NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2929, 29 August 1925, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

A cargo of Australian milling wheat recently received at an Invercargill mill was the largest, quantity tiiken in, in one shipment, for many years. It comprised 24,350 hags, equal to 243 truckloads. It is generally supposed that riming water in Otago will not freeze. An Oamaru resident has proved to the contrary. He recently visited Central Otago, and while there saw the water from a spray-pipe frozen into an ire-block the shape of a shrub.

Frost fish ceased to be a rarity in Alanaia last week. Following the heavy frosts of the lasi few days a number of residents searched the beaches early in the morning and were duly rewarded. No less than 37 frost fish (none of them under (ift long) were found, states the Witness.

A hair-raising experience befell the passengers on an Italian train on the Bovnn incline, at the lop of which the brakes failed. The train ran hack and gathered a speed of DO miles an hour. All the passengers jumped dear, but the conductor stuck to his post, and was reduced to pulp when the train plunged into a ravine. The nudity cult seems to have obtained so great a number of adherents in certain parts of Eastern Switzerland that the authorities have had to intervene to put a stop to this new craze. Recently some forty young people of both sexes were fined for strolling the count reside after the fashion of Adam and Eve.

Sir John Beynon, the South Wales coal magnate, has given his residence, “The Coldra,” near Newport, ns a maternity home in memory of his mother. The mansion is valued a t over ,(.'GO,OOO. Rigid years ag" Sir John gave Maindiff Court'. Abergavenny, with thirty acres of land, as a hospital. The Government is negotiating for the purchase of the late Sir Walter Biiehnnnan’s properly, mi lb,, basis of Government valuation of about Tlti an acre. "As a matter of fact,” said the Hun. A. D. McLeod, in making this announcement at Pahiatua, “1 am not sure that it is going to he payable even at that.”

In discussing the advantages of ua.tive timbers-, an old resident of the Wanganui district stated last week that it was not generally known that awa timber was used for making crates in which to export butter from New Zealand in the early days. Kata, lie declared, made the best possible cross-arms for electric power lines, and. he understood, was used a good deal ii) I lie Wanganui district by the power hoard.

A remarkable accident betel a girt named Eva Balte, aged ten, late on Friday afternoon at Auckland. The child climbed to the verandah roof of a shop in Symomls S|reef, and walked on to a glass skylight, which broke under her weight'.* She fell to .the concrete, a. distance of twenty feet. The only injurv was a cut hand , although she suffered from shock. The child was removed to the hospital by the St. John Ambulance. and received treatment in the casualty ward. Considering the fact that lie has been out of England so much during the last five or six years, it is rattier surprising to recall that this year’s birthday celebrations of the Prince of Wjaies are only the second which have taken place away from home since the war. The first occasion was when the Prince was in the middle of his lour of Now Zealand and Australia, in 1020. although he only just escaped spending his 28tli birthday on the Renown, for the battlecruiser reached tier home port from the India and and Far East tour a couple of da vs before the event. A new island is arising out of the sea simultaneously with an eruption of the old volcano on the island of Santonin. ' Flames arc beino' thrown upwards from the volcano to a height of 300 ft. The voh-anic island of Sanloriu, or Thira, is situated in the Aegean Sea. and is one of the Cyclades (•■roup. Willi Ihe island of Thiraisa and the islet of Aspr.misi to the west, it forms an interrupted ring, the crater of the volcano, in the middle of which have arisen, through eruptions within historic times, the three Kaimeni islets, Palora. Nea and Mekra. All of these have been enlarged by eruptions since 18GG. The height of ML Saint Elias, on Santorin Island, is 1.015 ft.