NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2847, 17 February 1925, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The leaves of a Californian plant, the Venus fly-trap, engulf any inject alighting on them. Tlie victim is converted into a liquid, which goes to nourish the plant. Married on the same day in 1874 two brothers of Magor, near Newport, have recently celebrated their golden weddings in the village where they have lived all their lives.

On only two estates in England —Dalemain, in Cumberland , and Buncombe Park, in Yorkshire —can deer-stalking, similar to the sport of the Scottish Highlands be enjoyed.

On a recent Temperance Sunday, Mr Stout and Mr Burton preached at Ikeston, England, and at another place Mr Beer took up the collection and Mr Drinkvvater played the organ.

Men who make and repair the slated and tiled roofs o#’London buildings, will in future receive, in addition to their ordinary wages, "height money," which has long been paid in the north of England. Excavations are to lie undertaken by Dr Cyril Fox, Cardiff, at Olfa’s Dyke and Watt’s Dyke. Oca King of Mercia, who died in 790, is said to have built the dyke as a foilitication against the Welsh. A man named Maurice Baker, of Sudbury, Sucolk, wsa thrown from bis bicycle bv a cat running into the front wheel, and fell under a motor lorry which caused fatal injuries. Gramophone records preserved in the British Museum include extracts spoken by Florence Nightingale, Lord Tennyson, and Gladstone. Queen Victoria also made a record for the special use of King Alenelik of Abyssinia.

It was explained of a deaf, dumb and blind man at. Blackburn the other day that the palm of his hand is so sensitive that he can understand a word traced on it with a linger or pencil. An enormous 80,000-horsepower steam generally has ben delivred to a public power station in the Western States of America. It is estimated that it accomplishes work equal to the effort of 5,000,000, the whole slave population of America before the Civil War.