NEWS IN BRIEF

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23115, 13 August 1938, Page 12 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF

A demand for votes for women lias been submitted to the Egyptian 1 arliament. Last year 281 elephants were killed in Kenya during control work,by tho Game Department, Ukuleles, so generally regarded as transatlantic in origin, really own lortugal as a birthplace. An exhibition of mushrooms has been opened in a Vienna museum to encourage increased consumption. London Bridge is the busiest •station in Britain. It has about.~4oo trains during each 24. hours. Three families in Pinnura, a village near Naples, total 55 children; this, it is believed, constituting a record. It is stated in well-informed official circles in Vienna that the Italian debt to Germany now amounts to about £15,000,000. • The total number of police constables in Britain is 49.429. Each has a beat covering, on an average, 611 acres with 054 inhabitants. Button-collecting is the hobby of Mrs. Wright, of New York State. In over 70 years, she has collected 14,882 specimens, all different. Work is shortly to begin on the construction of a big lake 5000 feet above sea level in the Abruzzi mountains in tho province of Acjuila, Italy. A hill throwing open to women all branches ol' the Government service in Norway, including appointments in the State Church, has become law. According to figures published by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics the birthrate for Canada fell from 29.4 per 1000 of population in 1921 to 20 per 1000 in. 193 G. On their way to work one morning recently 30 Polish peasants wero drowned in the River Bug at Orla, near Brest Litovsk when the bottom of their boat collapsed in .midstream. The number of storks born in Alsace decreased considerably last year, according to statistics just published at Mulhouse, the figure of 3GO being the lowest since the statistics have been taken. Plans are being made in Italy for 1800 landless peasant families to go to Libya in the autumn to take up reclamation work and eventually farm the land they have made fit for cultivation. A 15-year-old French boy was arrested for having signalled "J-Jullo, daddy!" in Morse on a motor-horn outside tho Santo Prison, in Paris, when; his father was confined. He was charged with having illegally communicated with a prisoner. The marriage of Donna Degna .Marconi, eldest daughter of the late Marchese Marconi, to Dr. Gabriele Paresci, press attache in the Italian Embassy in London, took place recently at Spoleto in the villa of the Marchese Marignoli di Montecorona. Three persons have died after eating mussels gathered from the maritime canal linking Zeebrugge with Bruges. Experts have discovered that the canal is in a poisonous condition throughout its length, but it is not known whether the poisoning is organic or chemical. "Ensign Day," a festival in honour of the national flag, has been celebrated for the first time in Argentina with much enthusiasm. The celebration will be held every year "to maintain loyalty to the national emblems and to counteract alien influences tending to impose themselves on Argentina." The Paris Court of Appeal recently npset the judgment of a lower Court which had held that editors of newspapers were entitled to open correspondence received at their offices for journalists in their employment. The Court awarded the appellant 5000 francs (about £29) as damages. The Belgian National Society of Professors of Art (of 310 Avenue de Tervueren, Woluwe St. Pierre. Brussels) for the third year in succession are holding an Art Week from August 4 to 12 during which explanatory tours for British visitors are arranged through the historic monuments and museums of the most famous towns in Belgium.