NEWS IN BRIEF.
Divorce is cheaper in the Union of South Africa than anywhere else in the British Empire, thrteen shillings covering all the essential payments to a poor litigant. Plant life, from the seed bursting until the flower dies, leaving new seed in its place, has been successfully screened, the whole process being shown in less than half an hour.
Apart from London’s Tube and Metropolitan Railways, the number of railway passenger journeys in September last year shows a decrease of six per cent, on the same period for 1924. “I think intelligence tests should be applied to some of the examiners as well as the examinees” —a member of the Wanganui Education Board at the monthly meeting. Plum pudding seems, at one time, to have been a breakfast dish, for at a Christmas breakfast at the Royal chaplain’s in 1801 the first course was a dish of “rich plumporridge.” One of the latest applications of electricity is in the treatment of dogs for distemper. Exposed to ultra violet rays for fifteen minutes at a time, the treatment is said to be very effective. A hare pursued by several coursing beagles ran through the main streets of Melton, Mowbray. It eluded the dogs for nearly two miles, but was run to earth in the kitchen of a house, where it was killed.
For the past ten years the Elswick smallpox hospital, which serves the Flyde district of Lancashire, has averaged only one patient per annum, and the largest number of patients in any one year was three.
A motor-lorry owned by a man named Holden, driven by a Holden, with a Holden as a driver’s mate, came into collision at Blackburn with a motor-car. The owner of the motor-car was a Holden; so was the driver. The policeman on point duty • reported the accident. His name was Holden.
A man came so frequently under surgeon’s manipulations at a London nursing home that he made a hobby of collecting himself in glass jars and bottles. Starting with tonsils, he went on with molars and -such components, until he had filled a shelf with “spare parts” carefully dated and described. The Auckland City Council declined to grant permission to the Communist Party to speak in the civic square on Sunday evenings, only Messrs. Bloodworth, Entrican, and Phelan voting to the contrary. They explained that they had nothing to do with the party in question, but simply wanted the right of free speech. The London “Daily Expess” says that realising that the next air Avar will be founght at a height of ten or twelve miles, the Air loree is experimenting with artificial conditions representing air at great heights. Experiments slioav that neAV super-charging devices will enable a 2450 horsepower engine to develop its full power. The aeroplanes will be airtight, and carry oxygen apparatus, as human beings are unable to breathe at such heights.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3014, 23 March 1926, Page 1
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483NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3014, 23 March 1926, Page 1
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