TIT-BITS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 167, 1 July 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

TIT-BITS.

During the last year the Mormons transported 555 English girls to Salt Lake City and Utah.

No fewer than 827 rats were killed during the threshing of an average corn-rick in Berkshire. To prevent fraud a number of the London County Council tramcars are row fitted with coin-testers. » » " Written bv King Edward, when ten years old. to hi-, sister, the Prinoess Royal, a letter has recently been sold tor ... Tn the past three seasons Burnley have taken part in no less than thirteen English Cup contests, and shared in £10,590. ... According to the final provisonal Census returns, the population of India is r,ow 315 mill’ons, an increase of 20i millions ince 1901. * Bob Crompton, the famous full-back, now holds the record as an English International. having represented his countrv twenty-four times. • * • ♦ To make his set of certain stamps unique, a St. Petersburg collector recently paid £2.500 for five duplicate stamps, which he men burnt.

On an average th" expenses of tho Newcastle United < tub amount to £14.000 a year, despite which the maximum 5 per cent, dividend is invariably paid.

During last year nearly 170 tons of eggs wore collected from members of rhe Frami'mO’nm Acr'ciiltural Society, a sum of £13,000 being realised by tie ■>•

Under the Butter and Margarine Act of 1907, 1,831 “fancy names” for margarine, and 41 names for mixtures of totter and milk, have been approved bv tho Board of Agriculture.

To English bookmakers in Holland, according to an appeal against their expulsion £25.000 worth of stamps are sold a* Middelbnrg. £B,OOO at Fltfshing, and £1,2'0 at Goes.

Two millionaire golfers recently played a match on a London course for a stake of two motor-cars. Covering one mile in 2min. 42 2-fi see. at Olympa. A. R. Egbngton has created a world’s record for rollerskating. , Quite a number of women are taking to motor-cycling this season, and several London firms are making a (special machine for the fair sex. These machines start like an ordinary motorcar. so that the riders do not havo to gallop alongside before mounting. Nearlv 23.900 children have now been sent to Canada through the agency of the FJarnardo Homes. * Including all sections, the total number of youths under 20 years of age now serving in the Army is 41,233. Peter Hughes, an old-age pensioner, who was found dead in Belfast, had £250 in notes and gold sewn in the lining of his waistcoat. * By taking 1100 tons of coal on board at the rate of 22 tons per hour, the cruiser Achillas has constituted a record for the second cruiser squadron. ♦ • • * Tt is estimated that to meet the demand for the new King George post-age-stamp 1.000,000 stamps will have to be printed every hour of tho working dav throughout a whole year. • • • * Very few of the leading cricket counties enjoved financial prosperity last season : this, however, was not the case with Kent, for it has announced a profit of £736 on the year’s working.