NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2925, 20 August 1925, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

Science always has maintained that the human ear, unlike the eye, cannot be fatigued. Now, as a result of experiments with radio apparatus, it is asserted that the ear apparently does become physically tired. All the human races, including the African negroes, and all savages, have tire same origin, according to an American scientist; hut the diilerlnce in intellectual development makes it impossible for them Lo he equal. Music played by a Loudon orchestra crossed the Atlantic to Pittsburg, returned to England and was heard again by the director of the orchestra standing near his bandsmen. This is one of the latest marvels of wireless.

Twenty years ago there was still me Waterloo veteran left in the and of the living, ife was a Welshman —one -John Vaughan, resident it Wallsall, where lie got a living mil of his small pension and the hawking of bootlaces. He was a bugler in the great battle, and was twice wounded.

Evening .service in Welsh churches in olden Limes were nol oi'ten held iu winlei*, as there were no ±'a.cilities lor lighting the churches, in Llansannan Church sixty years ago there were no lamps, nor any standards oh caudles, but lamps oil clay were stuck on the ends oh the seats and on these candies were iixed.

Th liev. Ur. J. IS. Ogilvie, Edinburgh, the new president oh the t'resbyterian Alliance, is one oh the gixat missionary statesmen oh the world. Jb’or many years he guided the missionary secretary. He is the author oh a recent important book, “The Empire's Debt to Missions."

A vivid pen-picture is given by Mr. lvanisay MacDonald oh his constituency oh Aberavon which goes up hor twelve miles hrom the sea into the heart oh the mountains. A river runs through the valley, the hills press by on its side, a railway barely linds room between the river and the hills, the villages hang by their eyebrows to the mountain slopes.