HERE AND THERE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16985, 8 March 1923, Page 6

HERE AND THERE.

AN EYE FOR EVERYTHING. NO SCHOOL. Here an election story. wMcfc cornea irom an old Cabinet Minister who was being annoyed by a heckles at one of his political meetings. The subject being debated was education, and the Minister's views did not appeal to the argumentive one. • Now, sair,” he interrupted, “I have a school in my CF e ” But the M.P. would not admit that he had a school in his eye. “ Pardon me,” objected lie, “you have only one pupil!” DESPERATE. “ A certain youth fell in love with a chorus girl, and pestered her with Ins attentions. To escape him eh© threw up her engagement and got a job behind the glove counter of a big West End store. Her admirer found her out. and bought gloves every day for a week. Determined to shake him off. she became a manicurist.” “ Oh: And then, of course, he had his nails manicured every day?” I asked interestedly “Exactly!” replied Miss Thatcher. “ However, I don’t think he will follow her any farther.” “ Why not?” “Localise site’s got employment with a dentist.” A BUSY * PRINCE. The Duke of York. ljke his brother, the heir to the Throne, has been one of the busiest of Princes. His activi-

ties are manifold. He has done everything from driving an engine to representing the King at the Coronation of a foreign monarch. His frienclliness and enthusiasm have made him one of the best loved of Princes. 'Hie Duke lias already a splendid record of service to his country. He was in the Navy at the outbreak of war. aud was present at the Battle of Jutland, being commended in Lord Jellicoo’s dispatches. Later he joined th*» R.A.F. and became n wing-commander. Fond of all kinds of sport, the Duke, although perhaps not such a good horseman as the Prince of Wales, plays cricket, and is a good shot. He is keen on football and is often seen at big Association and Rugby contests On the serious side of public work the Duke has taken an especial interest in the training and welfare of boys. He created with splendid success a seaside camp composed of equal proportions of poor hoys and boys from public schools, and proved that the •classes” can mix with mutual advantage. Hie interest in industrial problems is much greater than many people know. The Duke has visited mines, factories, and workshops all over the country, and has a store of knowledge of industrial conditions which has often surprised employers and employed. • • LADY BETTY’S FATHER

The father of Lady Elisabeth BowesLyon is the Earl of Strathmore, who is the fourteenth of the line. He sits in the House of Lords a 6 Baron Bowes, of the United Kingdom. A son of the thirteenth earl, he is in his sixty-eighth year. When twenty-six he married Cecilia Nina, daughter of the late Rev Charles Cavendish Ben tinck, grandson of the third Duke of Portland. The family seats include Streatlam Castle. Darlington, and Rt Paul’s. Waldenbury, Welwyn. Herts. Patrick Lyon, ninth Baron Glamis, head of the Scottish family -which has held the barony since 1445. was created Earl of Kinghorne in 1606. In Scottish lore it is recorded, according to tradition, that the widow of the fifth lord was burnt as a witch at Edinburgh in 1537. being accused of designs on the life of James Y. The lineage goes hack to Rir John Lyon of Glamis. who married, in 1376. Jean, daughter of Robert 11., King of Scotland. TCE BULLETS. A scheme for irrigation by means of ice instead of water has. says the “ Manchester Guardian.” been serious ly put forward by an ingenious person in Texas. He proposes to employ a rifle-like mechanism to fire a serie? of ice-bullets into the soil. Each bullet is to he directed into the root-system of an individual plant or cluster of plants. The machine itself will be adjusted on a tractor containing a refrigerator that.will keep it perpetually loaded with ice-slugs, something after the fashion of a machine-gnn. When the ice-slug has found lodgment near the root of the plant it will presenth melt arid answer the purpose intended. In ordinary methods of irrigation the greater part of the water finds lodgment at a distance from the plant root, and either soaks into the earth or evaporates into the air. The new plan will prevent this waste, as the water will be applied just where it is needed. The chief drawback to its application will, it is suggested, be the high cost of manufacturing the WTRELESS WONDERS. More wireless wonders is the cry. We oaai now speak to New York, m fact, New York has talked across tli«. 3.200 miles to London by wireless tele phone. Single words aud numbers have previously been spoken, but long messages are now sent over a space ot two hours. They were issued from 195, Broadway, by Mr J. 1. Carty and other directors of* the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and were received by the International Western Electric Company at New Southgate. London. At the London end they were clearly heard in a room with the aid of head ’phones by sixty persons, including Senator Marconi, Sir Evelyn Murrav (G.P.O. Secretarv), Sir A. Shirley Bean. M.P. (president, Associated Chambers of Commerce), and representatives of the Navy and Air Ministry. Throughout, speech was clearly audible, and much louder than an ordinary wired telephone, and it did not vary in volume. It was picked up at New Southgate on a 6ft frame aerial with a four-valve receiving set. three extra, valves being used to increase the signals ?o that they might bo heard by all the sixty peoph . From the British side only telegraphic messagefi could be sent owing to the lack ot a sufficiently powerful telephonic installation but it is hoped that the present ex|>erinient*; will soon enable us to answer America’s telephone calls M- Frank Gill. European chief enpneer of the International Western Electric Company, said: “ Except for cracks from atmospherics, of which present knowledge dees not enable us to get fid. it might have been a wire circuit. The voice of Mr Carty was recognised. January 15 was an historic day in the art of communication.”