NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3037, 18 May 1926, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Oranges have many claims made for them, including those of improving the complexion, easing sore throats, soothing the nerves, helping to cure influenza, and curing insomnia.

What is known as Shetland wool is said to come principally from llucknall, Nottinghamshire, where are six factories employing nearly 1000 people engaged in this industrv.

Among I host* who pleaded lo be t*xi*used I'rom serving on a Grand

Jury at the Old Bailey recently was a middle-aged man, who said, “I can’t read or write—if that’s any excuse.”

Holiday lists are being brought up to date in the British General Post Office, with the result that postmen and other employees are now receiving vacations really due to them years ago. A new violet has been discovered in China, at an altitude of 10,000 ft. The species was found by Mr. R. C. Ching, after whom it has been named, while on an expedition in Western China.

The price of a reel of cotton in Britain, which was 3d in 1914, rose as high as lOd in February, 1920. In October, 1921, the price had fallen to (id, and by a recent reduction it now stands at sd.

An ingenious machine for time recording has just been put on the market. It is an automatic door recorder, which furnishes a printed record of the time a door is opened and closed, and by whom.

The greatest known depth of the sea is said to lie 32,088 ft., about 40 miles north of one of the Philippine Islands. At this point the ocean bottom would be about 114 'miles lower than the top of Mount Everest.

Here is a typical joke from the latest issue of that popular weekly magazine “Humour”: Little girl to ancient lady visitor): “Arc >ou very old?”' Visitor: “No dear.” Little Girl: “Have you travelled a great deal ” Visitor: “No, deal. Little girl: “Then when did you get so crumpled?” The result oJ. the recent £l9O competition will shortly be advertised in “Humour.”

“In a land agent’s office in Te Kuiti the other day (says a writer in the King Country Chronicle) I saw two blackberry vines growing through the open window right into the room,” said the Mayor at the the Borough Council meeting the other night. “One was about 6ft. long, and the other four. lhe,\ were strong, healthy vines, with fine large leaves, but they did not seem the best kind of advertisement for the King Country land the agent was trying to sell, yet he let them grow there under the very eyes of his clients.”