NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2937, 17 September 1925, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Alien a Chinaman took the oath at Bow County Court by breaking a saucer counsel exclaimed: “We shall require a large quantity of saucers, as there are nearly 20 Chinamen here.” To the usher: “You had better get in a stock.” During the year ended April 30, 1025, the value of settlers’ effects entering Canada from the United States amounted to 5,227,000 dollars, an increase of about 400,000 dollars, as compared with the corresponding period of the previous year.

Reading a newspaper, writing phrases upside down and backwards on a blackboard while spelling the words the right way, speaking continuously and answering various questions, are among the feats performed practically simultaneously by an American who recently appeared in London. While a bell-ringer named Carter was ringing the bells at Balle Parish Church, near Hastings, England, a slack bell rope curled round his neck and pulled him twice off the ground. Carter managed to release himself, but he was badly shaken. His neck and ears were sevcrly grazed and the muscles oh his arms wore sprained. By a recent decision of the British Government Palestine is to have its own coinage, the names of the units —shekels, dinars, and pintails —being those used in an ancient monetary system, closely connected with .Jewish history. It is about 1800 years ago that the last coins issued by a Jewish nation were put into circulation. The ancient British name of Cornwall was Cernyw, from the Latin “cornu,” a horn. The Romans who traded here for tin, called it “Cornubia,” and it bore this napie until the Saxons imposed the name of Wales upon the British who retreated into the fastnesses west of the Severn and the Dee. The latter portion of the name Cornubia was then dropped, and the word Wales substituted, forming the name “Corn-Wales,” of which the present Cornwall is a corruption.