NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3023, 15 April 1926, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Swansea Corporation has voted £SO to restock the local reservoir with 3000 trout.

More than 1,800,000 people, who paid over £75,000 forjfckets, visited the London Zoo last year. Sixteen people were lately found to believing in one small cottage in a village near Market Drayton. An Uxbridge resident, who has secured the tenancy of a house after a long wait, has named it Atlast.

The area planted with sugar beet in England and Wales increased last year from 22,600 to 56,200 acres.

A French astronomer estimates that the stars surrounding the earth number approximately 35,000 millions. Seven thousand square miles of hitherto unexplored territory have just been added to the map of Alaska.

Rubber mats provided for policemen on point duty in Birmingham have greatly reduced liability to chills and colds. Just under a million and a-half acres were sown with wheat last year in England and Wales, the lowest figure recorded since 1904.

Tim Number Two, the money-box dog London Road Station, Manchester, has just died after having collected £7O a year for ten years. Bangor and Holyhead have celebrated the centenary of the Menai suspension bridge. The bridge was opened by the Duke of Wellington. A Great Western Railway signalman of 48 years of age, In -just obtained the B.Sc. degree of London University after three years of study.

Inspector Crack told the Hull stipendiary that foreign seamen visiting ports and aspiring to speak English always learned bad language first.

A request that its orders shall be put into plain English, has been sent to the British Ministery of Agriculture by the Crewkerne Farmers’ Union.

A small organ built for George 111. in 1760 has been presented to Eton College by Mr. Willian WyndJiam, of Orchard Wlyndham, Somerset.

A young swan, striking two overhead electric wires while flying, caused a short' circuit and stopped work at a Nottinghamshire colliery for half an hour. The Finland Government is proposing a pension for every convict who receives incurable injuries while in prison, and in case of his death his family will benefit. A diver on the bottom of the North Sea off Heligoland recently broadcasted his impressions to distant hearers. The transmission was heard plainly at Hamburg. Through the opening of the higlxj'.)\ver wireless station at Rugby it is now possible to send a message to any large ship, anywhere in the world, for Is 6d. A F.olkstone man bought a bottle of stout for supper. After drinking half a glass lie was starting to pour out some more of the liquid, when the head of a snake appeared at the opening of the bottle, fhe bottle and its contents were taken to the sanitary inspector, who extracted a grass snake measuring l(iin. long.