NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2495, 19 October 1922, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Jhe suaientation fund committee of the Baptist Union icported ar the conference in Dunedin l-a.ing adopted the following scales: —Married ministers, £250: married home missionaries, £23(J; -ingle niini-t.-is and home missionaries. £’UJO. Additional grams were agreed to of £6 for e.-uh child up to three. A suggestion was made i.y a resident of r lii Toko, iti the Bay of Pientv. in a letter to the council of the Aui l.land Acclimatisation Society, tliat black bass -hotild be introduced into New Zealand "..lets. The council decided to write to Professor Prince, who is in charge of the Canadian fisheries, for information i om-.-i ning bass. A sensation was caused at Christchurch between 1 p.rn. and 2 p.in. on Friday by a young woman who (relates the Press) walked along the western bank of .the Avon between Gloucester street and Hereford street bridges and threw herself into the water. Several passers-by went to the help of the young woman- who seemed to be in an epileptic fit. She struggled violently, but was finally placed in an ambulance and taken to a hospital. Her name is Millie Ryan and she is 21 years of age. She was reported missing from 56 Carlton Mill road at 5.30 p.rn. on Thursday. President Harding, in the coins'' of a letter to the Republican leader of Reunited States House of Representatives, commenting on the new tariff stales: "The last, thing in our thoughts is aloofness from the rest of the world. We wish to lie helpful, neighbourly and useful and to ti.-c our strength for the general welfare of mini kind." The Radio Corporation of America lias announced a new step in the development of radio telephone communication. Mes sages between the United Slates and England were successfully sent by electron tubes, which replaced the bulky apparatus and alternators regularly used. While the latter filled the big radio bouse, tin* nine tubes which supplanted them could be stored in a trunk. Mr G. .1. Black. Gisborne, "ho has been on a brief visit to Queensland, states that severe drought conditions prevail throughout portions of Queensland, and, in fact, some districts have not experienced any rain for over 12 months. Not a blade of grass is to be seen, and the stock, some of which look fairly well under the circumstances, are to be seen nibbling away at the dry tufts that remain. Lucerne has been grown with much success in some of the coastal districts, but in the drought area it has been completely destroyed by the protracted dry weather.