GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2284, 2 June 1921, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The last six months have seen.the Wanganui river at the lowest it has evur been. The felling of bush has left the river dependent on springs for its source of supply, and even these seem to be drving up. Frquent users of the steamer service say that the improvement works being carried out are proving of great benefit. —Chronicle.

Presumably owing to the lire blight menace hawthorn hedges in the Wai mea West (Nelson) district are being cut down. At Maliana last week a long length of hawthorn v.as cut down to within a short distance of the ground level. It is proposed to cover (he stumps with branches, and burn them next autumn, in the hope that the lire will kill the growth. It has been definitely established by scientists (hat the hawthorn is a grave source of infection, and that the hedges themselves will be killed by fire blight.

Probably little alary Nessy, of Prague, in Czecho-Slovakia, is the most travelled baby in the world. She is just over two years old. She was born in the Ural Mountains, in Russia, her father being a captain in the Czocho-Slovakinn army there. With her mother she crossed Siberia and reached Vladivostok, on the Pacific coast. At the age of six months she sailed over to America. Then she crossed the American continent, and sailed over the Atlantic to Brest, in France; and from there has reached her father's native land in mountain-girdled Bohemia. Except for the trip across European Russia to the Ufa Is, little Mary Nessy has already been round the world by land and sea.