NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2689, 31 January 1924, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

Spain lias had lift ecu ftovernnients during the last fourteen years. The stickleback is si very voracious lish, in spite of its small si/.e. A esiptive specimen under close observation was seen to devour 7d small dace, each about si (jiiarter ~f an inch loiiyr. in five hours, and (i2 more two dsiys siflerwards.

The domestic feline is iml the only culprit in the matter ol devouring the morning supply of milk. An Oantaru resident who got up earlier than usiisil one day last week, dis- , overed si hedgehog with its bristly hesid in his milk jug.

“Do von mean to say that si railwav employee who went on duty drunk would hold his position tor long ?" sisked a lawyer of si witness it. si maintenance case heard before Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court, Christehureii. “Well, it all depends what his duty is." “What do you mean by thsit ?" “Well, sin engine-driver who goes on duly about three or four o'clock in the morning mightn’t he seen.’

“Isn’t there some one in charge who would see him?" “Oh! Well, there’s a lot seen, but not noticed!”

“The deep-sea fish in southern centres of the Dominion differ slightly from those secured in the trawl nets off the northern coasts,” remarked an Auckland resident who has just returned from a holiday visit to the south. “It is stated that the colder the water (lie finer the lish and yet, I think, that in spite of the warmer climate, our fish compare very favourably with those of the South Island. The southern trawling fleets do not comprise so many vessels as those in the North.”'

How the sun’s rays cure disease was described by Sir Henry Gnu via n at a meeting of the People’s League of Health. Luminous rays from the sun, lies aid, have the power of passing through the skin and being absorbed by the blood. When a person's arm had been exposed to the sun, the returning blood had a temperature of 115 degrees—higher than was compatible with life. Yet the person derived benefit, indicating that injurious toxins were thus destroyed. Tl is only a matter of time, Sir Henry suggested, when light waves of different lengths would he found to have distinct and selective beneficial properties in the treatment of disease.

A clerk in one of the public offices near Mouloa Gardens (says the Wanganui Chronicle.) found his eye wandering from his ledger to a young lady who was making her way across the green sward. Te his astonishment he observed her skirt drop suddenly from her waist. All confusion, she attempted to gather the truant garment into position, but only to make her predicament the more embarrassing if not picturesque. In despair, she fled to the friendly sanctury of a shrubbery, thence to reappear with nothing but a rosy blush to tell the tale of her misadventure. The clerk, meanwhile, like a perfect gentleman , had applied himself vigorously to his arithmetical dut-