GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2545, 20 February 1923, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Cast-iron camion balls, which, after being 291 years in the sea, fell to pieces red hot when exposed to the air, are described in one of the manuscripts acquired by the Association of Manufacturers of Non-corrodible and Anti-corrosive Products. These cannon balls were raised from the wreck of the Mary Rose sunk off Portsmouth in 1545, and were recovered 291 years after. Similar eases are on record, showing that rust is a form of combustion. Reginald Downing Hunter, a shipping provision merchant, of Swansea, and company director, was sentenced at Swansea to one month’s imprisonment and fined one hundred pounds, or a further three months, for having cocaine in iiis possession. It was stated that the police found ten bottles in his office safe. Hunter explained that the cocaine was given him by a sea captain to take care of, but the captain did not return. The Bench ordered the confiscation of the cocaine. Interesting sidelights were thrown on the business of a well-known firm of London caterers in a lecture upon the distribution organisation of the firm given by Mr W. H. Gaunt before the Institutiion of Transport. At Cadby Hall the bakery, said Mr Gaunt, can produce 10,000 loaves per hour. The bread distribution is made by 150 house--to-house bread vans, supplemented by many four-ton vehicles which carry the bread to four main distribution centres in Greater London. Count Zborowski annexed six records at Brooklands, and achieved the unprecedented speed of nearly ■ll6 miles an hour. He thus established a world’s record for any class or any size of ear by covering 10 miles in 5 minutes 11.49 sees. He covered the haif-mile at 120.40 miles per hour —a record for this distance. The count also gained the kilometre, the mile, the two miles, and the five miles records, a notable performance for a private owner on his own car, an eight-cylinder machine.

Miss Bn leer, a belated passenger from Doncaster, pluckily got on the : Cnnard liner Aquilania at a time and place when many would have given up hope. She missed the boattrain at Waterloo, so had to go to Southampton by an ordinary train. When she got to the docks the lAquitania had commenced its voyage. But seeing that Miss Baker was equal to the emergency, the company officials put her on board a tug, Which hurried after the Aquitania. Miss Baker then climbied the pilot’s ladder and her luggage was hauled up. with ropes. ; Nottingham magistrates have decided that a person boarding an overcrowded tramcar who alights from it within a reasonable distance and as soon as possible is not liable for the fare. Mr Addison, solicitor, was summonsed for re-