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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1706, 22 December 1919, Page 6

Norman Ross, who is reputed to bo the greatest swimmer in the world, and who belongs to America, has been invited by the Australian Swimming Association to take part: in some championship races. He is at present in Sydney, and will also visit Melbourne, and Brisbane, and is due back ill New Zealand next, .March. He will then visit the cities and '.principal towns. Ross, who held a commission in the American Aviation Corps, won all tho championships at the inter-Allied sports at Paris.

Tho Suva correspondent of the Auckland Star relates that on Mr Clement Wragge writing to the Suva paper that tidal waves and earthquakes, not necessarily in the Pacific, might occur on December 17 owing- to the. position of the planets, there was instantly a" rush tx> insure against these dangers. In Jivo days the sum of £40,000 was secured*' through local agents, with the demand unsupplied. Specially strong shutters were built on shot) fronts on the sea front, and the wholo place was full of expectancy and dread, although some scoffed, and one resident cabled Mr Wragge offering- to wager £IOO that noth- j iug would happen.