NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40035, 5 December 1929, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

While competing in a three-lap motor-cycle handicap race at Brooklands not long ago, Mr. F. C. Kilby was forced to retire through a wasp settling on the engine of the machine and. short-circuiting the tension lead. A verdict that death was due to the poison from cigarette smoking was returned at air inquest, at Hampton, Cheshire, on a licensed victualler. His widow said that he smoked between 50 and 60 cigarettes a day. The latest development in quest of the perfect moving picture is a “natural vision” camera. By means of this a picture as huge as the proscenium arch of any theatre, and giving perfect illusion of depth, can be projected.

, Washable outer clothing for men ancl the open neck were dress reforms urged by Professor Leonard Hill, Director of the Department of Applied Physiology of the National Institute for Medical Research, in his presidential address recently at the Sanitary Inspectors’ Association Conference at Loweseroft.

The Ministry of Transport is to bear 75 per cent, of the. cost of the £OOO,OOO bridge to Haverton Hill, Durham, a. distance of about one and a-half miles. The bridge is to be of the vertical lift type, allowing the centre span to be raised for vessels. It will create as new link between South Tyneside and Scotland.

'Among the exhibits at the recent Model Engineer’s Exhibition in London was a. horizontal engine so small that it is almost impossible to see the working parts-in motion without a magnifying glass It is only a quarter of an inch long and is worked by compressed air. A hair from the head of the wife of the model-maker forms the driving belt. It is possible that before the end of the year the 19,000 creditors of the Charing Cross Bank, which failed in 1910, with a loss of nearly £1,700,000, and ruined many small investors, will receive information concerning the payment of a dividend. It was stated at the office of the trustees that negotiations are proceeding for a. sale to the Canadian Government of the Atlantic Quebec and Western Railway, in which the trustees of the bankestate hold a considerable interest.