NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1036, 7 December 1912, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

There was recently exhibited in Philadelphia the invention of Dr. Isadore Kitsee, an invention which is a very creditable attempt to produce talking moving pictures. Dr. Kitsee first attacked the problem in rgos. Just how Dr. Kitsee has succeeded In synchronising a phonograph with a film we are not as yet able to reveal.

Faster Island, lying 2000 miles west of the South American coast, in the South Pacific Ocean, has been, ever since its discovery by Europeans, a most interesting archaeological puzzle on account of its colossal stone statues, ruined stone houses, and other remains of an unknown race. Petermauus Mitteilungeu reports that a fresh attempt to solve the mystery of these remains has been undertaken by an English sportsman, W. Scoresby Routledge, who is proceeding to the island on a motor yacht, accompanied by a geologist and an archaeologist from the British Museum,

Solution of the puzzle created by accidental intermixture ot type copied from a printer’s proof that came into my hands, says Sir Henry Eucy, was work for an infant in arms compared with another communication to me by an able editor, v/ho found on a proof sheet of intelligence from Sydney and New Zealand the following two items, composing separate paragraphs. They are here printed in the form of linage, in which they were originally typed ;—“The volcano Tongariro (sic), in the Province of Sydney, is uov finished, and has been handed over to the Government authorities.” “The Macquarie lighthouse at South Head, Auckland, New Zealand, is at present in a state of eruption more violent than at any period during the past thirteen years.”