NEWS AND NOTES.

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

NEWS AND NOTES.

It is significant that in each election in New Zealand in which a tie has been recorded a journalist has been concerned. Mr. O’Brien, one of the Westland candidates, is a journalist, as is also Mr. LyonSj one of the Lyttelton candidates. The only other tie on l’ecord is that in which Mr. Edward Wjakefield was concerned. He also was a journalist

By using a new rapid-hardening cement, workmen, employed at the new Waterloo bridge, London, on a job below highwater mark, were able to beat the tide. The run-way for the big middle span had to rest on a low-lying buttress, and, in order to give this a fiat top, the engineers decided to grout it with cement. The work was carried out at low tide, and the grouting was found to be quite hard by the time the water reached it on the flood.

If a Hying boat of fifty tons weight has not been developed within the next ten years, progress will have been inordinately slow, Oliver Simmonds told the engineering section of. the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Southampton. Such a machine would have a body of about 0000 square feet wing space and'a span of 220 feet. It would accomodate 100 persons, would ily at more than 10 knots an hour, and would travel up to 1500 miles without alighting. Such a boat would be able to ily from Europe to America with only one sLop, at the Azores, in 30 hours or less.

A dramatic story of thieves’ justice was revealed in New York when the bullet-riddled corpse of an underworld character known as David Bram, was found by the police in a closed motor car parked in a side street in a slum quarter of the city. They declare that it was Bram who furnished tips on which the police this week spectacularly raided the bootlegger’s headquarters situated in a palatial suite in one of New York’s largest oliice buildings, from which the organisation directed the supply of liquor Lo all parts of the country. One bank-book alone seized by the police showed deposits of more than £40,000 in one week.