NEWS ITEMS.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13456, 29 June 1912, Page 2

NEWS ITEMS.

: iNelspn's flagship tlie,Victory, is MT years old. She was -launched at C/Hal-: Dockyard on May 7^ 1765. ~lfc is officially '-estimated' that, tlw? number of immigrants into Ganatla; this year will reach 400,000. A class in tree^-planting, in whicli ospert gardeners aro professors, has been inaugurated ■at Harvard Cnivereity. Dockyard hands to a total of SQ,WO ar© employed by the British Admiralty.. In Germany the telephone lines areowned and ' operated by the Govern- . ment. "" Trade of Newfoundland for the past fiscal year shows . an increase pa the preivious year of £250,000. „, Tom can keep cool and: fresh on th* hottest day -by drinking Marteß'* Brandy and Soda.