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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 214, 24 August 1927, Page 4

Do You Know ? Test your general knowledge by supplying answers to the following four questions. The correct answers will be published in our next issue and a comparison should prove interesting. A further series of questions and answers will be published daily. Who (2) What is the world’s largest fresh-water fish, and where does it live? (3) What is a mongoose? (4) When did the “School Journal’’ come into existence? Answers to yesterday’s questions: (1) W. B. Mcllveney, Inspector of Police. (2) Nelson was buried in a coffin made from the mainmast of a French battleship. (3) Phi Beta Kappa is the name of the oldest college fraternity in the U.S.A. It was founded in 1776. ;(4) William Karl Rontgen’s most famous discovery was the X-ray. He received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1901 and died in 1923.

At the Supreme Court at Invercargill, before Mr Justice Sim, there was a lengthy list of criminal cases. Tryphena Clifford Rae, on a charge of murdering her four children on April 11 at Kaiwera, was ordered to be detained in a mental asylum. George Gardiner, on a fturge of robbery with violence at Bluff, was acquitted. In the case of Andrew Moffat, for alleged mansulaugliter as the result of a motor accident, the jury returned a no bill. A HEN DOESN’T QUIT SCRATCH ING —because worms arc scarce. But there are times when eggs are dear all the same. Preserve a generous supply now while they are cheap for tlie dear season. Use Whittome’s Egg Preservative—strong, sure, economical. At all grocers.—(Advt.)