NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2845, 12 February 1925, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Four hundred signs bearing (he f<ireful warnings “One Avas Killed Here,” are being placed at corners in Chicago, where motor ear fatalities occurred last year. The ReA r . J. J. Roche, wlio died in Wexford, Ireland, recently, in his lOOtli year, was a link with five Ropes, having first gone to Rome when Gregory XVI was Pope. In .Australia, Tasmania and certain parts of New Zealand there is a moth that was once highly prized as a litbil of food. Tt is known as Ihc Rugong molh, the scientific name of which is the agrolis spina, and it measures from an inch to an inch and n-(|itarler to I wo inches across the wings. These mollis conlain much oil and have a. nut-milk devour. The natives learned to eat I hem from watching the crows feed on them when they swarmed on granite boulders. A Wanganui resident who was in an amiable mood the other morning, s;,ys the Herald, said lie had been approached with a view l<> liis being appointed a Justice of the Peace, but he reluctantly declined. When pressed for his reason, he said if was all due to a little experience lie had some years ago in another part of the Dominion, when he was prosecuted because his scales were out of order. The Justice avlio presided not only gave him the fatlier of a lecture regarding his obligations to the public and how the unfortunate public had to be protected. “I did nof mind being stung for the fiver,” he added, “but Avliat do you think? The justice who fined me sold me the same scales a feAv years previously and had used them in his OAen-business!”