NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2726, 29 April 1924, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Tin* rose is the emblem of see re ov in Greece, ami was formerly hung over the tables where guests were entertained in token that nothing heard was to be repeated. Mrs Ella Boweraft. Torquay, has given £B,OOO for the purchase of a site for the erection of a new hos pital. The estimated cost of the scheme i< between £OO,OOO and £IOO 000.

I’n an accident ca-e at Olarkenwell County Court it was slated that a hoy injured by an empty moforhdnrse was picked up and taken on the hearse to a hospital.

The world’s loudest loud-speaker has been completed at Tdora, California. II lias an aperture of 12ft., is 25ft. long, and has a range of 25 square miles.

Richard 1, in the year 1189, granted to Colchester the first charter, by which the town holds the right to the oyster fishery in the Colne and its creeks.

“I find that when a man calls himself a business man be does everything he ought not to du,” said Judge Parfitt at the Clerkenwell County Court recently.

The idea that the bracing effect of seaside air is due to the ozone it contains is incorrect Scientists have proved that ozone is never present except in air more than 8000 feet above sea level.

The word “budget” which is common to the British and French Parliaments, is derived from the Norman French word “bougette,” signifying a leather purse or wallet.

The sum of £I,OOO has been paid by the Government as compassionate allowance to Charles Macfarlane, of Takapuna, who was totally incapacitated as the result of injuries received in the Ongarue railway disaster in July last. Macfarlane, who was a passenger on the train, had his left arm crushed and broken from the shoulder to the wrist and bis right leg fractured at the knee.

Other nationalities beside the British appear to appreciate the possibilities of New Zealand, judging by a remarkable communication from an Austrian which has been received by the president of the Auckland industrial Association, Mr J. A. C. Allum. The writer offers to bring skilled workers from Austria to the Dominion, and suggests a scheme under which the British Consul in Vienna and the Austrian **- torities would finance the immigrants.