NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2822, 11 December 1924, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

All imonymuu.s gift of £I,OOO has been made towards the cost of publishing' a new edition of the Maori Bible. At present there is no complete edition.

When the 52,000-ton Cunarder Rcrengariu was (locked at Southampton, she extended more than 50 feet beyond the length oif the dock, L<*(li ahead and astern. It took 45 minutes |o get her into position, and three and a-half hours to lift her liigh and dry. An experiment in broadcast receiving is being made by the National Omnibus and. Transport Co., Ltd., which is starting a monthly service for theatre visitors from Colchester to London. The omnibus will be titled with a special set, including a loud-speaker, and headphones for each passenger.

Rules sixty years old provide that customers of the Ship, a publichouse near Bishopgate. London, may have only one drink each, must mil smoke, must m.; talk loud'.-, or m any wav misbehave themselves. The business was started by an ancestor of Mr Lionel Wiifnno. the present manager. The origin of the rules is unknown u him.

The whole of Switzerland is laughing oxer a burglary at the residence of Dr. Hilzhay, a millionaire Communist Deputy, who was continually fulminating against the capitalists. The crime is attributed to Communist, comrades. The burglars ransacked his house from cellar to attic. When the ease is heard Dr. Hitzbay will be forced to reveal how be gained his fortune. Sir James Allen, in addressing the Military Society at Aldershot, said New Zealand’s capacity to absorb more than ten thousand immigrants yearly depended on what was done by Britain in providing markets. He suggested a round-table conference between France, Britain and Hie Dominions to overcome objections to the New Hebrides Condominium, Representatives in London should be admitted to the Imperial Defence Committee’s deliliera (ions.

An interesting fact in connection with Rangitofo Island was referred to at the meeting of the Waitemnta Chamber of Commerce last evening. The reference was to (he deed whereby the island passed from the .Maori owner, Xgatai, on January 17, 1854, to the Queen of England, her heirs and successors, for ever,for the sum of' £.15. A receipt for the amount was duly given. A Washington cable stales that an airplane will race the shadow of the moon four hundred miles across New York State during the sun eclipse on January 24. Photographs will be taken from the plane of the sun’s flaming corona for the purpose of an experiment worked out by Professor David Todd to permit, photographing for a longer period than, approximately, the two minutes the eclipse is visible from the earth.

Cottage building is going on at a rapid rate in and about Dunedin, (hough (lie cost shows no sign of decreasing, having, indeed, an up■ward tendency, mainly oil account of the shortage of skilled and semiskilled labour (says an exchange). Some proprietors are 'having to offer 1/- a day extra to get men they want. Tn these circnmslanees the persons who built a year or two ago are better off than others who waited in the hope of a reduetion in prices or 'wages or both. Two sportsmen a well-known medical man and a friend —says the Nelson Mail, spent a reeenl weekend down Ihe Btiller after deer. No deer were sighted, however, bnl on the homeward track a drove of pig.- gave splendid sport —three of them biting the dust as the result of an enthusiastic bombard--metil. The -portsmon in due course and with great pride presented their friends with succulent roasts of pork, but rumour hath it that when their host mustered his pigs to the sty he was three short in his tally!