemming over tie Sea.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 7 June 1920, Page 4
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