NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2969, 1 December 1925, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

The oldest eggs in the world are believed to be those found in Mongolia, and claimed to be those of the

dinosaur, a reptile which lived 10,000,000 years ago. Sloths, regarded as among the animal curiosities of the world, live all the time upside down. They walk, eat, and sleep while clinging to trees by their toes. Crime even of the minor order, has been practically unknown in Denham, Buckinghamshire, for nearly thirty years, yet this village is only fourteen miles from London.

In a bird sanctuary, within eight miles of the Marble Arch, London, nearly fifty varieties of birds have nested, while forty other species have been recorded as passing through. A fete in which troops took part was held recently on the scene of the battle of Busaeo, where AngloPortuguese forces under Wellington defeated French trops 110 years ago. Three sisters were recently married at one time at a Sevenoaks church; they were given away by a brother, a brother-in-law, and a friend, all of whom were named Harry. When live Feathers! one boys were charged at Pontefract with throwing stones from a bridge at trains, a police-sergeant said he found nearly half a hundred weight i)l.' stones on llie line.

For swimming to the rescue of entom bed miners at Killan Colliery I\lr. George Jones and Captain E. F. Rees are to receive Carnegie Hero Trust certificates of honour and .€2O each.

Forty-live ottL of 50 local schoolboys, voluntarily trained during the summer holidays in the art of life-saving by the Oxford City Police, were awarded certificates in the final test.

The recent visit to Aberdeen of the King and Queen is the second occasion in 275 years ott which a reigning King of Lite British isles lias paid a ceremonial visitation to that city. While a man was shooting at a floating ball in a booth at Meath his arm was jerked aside by the passing crowd and the shot entered the neck of the gild attendant, inlliciing a dangerous wound. The Quebec Streams Commission will have completed its work of damming Lake Kenogami by the fall, it lias been announced, when the huge reservoir will be completely finished. Already it is estimated that 12,000,000 cubic feet of water are stored there, and it is estimated that this figure will be considerably surpassed when the work is all finished.

A young cow found dead in a ft old at Child Okeford, Dorset, was sent to the neighbouring hunt kennels. An adder 18in. long was found in the animals stomach. The reptile was swallowed whole, and there was evidence that while yet tiive the adder caused internal injuries which brought about death, it is surmised that the cow swallowed the adder when drinking. A suggestion has been made by a Te Awamulu district settler, who

formerly resided in Ireland, that the Waikato land is admirably suited for the growing of lint, from which the world-famous Irish linen is manufactured.

Dr. Blaekmorc, superintendent of the Cashmere Hills Sanatorium, has written to Dr. Calmette, of Paris, asking for a supply of vaccine for inoculation of infants against tubercolosis. A Hamilton syndicate of six has received cabled advice of being amongst the successful ticket holders in a sweep in the Manchester Cup. The amount is understood to he in the vicinity of £3500. Because he had no tools with which to break il, 'Mr. Sparkes, a metal dealer, of Torquay, sold to another dealer an old rusty safe, which lie had bought for a few shillings. The second dealer smashed it with a sledge hammer and a steel chisel, and the safe was found to contain hundreds of letters, gold, silver, and copper coins, many valueless curios—ami four packages of gun-powder.