NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2909, 14 July 1925, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Lights in the Hertfordshire War Memorial Hospital are to be rearranged so that patients may read in bed.

In his parish magazine the vicar of Colnbrook acknowledges a tin of cough lozenges dropped into the alms bag. A new railway bridge, costing £BOO,OOO, is to bo built across the Zambesi to connect Nyasaland with the rising port of Beira. A collection of Lowestoft Porcelain, made at the factory between 175(i and 1803, was sold at Sotheby’s recently for £1,80!).

Joe Ivankovitch was charged at the Thames Police Court yesterday with reckless driving on a country road. While returning home from the Paeroa races he attempted to pass another car while travelling at a high speed, causing both cars to capsize into an open ditch and injuring several persons. He was lined £2O, with costs, and an order was issued that be be nol granted a driver’s license 1 for two years.

A most interesting case was recently discharged from the Cook Hospital (Gisborne) completely cured. Rome time ago a man working at a local timber yard ran a big splinter of wood between the nail of one of his fingers, and be-

fore very long tetanus set in. He was taken to hospital, and as usual.

ie muscles of bis whole body conacted, causing what is commonly

known as lock-jaw. The man suffered intense agony during the attack, and was treated throughout with anti-tetanic serum. Fortunately some of his teeth were missing, and he was fed by means of a tube placed in the gap. For a time the spasms caused by the dread germ were very severe, but gradually as tlie scrum look effect they became less severe, and the man was filially discharged perfectly lit again.

A girl named Olive Cane, the 13-year-old daughter of Mr Walter Cane, of Lincoln Road, Christchurch, received shocking injuries when attacked by a dog at the home of a friend. Stooping to pick up a reel of cotton she had dropped, the girl was pounced upn by the dog. It first tried to get the reel away from her, and failing, clawed angri-

1 y at her face and bit a piece off her liose. At the hospital it was found that seven stitches were needed in the flesh at the lower part of the left eye, and tlesli had to be grafted on to her nose. The dog, a spaniel, was destroyed by the inspector of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In a wild, inaccessible locality that has been kept secret a strange discovery was made some yeais ago by a member of a survey party who chanced to explore a limestone cave (states a Wanganui correspondent). The “find” was a petrified man, evidently a Maori who had sought sanctuary in the cave perhaps centuries before, there died, and remained to this day, a man fashioned in stone. Information m reward to the strange discovery has been held in Wanganui for some time, and, as the result of steps taken a syndicate of "Wanganui business men has been formed to go into the matter. One member of the syndicate states tlmt arrangements are completed to retrieve the stone man, and bring him to Wanganui It will necessitate the chartering of a small steamer, and provision of tools and gear to cut out a solid block of about five tons of limestone, and transport and ship it. Asked if it were for the Wanganui » “Not on your hie. \W <m „ ? take him on tour. There is a Untune in it.”