NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2871, 16 April 1925, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Facial surgery, including the remodelling of injured noses ears and lips, was known in Italy as long ago as 1450. A Yarmouth man, who was fined IDs for assaulting his wife, told the Court he had merely driven her to do her work.

A domestic fly carrying what is estimated at 7,000,000 typhoid germs was recently shown on the lilms hy a new process. “Fifteen shillings or a pound a day is the average for a good beggar,” said an official of the London Mendicity Society recently.

Saxophones, the gem of the modern jazz hand, are credited to a Belgium musician, Antoine Joseph Sax, who produced the first ‘‘saxhorn” in 1843.

Bones of a prehistoric reptile dug up in Tanganyika Territory, Africa, are so enormous that it took 10 men to lift one of them when uncovered.

Mourners at a wake at TuliyCobitt, near Ballybav, County .Monaghan, Ireland, were recently injured 1 •• the collapse of parts of I he roof.

Constantinople's old Imperial palace, which dates hack to the 10th century, is now used as a museum and storehouse for the national treasures.

What happens when a motor car owner loses his number plate or has it destroyed? It appears that it is impossible to obtain a duplicate and the Act does not provide for another one being obtained. At the end of the 12 months the original plate is to be returned.

A Masterful! resident recently received a letter which was addressed to him in the year ID2O from England to India while he was on Ins va hack to New Zealand. The letter has been travelling round curious post olliccs for live years, and has now ranched its de-U'na!-

A champion! Charlc:- Dunbar, weighing 445 i.. was buried at Aberdnre, Scotland recently, lie was -ix feel fall, and his “bay-window" measurement wa> eight feel. The cotlin was so heavy that it had to be carried to the cemetery on a lorry. Oved 2D,ODD people watched the procession. Dunbar claimed that he was the King’s heaviest subject. A grant for the resumption of the work of restoring Brough Castle, Westmoreland, a 2000-year-old Roman border fortress, is probable. In the lime of Queen Elizabeth a law was made that no new building should he erected within three miles of London or Wcstmere.

For the post of junior medical officer a Sunderland children’s hospital. with a salary of £IOO a year, 78 women doctors applied.

The Oban river country promises to become one of the favourite deer-stalking localities in New Zealand. Besides the sixteen and thir-teen-pointer heads secured last week, word has just been received that Mr Haiberg, of Mauricevillc, Wairarapa, yesterday secured a twentv-tliree pointer on “Tangiliioana,” which although somewhat deficient- in spread for such a head, was of great weight and niassiveness. The record head for New Zealand is said to he a 24-pointer shot in the Kakaia Gorge, Smith Island, about four years ago.

Two local motor cyclists had an unpleasant experience on Satui day evening (says the Chronicle) when returning from Fox ton. Leaving that township at midnight they had proceeded some distance past the whirokiuo Bridge when the benzine in one of the cycles ran out, and it was decided to wait until a ear passed in order to obtain a supply. It was raining and bitterly cold and the two young men waited under, the inadequate shelter of the raupo in the roadside for three hours, dashing out at intervals to stop passing cars, the owners of which were in all instances willing to supply the necessary “juice’ hut lacked any means of transferring it to the cycle tank. At last one genial soul arrived who had in the car a sherry giass, and in this small carrier the benzine was, with infinite patience, passed across. A few miles further on, a chain broke, and the youthful devotees of motor cycling, convinced that enough was as good as a feast, hailed a car which providentially cam® along, and running their cycles into a paddock, did the remainder of the journey home in comparative comfort.