NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2385, 28 January 1922, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

In Cyrene, the ancient Greek colony in Africa, has been found on a block of marble the translation of a letter from Augustus on the government and the administration of justice; this will form a basic source for a history of his reign. “Treat it with Respect,” is how the United States Department of Agriculture warns farmers, to whom it is giving 12,500,000 pounds of salvaged war explosives for land clearing. This material is designated as “comparatively safe.”

A contract has been made for delivery of mails by seaplane between Seattle and Vancouver, 8.C., with not more than ten round trips a. month, to connect with incoming and outgoing steamers. 'The compensation is tixed at £4O a round trip. America;) Indians under the Government control were allowed £112,000 in the first six months of 1921 for farm improvements, including *l5O new houses and (18 barns. Modern bathtubs, player-pianos and electric lights are to lie found among these Indians.

At the Chicago Pageant of Progress the eleven-passenger hydroplane Santa Maria carried an operator pjid a suitcase projector, to beguile (edium of Hying with motion ty'hile hydroplane and audience were hurtling through the air at 80 miles an hour. The famous rock of the Lorelei, on the Rhipe, the reputed home of the Siren, has purchased by an athletic club, with (the objoyt of safeguarding it from disfigurement ajid front, usages out of keeping with its historic s.urroundings. The rock is distinguished fry # remarkable echo.