NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3001, 20 February 1926, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The eggs of the octopus when first laid are small, oval, translucent granules resembling grains of rice, not quite an eigth of an inch long. They form along and around a common stalk like grapes on a bunch, and each bunch is fixed to a rock or stone by a gelatinous secretion, and hangs. One octopus will lay 40 or 50 clusters of eggs.

There is a good Samaritan in Wellington in tbe disguise of a doctor (says the Post), who expresses bis sympathy for those affected by war 1 service in a very practical manner. It was stated at the annual meet--1 ing of the War Relief Association that-when a soldier appealed for assistance lie was sent to tbe association’s doctor, who was always willing to treat him. “This doctor sometimes has men under his care for months,” said Mr. Tripp, “but tie won’t accept any money for his services, and he won’t let me mention his name.”

A sleep walker caused quite a scare to some young women who were sleeping out on a verandah of their father’s house. Tn the middle of the night they heard the front gate open and soon saw a figure walk along the path near to where they were sleeping. They were frightened beyond men sure and were too scared to shout out, but the figure continued on its wav and jumped’ the back fence of the garden in a mechanical! kind of way, then it dawned on them that is was a ease of somnambulism and such it proved to lie. Many years ago, the sleeper, as a lad, had gone that way as a short cut to his work, and now, in his sleep, lie was seeking out the “Shine path. When giving an explanation of what had happened the man said it was now over forty years since he had been known to walk in his sleep.