NEWS BY MAIL

Hokitika Guardian, 31 May 1924, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL

WHEN YENISEI.US .DANCED. I.ONIHiN, .Marelt 20.

How ”.M. Ve:iiM.l <s p;:i hi; arm i,.and my shoulders, and we danced together down Constantine's reception in, in to the door'' is one ol the entertaining incidents described in Mr A. ('. Wralislaw’s plea-Fnt and iniorinalivc book "A t'on-ul in the East”. ’I In- occasion ol .M. Vciii.-olos's |o\ was lint.lie' recognition of his I’lo- \ i.-iouai Government til Salonica where Mr Vraitslaw wa- then lun-stii--during the war.

In Riilgaiia a new chief ol police "of an exceptiuuallv mild disposition" told .Mr Wraitslaw that lie felt quite mil of sympathy with the "erud ■ police tael hod-” of tbe StaiobuioJ regime. ilis own m.'llioil he said was to Iced a ciilmil exclusively on -all lisli for 21 hours or more ami give him nothing whatever to drink meanwhile. lie Han bad a jug of water and a tumbler placed prominently oil Hie table in his office and seni lor tile prisoner. Tt wa- rare, be assured me, lor such a one to refuse In make a clean breast of it as the price of a drink. In the bedrooms in Bulgarian inns a prime I set of rul "s was displayed I'm tiio guidance of visitors. Two of them conic back as I write: "Guc-ts aie forbidden to go to bed in their bools." and "Gne-ts should refrain from spitting on the walls."

SI I'.Fl'Y TOWN OF9AI I'F.OI’I.E. lON DON. March 29. There is a modern “Sleepy Hollow” a real lowa, in the Rirlish Isles; it is the anc'oiit I Hough (if .Montgomery, in Norili Wales, des-rilicd hy one ol the guide-honks a- “a pleasant. sleepy town, many e" 9 '-mutants are ner-mis of moderate means who prefer I Ilf e-iut’-od' of life without the i.u-lle of I- •- -■ ell ics." According to the een-us just published. it is a town where there is no housing problem, no overcrowding, and actually unoccupied houses. In a century the napulation has decreased at the. rite of one a year, and to-day tin* residents total 9AI.

They are made tip-of 217 families living in 2 111 houses, with 1 .HA I roams—a room and a-haif for every mail, woman. or child. There were 12 unoccupied houses wlit'ii the census was made. One hundred years ago there were 1.1!92 re-ideiiees. split up into 2!;> families ol cittiying 221 houses.

The people of Montgomery have a free supplv of water for dome- tie purposes ami a bawling green is maintained for their ivereni ion. The corporation is one of the smallest in the country. consisting of a mayor, two aidermen. and live councillors— a total of rigid, with seven officials to do their bidding.

BIGGEST RAILWAY ENGINE. LONDON. March 22

Railway enthusiasts will (iml two supreme joys in the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley when it opens next month. Side by side will stand one ol the smallest engines that ever pulled a train nod tin- biggest yet built in ibis

country. They are to be exhibited by their owner', the l.ondon and North-Eastern Railuav Company. One is Stephenson's engine. “I.'ieoniotion" No 1.

which drew the first train at the opening of tio> first pas-enger railway in the world—Stockton and Darlington Railway—in IS2A. The other is the

‘ *K!y iisji .Scotsman.” “The little No 1 weighs about 12 tons and the ‘Flying Scotsman' about 141) tous.'S an official of the London and North-Hastepi Railway told a reporter yesterday. •‘The speed ol the first 12 miles an hour: the second could, if necessary, do lit) miles an hour. Its average speed on a long run is a mile a minute.

“To complete the ‘atmosphere’ ol the exhibit. Stephenson's engine will stand on the original thin iron rails embedded in the original stone sleeper used on the old Stockton and Darlington Railway.”

The baby engine which nearly a century ago went proudly puffing through the astonished countryside has been brought to Wembley in a truck all the way from Darlington Station, where it lias stood for many years. The “Flying Scotsman” was run into the grounds on its owners’ lines, which extend from Wembley Hill Station. It is olio of *l4 engines of its kind now running. PRINTING WITHOUT INK. SAN FRANCISCO, May 6. Admittedly the lajul of “tall” things” and wondrous inventions, New York lays claim to another extraordinary development in the world of .scientific endeavour, and an astonish-

ing invention, apparently a process for printing without ink. has been announced by Dr Arthur A. Humersehlag. president of the Research Corporation of New York. This corporation. established twelve years ago lij the Smithsonian Institution of Washington, has heroine a sort of connecting link between inventors, manufacturers, and the Government. Aftei alluding to innumerable proposal.' which arc old. usclsss or impracticabh Dr I lamerschlag continued: “Hill

every now and tlieif some startling, unexpected invention is discovered. In a single year we have uncovered a marvellous calculating machine that can compute algebraically; a printing machine that dispenses with type, electrotypes, and halftones, and instead of printing from a design which carries the ink, prints more rapidly and better from a pattern whch never comes in contact with the ink.” No details of this invention were

given, but evidently by it a newspaper can be printed without inking the stem plates. If it turns out to be a <ommereial success it may put an end to the conglomeration of colours known as the Sunday supplement, which George Cohan, an American humorist mice facetiously described as “a mattress of misinformation.” C2OO TO THRASH A .MAN. LONDON, .March 27. A remarkable offer has been received by a Gillingham, Kent, ex-naval officer who advertised in a London newspaper for work, “danger being no objection.”

Within a few hours of the appearance of the advertisement a well-dres-sed woman, who had travelled from London in a motor-car, called at his house. She said she would pay the oxnavn I officer C—oo if lie would accompany her to Italy and, in her presence thrash her brother-in-law with a horse whip.

She added that she wanted to.punish her brother-inlaw for not treating her sister as he ought to have done. Tin* terms of the offer made by the woman were that the ex-naval officer would receive L'loo on account, all his expenses, and the balance on completion of the task. He reieeted the offer.