NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Harvard graduate who refused to perform military service was sentenced to life imprisonment by a court-martial - at Camp Grant, Rockford, 111., I.S.A. The President commuted the sentence to lb vears.
A. motor-boat, the “Northern Messenger,*- ’ to replace the one wrecked last year, has been built to serve the settlements along the Labrador coast, by taking to them physicians from one of the Grenfell hospitals. Drop by drop- watering has been proved far more beneficial to plants than water given all at once, A strip of linen or cotton cloth is laid on the ground near the plant, the other end being placed in a..,jar of water.
Laboralory experiments with a laud target riddled hy bullets have produced a surface >n closely resembling the moon’s as lo revive (!ie old theory that Ihe moon’s “volcanoes ' were caused hy (lie impact of meteors.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1907, 26 November 1918, Page 4
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145NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1907, 26 November 1918, Page 4
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