NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2636, 22 September 1923, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Master E. R. Hardy, who landed at Plymouth recently with his parents, Professor and Mrs Hardy, from Xew York, is only 14 years old hut has already graduated as Bachelor of Arts. He speaks fourteen languages. After a holiday in England he will pursue his studies for 12 months, prior to becoming a minister in the Episcopal Church of America.

An old man appeared in Highgate Police Court, hut pleaded that he could not hear the evidence against him. Four policemen bawled in Ins right ear. He only smiled. Four more policemen bellowed in his left ear. His smile continued. “The case is dismissed,” whispered the magistrate. tic heard that. While Worcestershire club and ground cricket team were motoring to Bromsgi-ove, their ear knocked down a hoy. The team were arranging for his removal to hospital when the clothes of Tarbox, the Worcestershire professional, burst into Humes, ignited by a spark from a passing steam lorry. Tarbox was uni hurt —in fact ho went on to the match and scored half a eenturv.

A business men's train to London was held up by a stray puppy at Boaeonsliold Station, Bucks. The animal jumped into the train and look up a position under one of the seats in a first-class compartment. Passengers objected to its presence but in spite of the efforts of the stalionmaster and two porters, several minutes elapsed before it was dragged out by means of a grappling iron. The train was four minutes late.

Confetti will he banned in future from all pleasure fairs at Burton-on-Trenl. This decision has been reached by Ibe town council owing i,, the statement that unscrupulous dealers shovel Die used confetti out of the gutter and resell it. Consumption and other disease, it ' s contended, are thus spread. An oignnised petition and protests from Labour members have failed to alter the council's opinion.

"Boys giiis who are now under fifteen years of age will use the air when they grow up just as their fathers and mothers now use the motor ear and train. The London Air Station by then will probably he the roof of one of the great railway stations." Major-General Sir \V. Sefton Braneker, Director of Civil Aviation, who drew this picture of the future at a transport conference at Sheffield, prophesied that air fares would soon he less than sixpence a mile.