NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2649, 23 October 1923, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Richard Edwards, of Pengam, in South Wales, is claimant to the millions left by Robert Edwards, who amassed a huge fortune and died intestate in America.

An English inventor has added a connection for a second lamp to a French inventor’s electric torch that contains a hand-operated generator to provide current. In the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, the electors, by 76,000 to 18,000 voted against a proposal to give women a vote in the elections of pastors, church councils and school boards.

The question of improving railway crossings is a burning one, though, it is not within the range of practical politics to attend to them all, as this would use up so much money. The best that can be done is to fix up the worst places. Hon. J. Gr. Coates.

Do trout eat whitebait f is a question often asked. It has been answered so far as one Greymo.Uth

angler is concerned. He informed a Star reporter that his wife, when cleaning two trout caught by him in the Grey river discovered about half a pint of whitebait in each fish. Private advice has reached Wellington by cable that a million-dol-lar contract has been signed for the sale of the United States rights for a New Zenland patent. It is claimed by those controlling the invention that it will revolutionise motor travelling by doing away entirely with the carburettor, which has for so long been regarded as essentia! to motor propulsion. The agent who proceeded to America has left San Francisco on his return to New Zealand, having, it is stated, secured a signed contract with an American corporation for tho disposal of the patent.