NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1929, Page 6

NEWS BY MAIL.

STREET STVu, HUNT. ANIMAL LEAPS WALL TO ESCAPE TRAFFIC.- , LONDON, Nov. 13. There was an exciting chase'of a stag through the streets of Marlow yesterday. The animal had been'chased to the town from Wokingham a distance of nearly 15 miles, during a run of tbe Berkshire and Buckinghamshire Farmers’ staghounds. - It -swain the river above Marlow bridge and then dashed into .High-street, but becoming frightened by the traffic jumped-a G-ft. "all into Higginson Park. ' After running through some ha,ckgardens tile stag again tried to swim the river. It became exhausted midway across and was caught by a boatman. who'brought if • to land. GASSED 'PARENTS. CHILD WHO THOUGHT THEY WERE ASLEEP. BERLIN. November 13. - Erna Spetli, who is seven years old, got out of her little bed in the cosy kitchen of her parents’ flat in an 'unfashionable quarters of Berlin, dressed herself, and ran out to got her father’s newspaper. . , . . She came back and woof on tiptoe into her parents’ bedroom with the pap,or, but they were both asleep. ■Their room was rather close, so she opened the window, and went Out again softly so as not to disturb them. fn tho afternoon she was so lonely that she went to see a neighbour. But first slm wrote a note and left it on the kitchen table so that her parents should not be frightened if they found her out. When Erna came back they were still asleep. JEALOUSY QUARRELS. This morning a friend came to the bouse to see her father and Erna told her he was asleep. The friend noticed ihe little thing looking as though she had been crying, and so she went to fetch her grandmother. The old woman went into the bedroom, and when she saw her son and (laughter-in-law she burst into tears. Enin’s mother was dead and her lather in sensible.

Tlic mother had :t jonlons disposition and lior jealousy liad led to quarrels between lliem. It was perhaps during: a. quarrel that one of them had opened a >fus Lap in the bedroom.