NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2810, 13 November 1924, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Of the hundreds of nurses sent by one religious order to tend the sufferers in leper colonies, not one has ever eintraeted the dread disease.

Liverpool Street Station was opened 50 veai'.s ago this year. Before that happened the Great Eastern Railway terminated at Shoreditch.

Two observers studying insect life in Texas were attracted by a loud buzzing and caught sight of a wasp at work. The insect was holding a pebble between its mandibles and striking it against the ground* by moving its whole body up and down after the fashion of. a piledriver.

For the first time in North America, the Fisheries Department has succeeded in hatching out sturgeon. The feat was accomplished on the Pigeon River, Lake Winnipeg. After much difficulty, two sturgeons were netted and from their eggs eight thousand fish have been spawned.

A man left his umbrella in a carriage on the Great Western Railway some months ago. The other week, while travelling on the London and North-Eastern Railway, he came across it: again on the rack of the carriage in which lie was travelling.

Trafalgar Square, London, contains the most accurate standard for checking tape measures, or of rendering exact heights in Britain. Bronze blocks let. into the northwest corner mark the exact foot and yard, They were put there in 1874 by the Board of Trade and are still the subject of official care.

Commenting upon the recent mishap at the lion’s tent at the Gisborne showgrounds, the Napier Telegraph remarks: This is presumably the same lioness which endeavoured to attack a small girl standing alongside its cage at the show at Hastings.. With a-recur-rence of the incident at Gisborne it seems obvious that the daugerous beast should be subject to more severe restrictions than are imposed on it at present.

The danger of leaving old paint tins lying about was exemplified on a farm in Tauranga County a few days ago. A little old paint, scraped from a tin, was left lying in a paddock. Five splendid young calves, the pick of the season, came along and licked up the paint, with the result that the whole of them died. Another local owner lost a valuable cow from the same cause this week.