NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2758, 15 July 1924, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

A man against whom his wife instituted proceedings for separation and maintenance in the Magistrate’s Court, Auckland, when asked what lie had done to support his family replied that he once shot a whale hut that he made no profit out of the carcase.

The Chinese residents of the Maiiawatu have subscribed £l2O towards tlie cost of the entertainment of the Chinese University Soccer team. They have decided to present two cups to mark the occasion of the visit of the team to Palmerston North. One is to be handed over to the team for competition in China and the other to the Mauawatu Football Association for a club competition.

It is not always profitable to display zeal in the performance of a public duty (remarks tlie North Ot-

ago Times). A resident of Omnartt saw a policeman arresting a drunken man. He jumped off his bicycle and went to the assistance of the constable. lie received tin* thanks of the country, but on returning from the police station be discovered that his bicycle bad been appropriated and lie had to walk a mile to his home in a cold, frosty atmosphere.

A San Francisco scientist, Mr Marcel Moreau, announces that lie has found a way of harnessing the sun’s heat. He declares that working from experiments credited to Archimedes and BulTon hundreds of years ago, lie lias succeeded in devising a combination of little mirrors set in a bowl about four>feet in diameter which, when focussed through a number of small lenses, will produce tremendous beat from (lie sun’s light. He says he can regulate the heat produced to the excel degree desired. Mr Moreau claims to have produced with his machine heat sufficient to melt a diamond and cause it to disappear as gas. The good old Australian game “two up,” brings down upon those playing it the clutching hand of the law (reports the Otago Times). Seemingly the only way in which to play it with full sense of security is to wait until one gets into gaol. The story, as told by a goal official of how punishment has been meted out to the prisoners who took pari in the recent uprising in Bathurst gaol throws ail interesting and almost humorous sidelight oil the life behind grim prison walls. The ringleaders, who were sentenced to 28 days solitary confinement, had pveviotislv enjoyed special rations and also concessions, which as the story goes, permitiod the men at the week ends and on holidays to sit about in groups in the exercise yard and vnrn, and even play poker and “two up” with tobacco as the stakes. All these privileges are now hut a memory for the insurgents. l‘otnieelv ihcv were also allowed a safely laf.or and shaving material in then cells, and could gratify their fancy for anv special style of hair cut or trim. Tliis little concession has also gone. The authorities issue a specially printed newspaper for circulation among the prisoners, and picture shows and concerts ate teetilarlv given, so that there are worse places than prison so long as one behaves himself when bezels there.