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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 20 July 1907, Page 4

The Lancet says that the horse is gradually becoming a "butcher's animal.' - In .Paris last year 45,000 horses were slaughtered at one abattoir for food purposes. The kangaroo readily, leaps from 60ft to 70ft. The greatest recorded leap of a horse is 37ft. The Black Sea has less- life in it than any other great body of water. The lower depths are saturated with poisonous gas, so that no fish can live in them. The world has about 21,000,000 acres of vineyards, of which fully 19,000,000 awes are in Europe. Less than 4 per cent of Great Britain is woodland, while Russia has 42 per cent of wooded area. Canon Bell, who has been rector of Alderley (Cheshire) since 1870, and is over eighty years of age, has resigned. Eight hundred and ninety French umbrella manufacturers turii out over 8,000,0(10 umbrellas yearlv. Their average wholesale price'is 3s'4d apiece. ttuni.l land sold by auction recently at YVaipukurau (Hawko's Bay) in small sections of fqur to six ' acres brought up to £sl 10s per acre. According to a correspondent of the liawera .Star, the manager of the new cheese f ,c(oi-y at Kapoiiga intends 1o lay down a tenuis court, in front of the factory and generally beautify the surroundings, 'this is a very hopeful sign, too often the surroundings of our factories are anything but an object lesson to suppliers.