NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1349, 19 January 1915, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

A French newspaper gives a very good test to determine the nationality of a man. Set before him a glass of beer with a fly in it. If he asks for a fresh glass he is an Englishman ; if he removes the fly and drinks the beer he is a Frenchman; it he drinks the beer, fly and all, he is a German. This information may be useful for spyhunters. Referring to the recent earthquakes in Poverty Bay, the Gisborne Times says : “The old saying, ‘The ways of Providence are inscrutable’ is born out at Whangararoa. The proprietor of the accommodation house lost his reservoir, but a little lower down towards the beach a uew spring <■ the purest water has sprung u K , and is forced about two feet above the ground. The ground is much torn and shattered for about two miles about the Cape.” In the New Zealand Gazette, Charlie Sven Waernberg, sometimes called Charlie Waernberg, formerly of Stockholm, but now of the city ot Auckland, seaman, gives notice that he has “ renounced and abandoned” the surname Sven and the surname Waernberg, and that he has assumed and adopted the surname “ Wilson,” to the end and interset that he shall hereafter be known by the name “ Charlie Wilson,” and by ao other name.