NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2249, 10 March 1921, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

There have been more limn a quarter of a. million residential and business change* in London during the past year, 30,000 more than any previous record, state the editors of Kelly’s Post Office Directory for 1021. The 122nd edition of “Kelly” has just been issued, and the three ponderous volumes represent an enormous amount of.labour. Yet, in spite of the difficulties of keeping up with a “general post’ game, involving millions of persons, (he date corresponds with that of previous publications. Trades now include such uncommon occupations as poeoa roasters, parchment dealers, tar paviors, goggle makers. The long list commences with makers of “abbatoir machinery." and finishes with zirconium manufacturers. For the first time since the war a

consignment of telescope fish lmarrived in England from the I'ar East, and a number are now in the aquarium at the zoo. Though these are merely one of the many extraordinary varieties of goldfish bred by the Japanese and Chinese, they are so unlike the household species that few people recognise them as goldfish. The telescope, in fact, is the sort of creature one would expect to see in a nightmare. With grotesque-protruding eyes (hence its name), globular body, two distinct tails, sail-like tins above and double fins below, it waddles through the water like a fat old fishwoman in the market. Compared with the tumbler, however, it is graceful, for the latter variety, ow-

ing to its curious form, is unable to maintain its equilibrium in the water. Another type, the Celestial, has its eyes on the top of its head, and, as these are always directed jjeavenwards, it is regarded by the Chinese as a sacred fish. Other aquatic bogies are the fringe tail, with an immense pendulous caudal (in of delicate texture, while the comet goldfish, some of. which have been bred in the gardens, have extremely long flowing tails and fins —hence their popular name, Some of the rarer specimens may be said to be literally goldfish, for they are worth their weight in gold.