NEWS IN BRIEF.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 94, 9 April 1908, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

0 In a mill' of railway there are abuut 2,112 deepens. Fast lil'U rise at I,JUUft. a minute, or twenty miles an hum-. Tlie African pigmies hardly ever exceed 'JUIb. in weight. Alwut one in twenty of bindon'.s inhabitauts lives ott charity. The envelope was invented bv V. Ue Valiver about 1653. I'p to the present 2fS Iniriit-oiu -ettlers in the Wellington land district have been furnished by the Stale with grass seed, of a total value of X.\\'Jm. The rolling stock for tlie through trains on the .Main Trunk Line is being made at Wellington and Auckland. Sleeping accommodation is to be provided. The Codlcy statue in (Jhristchurch is to be shifted to the Cathedral ground.. The electrical supply system of Christ - church is to be extended and improved at a cost of J115,5U1J. A young native woman met with a horrible death on the banks of a river surrounding Hyderabad city. due of the elephants feeding near suddenly seized her, tore her to piece.- with fool and trunk, and flung her shapeless body over its head.

In one of the London law courts the other it wa- .stated tint the testator had left, £,-, i) a year io a lady on condiU"ii that- she Ihed within .1 mile „l' a '■luii'ch Iniili by him, and ~ rlaincd the minister at dinner on Sundaes. The conditions were not fullillml. and cousei|lleii||y Ihe legacy lapsed. By means of a typewriter that employs abbreviated Hrailc. a student 01 tie- Normal College for the Blind at Lambeth I London).is a prolieieut typist ami shorthand writer. Besides writing I'ltiiian. she can manipulate, the iitachiu'c at ihe rate of IUO word- a minute.

Hi,- painting „( lOdintmd Bnrk,. hung in the Examination Hall of Trinity Coi-l-ge. Dublin, i- declared 10 be a 'genuine lloppller. DnritH; i'<»i the birth-rate in Emdan.aii'l Wale. „»,s . A -, ;i ~„,. umtKu,;,. „, "■* per thou-sand oelow the rate to, l:,, M*-. I'"-- is lower itian any oim-i year's known record, lie.ng 2.1 below the average rate for the preceding ten years.

The Waldeek Hoii-seau. France's lir.-t Dreadnought, will carry a crew of 7UB. Is-sides 31 ollicci-s, be armed with 3(i gun-, and be ready for commissioning ill lull). Her c»,l will exceed £1,230,Woods' Creat Peppermint Cure lor Coughs and colds never fails. Is Cd and lid to 4s lid.—Advt.