GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1993, 21 June 1919, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Atlantic City, New Jersey, is to have the world’s first “air port. ’ It covers IGO acres of land. J ransal]an tie aircraft voyagers will clear from this port, just as liners clear from the port of New York. Business men will travel in 50 minutes between the famous New Jersey seaside and their New York offices; and aerial tourists who just “drop in” will find hangars for their machines as motorists find garages. There will be, among other developments inter-college seaplane, landplane, and dirigible contests, a training school for aerial chiefs of police, Jiving coastguard and geodetic survey operations, and explorations of the upper air. When the German Army agreed by the armistice terms to hand over a certain number of guns, someone conceived the brilliant idea of unearthing the old howitzers and mortars which had been lying forgotten in the military storehouses for the past 30 years, and • including them in the list of batteries, to be surrendered to the British. The park at Nippes, where the German Northern Army deposited its. contribution, received over 400 of these ancient cannon, some of which date from the Franco-Prussian War, and cannot have been used since. They were promptly weeded out, and the German Government informed that modern guns must be sent to replace them. Up and down England there are hundreds of houses said to be haunted, or, as an advertiser in search of a haunted habitation discreetly phrased it: recently, “disturbed.” Many of these houses are known to those who specialise in such phenomena, and some of the ghosts have been found to bo capable of simple explanation, while others have baffled the most painstaking research. A London paper has now expressed a desire to hear of any premises alleged to be haunted by restless spirits, by strange sounds, and by unaccountable runs of persistent ill-luck, and invites owners to submit the property to investigation.