HERE AND THERE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18012, 24 November 1926, Page 8

HERE AND THERE.

AN EYE FOR EVERYTHING. “ Heme Brew ” in England. Private making of alcohol is a much cultivated industry in the United States now. but the same thing goes on in England, though not necessarily against the law. There are. in fact, more than 3000 people in England who have claimed and obtained licenses to brew beer for their own consumption If the ” brewer ” lives in a cottage assessed at less than £8 a year he does not have to pay duty. 2* Historic Livery Companies. In opening an exhibition of works of art, belonging to the Livery Companies of the City of London. Mr Reginald M'Kenna said that the Livery Companies had been established for the greater good and profit of the people and had continued through a period of 600 years. Originally started for the protection and advancement of their own -several crafts, the companies. fostered and developed every industry, and for some time the trade of London was concentrated in their hands. k Emperor Hadrian's Head. Speaking at a recent meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, the president. Dr George Mac donald, referred the colossal head of the Emperor Hadrian, found in the Thames, near London Bridge, in 1834. This must have formed part of a statue which stood in some part of Roman London. Dr Macdonald hazarded the suggestion that the statue was a memento of a visit which it is .known that the Emperor paid to Loudon This head is to be seen in the British Museum. « S& X Europe's Greatest Port. I low many people, if asked which was Europe's greatest port from the point of view of tonnage, would give the correct answer? Yet! as it appears from figures dealt with by the chief ports of the world in 1923, Ant werp occupied first place in Europe, and is exceeded in the world only by New York. London is third, and the others in order are Rotterdam. Hamburg, Sha'nghai. Liverpool, Buenos Aires, and Cherbourg. « x Journey in Canoe. An unusual sight was seen in the Pool in Paris w’hen a couple of young Frenchmen turned up in. their canoe, which they had paddled from Rouen. The route had been up the Seine to the junction with the Oise and along the St Quentin and Nord Canals to Calais. They had paddled across the Channel to Dover and had hugged the coast thence to the Nore. si *A Seasick Animals.

It is reported that a number of animals consigned from East Africa to England for the London Zoo died from sea-sickness on the voyage. Strangely enough, an animal, declared by a well-known South African animal dealer to be the world s worst sailor, survived the trip, while six monkeys were fatally overcome with mal d* frier. That animal was the porcupine. Porcupines, both African and Indian, have stood tbe rigotirs of sea trips, but not many. The animal dealer referred to above once included six of these strange animals in a consignment. be dispatched to Hamburg. He accompanied them on the first part of the trip*—from Durban around the coast to Cape Town—and no sooner had the ship cleared the harbour than they became horribly sea-sick, although the sea was almost as smooth as a mill-pond. A little later the ship commenced to roll, and next morning not one of the six porcupines had the courage to fare it* breakfast squarely, One by one they died.