GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2704, 6 March 1924, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A wireless alarm clock has been invented which responds to vibrations of a certain wave length broad cast in the neighbourhood. Charged with begging in a London street, a young man was reported to have “made up” his face with theatrical grease paint to appear ;ik if he was frozen with cold. Three hundred tons of the best rag paper are used in producing one .year’s supply of British stamps, numbering seven hundred million. Magial.ral.e (to prisoner) : “1 must bind you over to keep the peace I.oV/iudi; hie. Majesty'll subjects.” Prisoner ; "Then goodner.H help the Din I, furrmer I meets, IliutVi all I” An e-jfU'rtordiiiiiry freak in Hootch thistle was I,uluin to Oamu.ru last week by Mr J. Cul.liherLson, of Glcnuvery. A stem about live inches wide developed to a width of nearly nine inches at the apex, which contained a cluster of about one hundred heads of bloom. The following letter (says the Greymouth Star) was received by a Greymouth business man: “If you would be kind enough to get a divorce on ill-treatment, also, keep company with an another woman. If you please sign your name at the bottom of the divorce. We will get fixed up after, l’lease and oblidge. ( Signed) Mrs.

“These acclimatiseibm societies make plenty of arrangements t<> import animals, but they seldom consul the farmers," >aid Mr J. Christie at the meeting of the Farmers’ Union executive in Wellington. “I believe (ha! the damage done by the indiscriminate importa tion of vermin would pay—or more than pay—the National Debt. It is only right that farmers should have some say about what these societies shall turn loose on their runs.”

An interesting point with regard to the length of time the Maoris have been in New Zealand was made by a Wanganui resident the other day in the course of a discussion upon this subject, says the Herald. He mentioned that a few years ago, when working in the hush in the South Island, he came across the remains of a fire, also two small stone axes, under a tree, which, according to its rings, was estimated to he over 850 years of age. The oldest tree in the forest was 1500 years.

Radio will be so developed in the future that photographs can he transmitted across the oceans which will later lead to the development of radio television —the art of sending and receiving motion pictures by wireless —and to the ultimate achievement of the transmission by radio, both in America and abroad, simultaneously, of both sound and moving pictures. These were predictions by David SarnofT of New York City, vice-president and general manager of the Radio Corporation of America, in an address at the University of Missouri. “There is an old story of a bygone practitioner whose simple habit it was to tie a piece of string about the waist of Ids patient,” said Mr Garrick Robertson, in his presidential address to delegates to the Medical Conference al I lie civic, reception, at Auckland the other evening, says the Herald. "He would then ask the sufferer to locate the pain. It this were above the. string, he administered an emetic; if below, a purgative; while if the pain and the string coincided the unhappy victim would receive both. This story I tell you as a warning for it is a melancholy fact that in spite of all our training and constant study there are times' when it seems easier to become a disciple of such a practitioner than to enforce our minds to form that clear mental picture of the pathological and psychological condition of our patient which must precede a correct diagnosis.”