NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2749, 24 June 1924, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A. buried arch of an old bridge built 1174 has just been discovered. Britain’s smallest industry is the making of stains which pick out certain bacilli in human tissue when inspected through a microscope. A lon of these dyes would meet the demand for about a century. Tea and coffee are to he banned in ihe United States if an ardent Prohibitionist- gets his way. He claims that they come under the clause prohibiting liquors which are in the least degree intoxicating. A franchise has been granted to lhe Canadian Petroleum Limited for permit number one for carbon black manufacture at Peace River, covering leases on some 50,000 acres. Other concessions have been made Sir Harry Lauder proposes another world tour. Interviewed in London he said that, after visiting India, and China, he would go to Xew Zealand to catch big trout. “Now Zealand,” he said, is a bonny country; it’s just like being at hame. When we were last I here Lady Lauder and I dined with the (iovernorGcneral, Lord Jellicoe. I did not see my old fricncl, Air Massey, the Premier of that country, as he was in England at the Empire Conference, but 1 hope to spend several days with him when I go again to his glorious country. However, I mol hundreds of good friends and 1 have come back with this impression; that if there, is any. domain under the British flag that is British to the backbone, it is New Zealand.