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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 168, 13 April 1926, Page 3

Bangor and Holyhead have celebrated the centenary of the Menai suspension bridge. The bridge was opened by the Duke of Wellington. A Great Western Railway signalman of -18 years of age, has just obtained the B.Sc. degree of London University after three years of study. Some two seasons ago a swarm of bees took up their quarters high up on the face of the Masonic 1 einplc in Bell Street, Wanganui (writes the correspondent of the “Lyttelton Times”). There they built up a quantity of comb and although _ exposed to rhe weather remained throughout the winter. They renewed their activities again in the spring, and all went well until recently when a portion of the hive collapsed, and was precipitated on to the steps below, where it lay shattered into small pieces. Two young men on Tuesday evening, who bought a bottle of beer, and some hot fish and chips for sup--per, sat down on the steps to. do full justice to the evening meal. The bees resented this and agonised yells attracted all in the-neighbourhood to the scene, including some police officers, who thought that a murder was being committed at the very doors of the station. The voung men hurriedly discarded their supper and bolted across the street. In their baste they did not notice a corrugated iron fence opposite and crashed into it. 1 hey were taken to the house of a kindly restdent who applied ths old-time remedy. <y' blue