NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1923, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

AIAEIMAGE. TANGLE. COLOGNE. Sept. 28. Inhabitants of the village of llolienberg, near Cologne, are absorbed iu working out the complexities of two local matrimonial adventures. A year ago, a (iB-years-o!d widower, married the village belle, a girl of 22. who became the step-mother of her husband's -lb-years-old sen. This son mai'i led the mother of the girl, by which union his own father homme Ids son-in A few day* ago the 22-years-old wife presented her (iS-years-ohl husband with a daughter. It was clear that the baby’s grandmother is also her sister-in-law. lint if, as will probably happen, the baby’s grandmother has a child by its stop-brother, some still move exciting complications will arise. THE MAN IN THE SUN. LONDON. September 29. At Willesden yesterday Sidney I’hilj lip*, of 1 .nrden-rond. Acton. \V.. was lined 10-. .for sketching a face in a picture' of the sun on n health poster at AYillesden Station. 3’l l i 11<s said he was waiting for a train and it struck him that the poster would he improved if there was a face in the sun. The Magistrate: I have hoard of :- man in the moon, hut I ft id net know that there was supposed to he another in tlie sum. Apparently you turned the sun into the nmoii in the middle "I I the day whi.-li i: scarcely daylight j saving, it it ? AN ACTRESS. LONDON. Sept. 2D Frances .Margaret Smith. 30. convicted at l.ivi-rpoi-l ye-U-rduy ter obtaining money by false- pretences, was stated by a police insoector to bo a woman who apparently could cry whenever she desired. She then, stopped crying, but began again when the magistrate .-entenced her to three month*’ hard labour.