NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2379, 14 January 1922, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Fishing smacks on the East Coast of Scotland are, in many instances, being hauled up, turned turtle, and converted into dwellings. This is due to the slump in the fishing industry.

Round the world in 408 hours, at a cost of £OBO. will soon be possible by connecting up different aerial routes. The usual time for the trip by land and water is reckoned at sixty days.

Aroused by the suffering of homeless Jews in the fymine districts of Eastern Europe, 200 prominent Jews from various parts of the United States, recently decided to raise £3,000,000 for emergency relief work.

Newcomen, the Dartmouth blacksmith who developed the cylinder-and-pislon steam engine, has had a memorial erected to his memory, in the town of his birth. His first engine was set up near Dudley Castle, in 1712, and he knew no rival until Watt appeared. The world’s most valuable stamp collection, that oi' the late Duke Ferrari de la Jienotiere, was finally dispersed by auction sale in Paris. The sales were close on one million francs (nominally £40,000), while the total receipts oi' the sale are stated to be close on eight million francs (£320,000).

A Business Talk with Business Men.—-“ There is a vast difference between wishing and winning. Many a good man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone ought to have been.” Are you wishing for more business, but lack the winning? Advertising is a sure enough winner, but it needs backbone in the man directing it. Advertising doesn’t bring results with a jerk. The beginning is slight, but the pressure is constant, and increasing all the time. The open season for hunting business lasts all the year round, but just now the game is particularly well worth going after. The best ammunition is an anvertisement in “The Manawatu Herald.”*