NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1925, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

RATS’ NIGHT RAID

LONDON, September 4. Rats and mice invaded the British and Imperial trade exhibit at Wembley during Wednesday night and feasted on the oatmeal, cheese, sugar, bread, and other articles, of food displayed as a warning against the vermin peril. The exhibit represented an imaginary night scene in a grocer's shop window, and dummy rats, mice and other vermin were shown attacking unwrapped loods.

The Wembley rats reinforced their counterfeit brethren aml "a tew; of the food, thus driving home the moral which the exhibit had been designed to convey -t hat foodstuffs should lie sold in tightly wrapped and branded

WOMAN WHO CHANGED HER MIND.

LONDON. Sept. I. If you buy a railway ticket and do not use il your money is refunded. 11 you buy a marriage license and the bride will not marry you, you lose your money. A bridegroom, who while on his way to a Fulham church to he married on Wednesday, received a telegram from his bride curtly intimating that her a licet ions had changed and that she was not going to be married, has made application to an ecclesiastical register office in Doctors’ Commons E.C. for the return of his money. The license was obtained last week, and all arrangements had been made. For the Faculty Office license 0 bridegroom paid £2, IPs ol tins sum being for the official .stamp. When the bridegroom's request for the return of his inoinoy was received, the officials were astounded. No money can lie returned by tile ecclesiastical offices after a license lias been issued, as the matter is entered in the official calendar. All the hridegnoom ran claim from the State is the 10s stamp duty.

II he obtains a declaration, from the vicar of the church that his license has not been used, and takes it with liis license to Somerset House, where Inmakes another declaration. the authorities may refund tho IPs.