NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2928, 27 August 1925, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

The love which is often poetically described as a spring “malady" ha> now been given a prosaic explanation. It is asserted that it is the moisture of the season that causepeople to write poems, fall in love and shun work

Only two “donkey wells” now remain in England. The one at Kenworth, near Dunstable, was built about 1000. In these wells donkeys walk inside a huge wheel, causing it to revolve and draw water from the depths of the earth.

What is probably tho most wide-ly-travelled eal in the world left London recently for Norway. He is Araguaya Tom. (lie mascot of the Koval .Mail Steam Packet boat Araguaya. lie has completed 108,000 miles of seafaring—equivalent to more than four times round the world. A survey has been made of the kind of news most prominent on the first pages of American newspapers. Political news takes 88 per cent, of the space police news comes second with 22, accident and disaster news is third with 15, foreign news claims 13, business 5 and so on. The survey covered the news for several years past. Raffles is a subject dealt, with in the annual report of the Department of Internal Affairs, which says that conditions under which licenses to raffle are granted provide that only the articles specified are to be raffled, and that there must' be no substitution of other prizes or payment in cash. Certain cases have, however, come under notice in which advertisements have been placed on the tickets in which private motor firms offer to give to the winner a motor car, suite of furniture, etc., for the prizes indicated on the tickets. To prevent any evasion of the Act a condition is now inserted in the license that no advertisements will be permitted on any art (back or

front of the tickets, or any part of the book or tickets.