NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2527, 9 January 1923, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

A doctor lias been chatting about the evils arising from hasty breakfasts. fie says they invnrably lead to indigestion. “A patient of mine,” he says, “has ehronic indigeston of the most distressing kind with flushing* of the head, feelings of giddiness, loss of appette. indisposition for work, and a whole host of other symptoms. And why? All because, in order to arrive punctually at business he hastens through his breakfast and then hurries for his train. No stomach can stand such treatment. How many men do you think commit this mistake? In my experience at least 80 per cent, of all business and professional men. For the first few years they do not feel any ill eonetpiences. Then their stomachs become uneasy. In a year or two more the mischief is completed, and then they come to the doctor.” In an ne<|uurium it is a common tiling for some fish to pick up a pebble and swim about with it, and drop it and pick it up again, just as a dog would drop and pick up again and run about with a twill. Fish do the same thing with shells. There was lying on the bottom of a tank a little piece of sedge grass, maybe three or four inches in length, light, but stout enough to hold together though two small fish should tug at it. One little fish was seen to come along and grab up that scrap of sedge grass and make oft' with it, with another fish chasing after it to take it away. The second fish would snatch it away finally, to be followed by a third fish, which, in turn, would get it away from the second; and so the fish would keep it up, racing about the tank until all were tired. Komild Arthur Dal/.ell, 13th Earl of Caruwath, appeared under a receiving order, at a meeting of his creditors at the Bankruptcy Court in London recently. Liabilities were estimated at £1,200. A statement by the official receiver showed that. Lord Carnwath had no occupation before the war. lie became a lieutenant, K.N.V.A. (attached to the ILN. Air Service) until invalided out iu 1915, next year joined the Welsh Yeomanry and served in the forces until early in 1919, when he was again invalided out, and has since received a pension of £4O a year. For 15 months he was employed by a tobacco company at a

salary of £I,OOO a year, and was then again without occupation. The earl attributed his insolvency to lack of fixed employment and to heavy taxes deducted under a settlement, leaving little or no surplus after payment of prior charges. Lord Carnwath is 39 years old, and -uccceded his father, the twelfth earl 12 years ago.