GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1922, Page 11

GENERAL NEWS.

“Cold water is one of the best stimulants we have. We, should bathe every day in cold said Dr. Truby King in a lecture at Wellington.

Referring to the benefits of hydroelectric power, Mr. Vigor Brown told a. Napier audience the other evening that 25 per sent, of the people of Christchurch who use electric power for lighting pay only 2s fid per month, and 35 per cent, pay less than ss.

The Canterlmrv District Rail wav Committee has decided to write to the department suggesting that a motor-driven railway carriage should be placed at the disposal of the traffic manager in Christchurch for use as an experiment on branch lines.

“You have earned nothing since 1907, you are earning nothing at the present time, and yet you run up an account of £Bo—it will be encouraging such practice if I refuse an order,” said Mr. J. H. Salmond, S.M., to a debtor at the Magistrate’s Court, Morrinsville.

Frederick Lee Earl was found guilty in Melbourne of the manslaughter of Lexie Gellie, a girl of two years, who was knocked down by a motor-car on October 21 in Inkerman street, St. Kilda. The Government analyst identified hairs found on a rod beneath the car as having ccme from the child’s head. Various witnesses stated that the car was travelling at 30 miles an hour when the accinent occurred, and that the driver did not pull up. About eighteen months ago an interestin'?’ carving evidently the lintel of a pre-historic building, with characteristics suggestive of Mongolian origin, was unearthed in the Awanui swamp, near Ka taia. North Auckland and seemed as an exhibit for the Auckland Museum. There was widespread speculation as to the probable history of the specimen, and in the hope ■ f tliro-Xviur- light on the matter the museum authorities have s/ince had u con-ude'. T.nc Amount of oxjiloration •arriod put in the swamp in the hope of (Psc. vering further relic.-; that woulo elnc'date the mystery (states the New Zealr nd HorakD, Probings weri‘ made in various parts of the drained area upon a somewhat extensive scale. Up to date, however, nothing lian been brought vo I’oht -h'i -i.---.’ .xn’a’ii how. <, ( r by what race, the lintel W'as dep Kited.