NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2666, 1 December 1923, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

Glow worms are much more brilliant just before an approaching storm than they are at any other time. Farmers in *he early days in New Zealand lost a lot of on!tie owing to the beasts having eaten tutu, which is a dangerous poison. The ‘Southland Times’ states that in many districts down there the tutu is plentiful and as the most dangerous time of the year is appraoching, a practical fanner wrote about what he states to be. a reliable remedy. Ilis letter is as follows: “If you find a beast stretched out with tutu poisoning, next door to death, give it immediately a whisky bottle full of kerosene. I have never known this remedy to fail. I have seen cattle down and apparently out, but. after administering this dose they have connnen-. ced grazing within a quarter of an hour. When T say give them a full bottle, I allow for a good deal being spilt in the operation.” As most farmers have kerosene handy this information should be of value. Motor car production in the Touted States is breaking all “records.” In the first eight months of 1023 (he total production exceeded that of either of the two preceding full years, according to the Department of Commerce. Reports from 381 manufacturers show an output of 2.431,003 passenger cars and 2•') 8774. commercial vehicles, as against 2,330,414 passenger cars and 244.882 commercial vehicles in the twelve months of 1022 and 1.535,100 and 147,108 respectively in 1021. The peak of production this year came in May, when 350,181 passengenenrs and 43,223 commercial vehicles were manufactured, and even in August there was a produet ion of 304,010 passenger ears and 30,251 commercial vehicles.

“Curious things happen in iimes of war that are quite unexpected and are never thought of by headquarters,” said Mr Ainsley, at the gathering of veterans recently. In the Franeo-Prussian war, he said a party of three f diinns went out on a forage expedition and somehow got out of their reckoning. The French at the time were so overpowered and deceived that they had no heart to tight. In this instance, continued the narrator, the trio followed the particular road (hey were on, and when their helmets were seen by those in the town they were approaching, a detachment of 50ft Frenchmen retired a mile in the opposite direction. The three Uhlans consequently went into town and demanded a ransom, threatening, in the alterative to destroy the place. They received their price, and it was proved afterwards that the remainder of the enemy were not within 14 miles. —Times.