NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3783, 24 April 1928, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

A newly-tapped hot spring in Niederbreisig, on the bank of the Rhine between Boun and Coblenz, maintains an uninterrupted gush of hot water richly impregnated with carbonic acid gas. It is the biggest geyser of its kind in Europe.

Wjbat is claimed to be the deepest electric furnace in the world has just been put into operation in a South African mine. This surface, which is bping worked at a depth of 6300 ft., has been installed for the heating of carbon drill steel. i Australia is about 24 times as large as England, Scotland, Ireland and Wiales together. The population is one-eighth of the population of these four countries —that is, two pepole to the square mile instead of 628 to the square mile as in England and Wales. Excavations in a gravel pit near St. Georgen have brought to light numerous shards of baked, unglazed pottery, originally parts of jugs. The figure of an animal has also been found. The remains come fro man early Celtic Christian settlement.

The accidental locking of a pair of handcuffs prevented an actress taking her part in a London theatre recently. During an interval she slipped on the handcuffs to test them, and then found the key had been mislaid. Her understudy had to finish the play for her. Every person who takes up the cards at a game of whist holds one out of .635,013,559,600 possible hands. If a man could be engaged dealing cards at the rate of one deal a minute, day and night, for a million years, he would not exhaust the possibly variations of the cards. '

‘ Margaret O’Connor, aged 16, who was injured by a fall on Wednesday while pillion riding on a motor-cycle in Christchurch, died last evening without .regaining consciousness. 'She was yiding behind Trevor Moss, when the mo-tor-cycle ran into a heap of dirt on the road, and capsized. She suffered severe head injuries. Arrested following a minor collision on a highway ne'ar Hawera on Easter Saturday, George Destival Gordon, described as an orehardist, of Hastings, pleaded guilty before Mr. Barton, S.M., at Hawera yesterday to a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a motor-ear.’ A fine of £25 was imposed, defendant’s license also being suspended for three months.

“You are an old rascal and should have done to you in person what you did to the dog,” said Mr. Mosley, yesterday morning at Christchurch when convicting and fining John Owen Rowe, a retired farmer, of Spreydon on a charge of committing an unreasonable act by tethering a collie dog behind a fast-m'oving vehicle and so causing the dog unnecessary suffering. He was fined £4.

A writer in an American paper ,refers to Maoriland’s idol, Tom Heeney, as a, “squat, corrugatedribbed granite-jawed, super-cou-rageous slugger, who could not hit a barn door if it happened to be swinging.” This particular American writer seems to be rather peeved that Heeney upset his confident predictions that Delaney would win.

The emotional character of pre-sent-day films and plays and novels is responsible for an enormously increased death rate from heart disease, is the significant declaration of Dr. Strickland Goodall, of the Institute of Hygiene. He added that, whereas a few years ago the age of sudden death was between 50 and 60, the age was becoming alarmingly younger. The death roll from heart disease had increased 400 per cent, latterly. He recalled that,there were no fewer than twelve deaths of listenersin to the Tunney-Dempsey fight broadcast.