News in Brief.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume xxii, Issue 6458, 30 December 1904, Page 2

News in Brief.

Thera 'vere 567 strikes in Franco las* 1 year.

Light rays travel at the rate of 180,000 miles a second.

London and Liverpool ara both at the level of the sea.

The Victorian Cross has been awarded for 520 acts of bravery.

More than five billion pounds of grapes were made into wine in Spain last year.

La3t year, according to the coroner's returns, there were 30 deaths due to starvation in London. Electric tratuoar drivers are petitioning the London County Counoil to be allowed to smoke while oa duty. No male subject in Austria is allowed to go out of the country without tho express permission of his wife. A Bohemian country labourer named Wuvzebesen hung himself on being presented with twins by his wife. A firm of coal merchants at Yarmouth is sending out free samples of coal in wooden boxes byway of advertising its quality. Smoking in .the streets has now been prohibited by the Municipal Council in Wsetin, in Moravia, under pain of a heavy fine. The " New Zealand Times " says that the New Zealand Farmers' Union has paid out about .£IO,OOO in milk cheques this month. Nearly half the money was distributed ijj the district of Eketahuna With this issue we distribute for Mr R. Y. Ferguson, land and est»te agent, a circular tp the " Homeless and Landless," which should ptove very interesting to the young men of the County