NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11986, 7 June 1902, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Newcastle is about to pave its main thorv oiighfares with wood at a cost of £70,000. . Open-air concerts are to Ik? given in tie courts and alleys of Birmingham this summer. . : <> s English is studied by 95 per cent, of tins students ending the higher .-■■•Lou - in Egypt.. ; . ;h Two hundred pianos are to be distributee! among various Board schools in London during the next twelve months. Practically all the town.*, villages, ami plantation!! in Western Guatemala were destroyed in the recent earthquake. .: An order for 400.000 fairy lamps for Coronation illuminations in London has just) been received by a Birmingham firm. Another contribution of £10.000 is stated to he at the command of the promoters of the proposed bishopric of Birmingham. Great Britain and Ireland import about 265.000,00011) of cheese each year. Canada supplies about 60 per cent, of tire whole. Extra pay at the rate ot half a crown a ; day has been allotted to the Brussels police for their services during the recent riots. ■ M. Trepoff, the chief of tho Moscow police, whose life has been twite attempted lately, ' has applied for permission to resign his post. ' , : >.:„:; Eighteen miles is the record distance for ; .-'"■ a. man's voice, to I* heard without artificial ',; aid. This was in the (hand Canyon of the Colorado. ' . -. V,'j In all parts of the Orange River Colony ' , • the Dutch are entering with great spirit" into the arrangements fori the Coronation -i celebrations. Italy's latest armoured cruser. Francesco Perriiccio, was launched lately at Venice. she will carry thirty-four guns and steam twenty knots." " -■.-,,. -. Moscow has the largest hospital in the l world. There are 7000 beds, 96 physicians, ami 900 nurses. AUitit 15,000 patients are • ♦ treated annually. •. \ '■"."• "A wandering foreigner" is- Low an Irish newspaper describes) a Scotchman who was ' . charged the other day with loitering in the. streets of .Dublin. -. ■ ,;'- " Automobiles have certainly come to stay,. ami London ought} to welcome them," de- v clared Lord Kelvin at a dinner given in his . honour at Washington. , :\ During the year ending September 30 bs{," 5968 licensed brewers in. England produced' 37,217.880 barrels of* beer, on which £14,052,843 duty was paid.. > . The average schoolboy Irises 275 whole school days duviug the years of his educa-, ■ ■ tiou by the clumsiness of our present sy.-- " tern of weights and measures. . • •■*,.'::; The Empress Dowager of China is credited t) with having developed quite a craze for Vr''? foreign ways, particularly in the direction of social functions ami amusements, . ■ 3 The United States boasts of the world's; 'i record of having grown 5200 million pounds' :' I '.:, worth of com, and 2200 millions worth of wheat, during the nineteenth century. J ; ' lately a middle-aged man was Admitted.'to ■' tie Lambeth Workhouse who. ; upon -being 'V searched, was found to have a bank-book'in his pocket showing a balance of £1000. Where the proportion of water in a sample of butler exceeds 16 per cent., the butter is not, genuine, states a regulation Which has , • been issued by the Board of Agriculture. *' • ' The Bishop of Norwich, speaking at his Diocesan. Conference, said that a bishop must be "as wise as a serpent, as sharp-'-. .'■■(' eyed as a lynx, and as patient as an ass." - Organised with a capital of £5.000,000 . the White Mountain Paper-Company is to * build the largest pulp plant in the world and will eottipete with the American Paper Trust, The .Admiralty's; wireless telegraphy Bta- J Hon Uiear Shakespere Cliff, Dover, is now -- - ~* | being "regularly "used for communicating with ! the naval authorities, at. Chatham and Sheerness. '.; ,'*.'; .-'" r f ..-'.:,'„-,:'-v : ;_;; ■-..■-■*'(?■:; .-v--V i%n,y public bodies' in ißbodefda have* passed resolutions in favour of the appoint- ■'■'•* ;■■:?' ment of Dr. .Jameson, as Mr. Rhodes' successor on the Board of the Chartered Company. ■■■;■■ ■-■ '•-'..' • y ' J The world now consumes 6,300,0001b of -)? tobacco yearly, or 2,812,600't0n5.-'- This is "{-. worth 52 millions sterling. In other words, the world's smoke bill is just a million, a - week., r-'. ■..- ,',• '~..,-. ■'■~-.- ' ~ .*:', V. The increase of cancer is largely due to luxurious living rendered, possible ;by the increased income of the working classes, ' states Dr. Mackenzie, medical officer for -0 Normanton, Yorkshire. ■' - :' ' ' ~'<\ j The Kaiser has gladly accepted the trust ' ' under Mr. Rhodes' will according to which ' the fifteen German students who are tore- ••■.'■. .'■■'. ceive scholarships at Oxford are to be nomi- i ; nated by His Majesty, , ■ ~» , - -: Only 164 persons in 1000 have- right and I left arms of equal strength. \ In 469 out of 1000 women the right arm is stronger than ' s the left. In men 590 out of 1000 have the ■>' '/' right arm the more powerful; - - ' Mr. Ross'.' a civilian, has Liken the place \ ' ■'- of the late Captain Chirues.as (he secretary of the Remounts Inquiry. The Court will : ' sit four days a. week, and there is a great ' deal of evidence yet to l»e taken. The King and the Queen, with their own' hands, placed in position several of the young saplings planted recently in. the grounds of Buckingham Palace to replace the old elms which had become a source of danger. . The Duke of Norfolk has forwarded a subscription to a fund which is being raised amongst the Roman Catholics of England "\ for the present at ion of a tiara of gold to j the Pope, on the occasion of his jubilee. j An .enormous quantity of water is pumped, ' | constantly from the famous Butte copper; mines. This water, contains no less than" ~'; J £800,000 worth of dissolved copper, which is extracted from it by a. chemical process. ; ;: Since last May 120.000 horses and'mules have been shipped from the British remount " -i camp at Lathrop, Missouri. Ten British officers and 200 men are employed at the < ; ramp, which has cost the Government £200,000 in land and improvements. , British Roman Catholics have been granted a.special Coronation; dispensation by the Pope. They are to be released from abstinence on Friday. June 27. and from fasting and abstinence on the day following, which - is the vigil of SS. Peter and Paul. At noon on April 18 a .wireless message was received at Queenstown reporting the Lucania -to be twenty miles west of the Fastuet. At the time of telegraphing the Cunarder was separated from Queenslowu l ' by a distance of seventy miles. \ Professor H. C. Seeley provided a mild .-- sensation at the Orst sessional lecture of lie Zoological .Society lately. fie exhibited some lantern slides of the extinct specie* <>i flying reptiles, fearsome beasts which bred in England before the dawn of man. The union of the late Mr. West, a churchman, to an American widow, who was an Episcopalian, by a Lutheran pastor in the Roman Catholic country of Argentina, challenged 'by West's co-heirs to property in ', England, has been declared legal and valid. The. Bishop of My is taking" steps to " vacate" the living of Cowlmge, Suffolk, nowheld by the the. Rev. A. O. Sweet, recently ' "' separated from his wife by magisterial order . on the ground of his cruelty. The incumbent disputes > the bishop's right of action under the Clergy Discipline Act. Paderewski is> at work ou another opera, which will deal with Polish life under the ' kings before the partition Frederick the .'''-. Great and the Russian Government. The music has nearly all been written, and the piajiist-conxposer is now searching the archives of Polish authors for a suitable libretto.'. - \ -•■■'''■_ • t Ozone is what chemists call ah;aUotropra : ; form of oxygen— is to say, it is oxygen in a, highly active and concentrated condi- V v tion. Inordinary pure air (says Health) cwone exists, but only in what chemists eall "traces." Larger amounts are found in sea and mountain air. It instantly dis- .:; appears when ; brought in contact with de- r caving matter, dissipating itself, as in the act of oxodising that matter., /\T^ . y \ -- t