NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2631, 11 September 1923, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Stamps to the value of £2,963,652 and postal notes to the value of £14,761 were printed at the Government Printing' Office during the year ended March 31 last. The Government has decided against building a museum at Luxor and Thebes for the Tutankhamen treasures. Instead of doing so they are adding a wing to the Cairo Museum at a cost of £28,000. A hairdresser in Balclutha (Otago) whose services were much in request for shaving male victims of the ’flu, confined to their beds, asked a local medico what best to do in order to avoid infection. “Well,” replied the medical man, “all you can do is to keep smoking, keep smoking.” And he did. There are no motor cars speeders in North Adams, Massachusetts. A policeman stands at the roadside with a red latern or flag. Speeders are hailed and cautioned to use discretion. If the driver fails to slow down the policeman blows his whistle and further down the road a board filled with short spikes is stretched across the highway. What is perhaps the greatest memorial in all the world is fast nearing completion—the Lincoln Highway across the United States. This highway has a minimum width of 60 feet. It reaches from New Yoi’k City on the east across the continent to Sail Francisco, on the west; and quite a crowd gathered in New York the other day as the engineers were erecting a signpost at one of the down town corners. The hand on the sign was pointing west and it read: “Lincoln Highway: To San Francisco 3,384 miles.” Truly a worthy memorial to the man whom the average American looks upon as the greatest man of his race. On relinquishing the position of organiser to the Reform Party; which he has held for a number of years, Mr Thomas Lisle was the recipient of a substantial token from Premier Massey as a recognition of his long and valuable work during the time he has fulfilled the position. At an executive meeting of the Wellington Political Reform League, also, a resolution was unanimously adopted expressing regret on the occasion of the retirement of Mr Lisle, who had been closely associated with the Reform Party for over a quarter of a century. Mr Lisle intends to temporarily retire from active participation in political work. The ghost-like appearance of a young lady in her night attire walking along the street is, to say the least, unusual. With eyes gazing ever upwards at a bright light in front, and with a steady determined tread, a white-clad figure startled one or two people who happened to he in the vicinity of the Savoy. Dunedin, about midnight on Tuesday, states the “Otago Daily Times.” The presence of two constables was reassuring, and the realisation that somnambulism explained the circumstances relieved the tension. The young lady walked on past the light into the darkness beyond, and when well out of the glaring rays of the light she seemed to recover her senses, and commenced to stagger. Then the policemen who had been following silently, moved up and supported the somnambulist, who was naturally bewildered at first. It appears that she had, in some inexplicable manner, arisen from her bed, taken her departure from the place where she resided, and found her way from street to street, eventually arriving at the Savoy. She was conveyed back to her residence, little the worse for her adventure, and those who had witnessed the remarkable happening were not sorry that the experience was at an end.