NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2626, 30 August 1923, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

The arrangement whereby owners of motors in the diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswiteh have placed their par occasionally at the disposal of the bishop has been in operation for a year. During that period 97 applications were made to owners on the list. Seventy-four journeys were arranged and 47 different owners lent their cars. Three owners drove the bishop four times during the year, five three times, eight twice, and the remainder once each. The Rev. Dr. Albert A. David who was appointed bishop in 192.1, was headmaster of Rugby, where he on one occasion created a stir by abolishing the wearing of Sunday silk “toppers” by schoolboys. How to cure smoky chimneys is being taught at a school for stokers. A Bradford engineer, Mr W. H. Casmey, has discovered the secret of reducing smoke in furnaces to almost nothing if certain rules are observed. A little while ago he gave a demonstration at a big factory in Wakefield, showing what can be done to eliminate smoke by the intelligent handling of boiler fires, and (he Wakefield Health Committee have now asked him to hold classes for stokers, which are being attended by nearly a hundred students. Mr Casmey says the consumption of coal can be cut down ton per cent, by following his method, and the worst chimney in the world can be cured for less than a five-pound note.

A dog' whirl) dragged a baity from beneath the wheels of a motor ear has paid for its heroism with its life. The animal was “nurserymaid” to the six ehildren of Mr L. G. Brown, a Rurton-on-Trent window eleaner. Tt aeeompanied them everywhere and was partienlarly attaehed to the youngest, a boy of 18 months old. It guarded its charge with the rare of a human being. The child owes his life to the watchfulness of his canine nurse. He was crossing a street when a motor car swept round the corner. The dog saw the danger. It leapt forward, gripped the child’s clothes in its teeth, and dragged him to safety. The car passed over the dog’s tail. Spinal trouble followed and the dog died in agony two days later. Its last effort was to attempt to lick the child whose life it had saved.

llow a fifteen-weeks-old child was found strangled in its cot at the children’s infirmary (Norwood) of the Lambeth Board of Guardians, was told at the inquest. The child, son of AD’S Thallon, of Pallace Buildings, Whitgift Street, was admitted, suffering from chicken-pox. He was wrapped in a blanket and placed in a cot in the observation ward. On the nurse’s return after a quarter of an hour, she found the baby had wriggled out of the blanket. Its head was wedged ill the 4Jin. space between the rails and the framework of the cot, with its body outside. The sister in charge had to knock away the iron support with a heavy piece of iron before the child could be released. He died before the doctor came. Death from misadventure was the verdict.

Much money was spent some years ago in America in attempts to produce tea but the climate and soil were not suitable to the growth of the tea plant, and eventually the trial was abandoned. A year ago the Bureau of Chemistry obtained a grant of a thousand pounds from the Government, and set to work to see whether a shrub known as the cassina could be turned to account. Already a good and refreshing beverage has been obtained from the dried leaves of this wild and hitherto useless plant. The new tea, which is called cassina, after the shrub is made in the usual way, but has the advantage of containing less eaU'ein and far less tannin, the tannin being the constituent of ordinary tea which is harmful when it is drunk in excess. The cassina shrub grows in abundance along the South Atlantic coast.