NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3875, 24 November 1928, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

A wind blowing at seventy-six miles an hour produces a pressure of 221 b. per square foot on a tall building. A new comet was discovered on Wednesday at 2 a.m. of magnitude six, that is, it is a bright comet, visible to the naked eye. Its right .ascension is 12hr. Bmin. 28see. and declination 21deg. 42min. south. The right ascension is increasing 20min. of the arc a day and the deincreasing southwards fifty minutes a day. The comet is in . the constellation Corvis (the Crow) about three hours in advance of the sun and therefore may be seen in the early morning. A farmer in a country district not far from Napier learned something the other day about theft. A certain well-known settler had picked some Delicious apples last season for storing away for winter use, and, being called away, left the apples in the orchard and forgot all about them for several days, but when he hurried to get them lie found them gone. Thinking that some member of the family had taken them, he questioned them at night and found no one knew anything about them and so decided that someone passing by had taken them. Recently when digging the garden over a huge rat warren was diseoversd, and to the amazement of everyone, the thieves had been discovered. Every apple had been carried to the warren and the rats had a lovely winter food supply. 'The family had one compensation, for they killed every rat.