NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4432, 27 March 1930, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Complaint is made that the fumes from Leeds, 20 miles disstained glass windows of York Minster are affected by smoke taut. “Do not apply heat, to an apparently drowned person before breathing has been revived,” said Dr. D. E. Brown, New Plymouth, in reference to life-saving methods. The

danger he explained was heart failure caused by (lie blood being sent to the heart without completing circulation IbVougb the lungs. The whales caught this year were in poor condition and const quently a larger number was required to “fill up” the store ships operating in the vicinity of Ross Sea (writes the “Otago Daily Times’’). The leanness of the whales is attributed to the heavy pack ice this season having kept them from their usual feeding grounds in Ross Sea. I lie whaler Sir James Clark Ross and chasers Star VL, VII., and VIII. are reported to have been sold to another Norwegian company, and will not lisli in Ross Sea again. 'LTio.se vessels will lie replaced by a new 18,-000-ton factory ship and three chasers, the building of which will be supervised by Captain Neilson, of the 10. A. Larsen. The habit many people have of scrawling - their names over places they visit is vulgar, hut not without its human interest. And it: is as old as writing. An instance of its antiquity was mentioned, by Lord Moyniham, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons, recently in tlu> course of a lecture. During the Croat War many colonial soldiers were in Egypt, and on the wall of the temple of the Step Pyramid at Sahara, on the banks of the Nile, nor far from Cairo, an Australian had scribbled, “I am the only survivor of my company which fought on Gallipoli. —John Smith, Melbourne, 1017.” The head of the Egyptian Antiquities Department (Mr. Firth), who was accompanying Lord Moyniham on a visit to the Pyramid, pointed out, close tii the Australian's remarks, a line of heiroglypliies that read, “I am the only survivor of my company which fought in Punt, and T have come to worship at tile Temple of my fathers.” Then followed the name and date, the latter being about 3250 B.C. The Step Pyramid, by the by, is the oldest liifinliiii 11 thing in the world, dating proImblv 4000 venrs B.C.