TWO-THREE LINERS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7917, 11 August 1917, Page 3 (Supplement)

TWO-THREE LINERS.

BRIGHT AND BRIEF FROM THE PAPERS. Grass is fetching £lO an acre in mid-Devon. * * * * Canada has 81,000,000 bushels of wheat available for export. Welsh miners are paying half a crown a pound for new potatoes. The Food Production Department's 372 officials cost £65,890 a year. # # * No more potatoes are to be issued to prisoners of wa* in England. * * * First arrival of Guernsey tomatoes in London have sold freely at 3s a lb. It is estimated that a million acres of cats will besown in Ireland this yeai. Nearly 95 per cent, of the 2000 vcikcrs ;:i Gloucestershire hospitals a:e g.ving their services free. * * * Visitors to the Zoological Society's Gardens last year numbered 1,084,249, the second largest number in its history. * * * Three Hunch ed Thousand! spare razors for the ust‘ of the Armv have been collected by the Cutlers’ Company. Mr. William Jennings Bryan, ex-Sec-retary for State has offered to enlist in the United States army as a private soldier. An undersized lad of fourteen was said, at an English Police Court recently. to be earning 36s a week a* Woolwich Arsenal. * * * The total number of male and female prisoners in local and convict prisons is a& compared with 16,727 on March 31st, 1914. * The Kaiser has given to the Holienzollern Museum at Berlin tilie golden pen .with which he signed £he mobilisation, order of July, 1914. * * * The whole congregation at a service at Beaconsfield (Eng.), consisted of four clergymen. At two other services the only person present was a woman.