NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15234, 22 February 1913, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

'■<>■■ - * J>The revenue' of Toronto' in 1913. is -est!- -' mated at £1,643,832. ■•'■■■"'- ' -../''.''. The penalty for a lady wearing a larg* ■" hat in a. theatre at Athens is £8. .-* ' v ' lr?. Sydney University (N'.S.W.) proposes :t» 5* establish a Chair of Imperial History. The. expenditure on new buildings ill , Montreal during 1912 totalled £5,366,290. A man aged 103 has died at Oosterhout, > Holland, and a woman aged 103 at Groniri* i gen, Holland. The loss on the Deptford Foreign, Cattle ■- Market during last year was estimated at close/on £25,000. . : The year's crop of f rice in Japan, iffi-.-stead of being a record-breaking one, is below the average. • - . '-■ -ii >' .Pianos were sold at Is lid each at/an / auction in New York, and 55 were disposed of at that price. T /-' The London Hospital has treated 76,200 r in-patients and 1,166,222 out-patients dur- : ing the last, five years. ■ . .'■'■:• -' '.. - - -'-■-; The Ministry of Commerce^'Rome, state* : i; ; j that during the last 52 years £9,250,000,000 I has been dost ingambluig by Italiajas. ; The " soup..; ship": moored in l the river ' ' I neat Bordeaux; France, provides soap- free ■;<■' f as the result of a bequest of a millkmairo.; The mining town of Frank, in Alberta, I which is threatened with destruction by a > landslide, being moved to a safer, site. _;, Over 1,500,000 litres -"ofr.land■; in NewSouth Wales • werw- made available for '// settlement in ; -- : the 12 months ended ■ June S 30. ■ ; China has issued two sets of 'stamps, ./ bearing the heads of Yuan Shi-kai, Presi- ' dent of the Republic, and of Dr. Sun Yatn / sen. .■:- , Flocks of swans were seen flying across France from east to s west during Christmas, a.. thing quite unprecedented ;in winter.'. '"'..- ■ \. , Daily walks on the promenade are still enjoyed by Mrs.:'"Ann Lacy, of Ramsgate, - who has just celebrated • her '■ 100 th ; birth-. -; day. - * -.'/ Swiss : prisons : * were.; bo .-; overcrowded ,: at : :' / Christmas';. that? in three cantons -/convicts M; have had to be lodged in the "cellars of the -/• town halls..::• -■•/;_ 1 A special " recollection service" for Australasians spending ' Christmas in London/" '■■ was held-' at : the city church of St. Dun- / atan Eastch^ap. .. . The Union-Castle liner Balmoral Castle, - which recently arrived at' Southampton ■■.■ from the Capo, brought specis; to the" value of £1,115,558. ? - . . . Penny Tpostaga will shortly be established between France and her colonies and - towns in China '.where there is a French/ postal bureau. Motor coal trucks with elevating bodies V rand delivery chutes have been built for » '" ' Winnipeg company to; deliver coal at cue-"/, tomers' houses.. ' ""ja^i-ij By way of- experiment a' professor, aS 4 the Pavia Observatory sent up a balloon'-.'*: which reached » height of 125,000 ft," constituting a record; " "*•$!&? .Vienna newspapers assert thai 42.Biua-""^; I sj)ice, belonging to three large espibn*/,/; [ age organisations, are m: prison at,Lem[berg (Austrian Poland). : ' ' ' /sss& One of the largest Nonconformist cr&peis.:, ; : in Bangor, Wales, has been.converted, into ; a theatre, while another, at I?enmaeiiiinai(?C 'i> . is' used as a picture palace*. <■:•■■ " - i^-^ • - Alii," " • I 1 -l a¥ss Although she can only use one; hand, » ; Brentwood girl has been awarded the ope-. / cial; silver medal of .the London Academy^'/";/ of Music for piano iihyinET. . I £ l s|£|tf •, _ Th^ro,' r are'..about -121b, of .; body of an average grown-up't person, to, ' 24. hours the heart doe.* an amount of, work equal to 130-foot "ton?. '.^WMI" «,»■>-■ -i ■ , '^©#S?. Beh'eved to be one of the Oldest sailing ships-on th'e'Britiah register, fa j Bee has'; been in the service of ah Tale of W/ghfe . I.firm'of carriers for. 108 years.. ; - ." Prehistoric human- footprints have been V/ discovered in slabs, of isandstorw in; a .-:-' quarry at Warrnambvol,. Aus*i.aJia» Their age is-*stimated/at .%,OCO years. '- The ; production of;.; oyer ;'£45,«XM300// worth of wool arid , meat ;per./;annma. in •/ ample evidence of the : fattorting"propertieij ■.•'.:. of the' valuable grasses of Australia. ;/t';.V:;. ; . Onring to . difficulty -in obtuning. ship-'. wrights at Chatham Dockyard -the .Ad-'". ■ miralty have sanctioned the re-'emplbymeht*' ; v of; men;wh? \were pensioned• on/ reacbijix 60, ,; 'jl .-•■;' " '■/ ■;< ■ ■ ;■; '.:- : : r,-\: .;#^r ~ Last-year,-Leap Year; the marriage rate % of America showed a decided increase; ./In, ;■ New York there were 2162 more i ioa'rriafes '■■■'.' than in .the previous year; and- in; Chicago 13374. - . ' . - , : An offer of £68 for an old 1 oak JteiKsiwriJ and oak panelling.found in some old cbt->J tages -on-, the corporation farm. hl»s beera "i accented 'by Guildford : (England Tontij! council. , :-: : :'; : - ■■'•' v _ . /-'-rmm Tlie receipts at Paris theatres increased from £1,760,000 in ' 1906't0 £2,320,000; in ■' 1 1911. and the tax on them for the iwejefit../. of the indigent rose from £155.840,^i& K «g £228,000. It is calculated that during.the;'Christ-'' : mas week? 2,250,000 parcels were dealt 'with V: at the General Post Office, London, ihe staff being^ increased from 1200 to 2900 to , 1 cope with' work. ."'; ' , ? " I a new tableau'at the London Was- -"//B works the King is shown sealed at & table 9 inspecting, the latest design of a Dread- | i<o!,ght;..with Mrl .Chcrchill ctandingV'by/;- | to answer questions. ; ' '.../;' | •." The Imperial gold pieces struck ai the i London- Mint /during': 1912 were : ; 36,54'^237 s ' •'-' | and the silver-pieces 48,789,723, '"&% - in- | crease compared with the-previous year of 1 394,026 and 4,854,264 i; v | ';'.' Insurance ' policies for; a' - year'a . salary;.'. I were presented to 350 employees of ■. a Newi.- •, § York electrical company, • the policies to be V paid.in the I event of the death ci the-eja-' , | ployeo during the year. . I After,one.year's trial of .-peniyi* postage' g in Australia, and to England, liv.^ndj/andu/.;;/1 Scotland, the' Australian postal revekm, : i in place of showing a decrease of £400,000, , '. i showed an increase of £21,0001 r | What is locally stated to bo a record in . .1 deer-stalking has been established by t\?o - | guests at the Ross-shire forest of Sir FUeh- ;' --1 nftih.J. McKenzie. -• During Christmas week '.they: accounted for 98 hinds. , : f .During excavatioii!) in' Holme Park, Son- - ning, fragments of a bishop's palace <:r .; manor house were unearthed. ~ Sonningiri , . the Saxon times and for several; sufaise- '■ /- quenfc centuries was the seat v* a >'i:ihopric ■; Notwitlistanding the wet, iseß«An ; which,. , '■'-. affecte<i the wholi of Europe ao' 1), as the, British Isles the number of' paissengsrs ; i in 1912 between the" varioas English ports and the^Continent < featiid re-V ■£ Xfid. ' '■■"-■■■ '*.'.-' '."""' Sualichi Shindo, who v.a« arrested, in ' 1 Pokio with five cats 'in his ;pocke|v: stated.;• g hat; since last August he l,ad dwwyiuL \M :ats from their homes by/'nie9.nc> , "'if:'^lfi > !--.;"|| leads, making a. good living, of -v ffl ho skins. ■ >, - ■■■-.- - ;^»4i .The centenary of the pjneake , M ; ;eh=> I >rtod with due solemnity ai.th*'-Do-lsr«»a Jagl* Cafe, ' in ' Vienna, where, '",- -.' ''■.-. It -I fear's Eve, 1813; Frad--KntharfV .*&■■ * solved the prototype of the sei^.?.van i confection. j;,/;,;! s/ i^r.^.V.^J The carnpaiVa for 'the abclitv Aof S.-.U- i lay trading m<i for a $- % ' E est, which is. being carried 011 -ia. v. irmaiiv '' § >y «he Commercial XiviSa ox ¥■: -- % '"in* 1 )loye?a-: artu J . other women's so .-,-. 'v*. -;.-i»ai. 1 low spread to Norway., ' ■ ' k v -'; "Vwll About th, S size of an ©range "and ahnosti: w of the bum p- m a, "nuchas foxa br^c^hfc, 1 into; '■Lo.w»to-ft ; ? 'vriiiik • Gi»a^ rgl which . <w~l<& -' '' . * - • '~~^' :; <iaU<}jser - lightship..' Thf. ' -■' (' •.. JM :-> & va/tomm thick,; stunted k . --. y»i W h b^otrai^^: burs, which .v «i-awi ; ta ; ,to jV, | the appearance: of heiag m V€^|P^l Its largo pincer elawa haw poinv*' very s"fmilar W double u-eifc^bo* L $jj fe § ricii jcaraune cok..; & ' . ';!.v^MH|fi 1 •. ; v .'; i: 4ife:.s£E\S