NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1929, Page 5

NEWS AND NOTES.

MIDGET’S LOSS. Miss Mattie Cockburn, who recently returned to Greenock after completing a tour of the English fairgrounds as a midget, has been robbed of her sayings, about £SO. Miss Mattie was one of the most successful members of a midget troupe. It was her first engagement and she managed to save £SO on the tour. She had money in an attache case which wris placed in a locked drawer in her lodgings. " i.T KILLED BY MATCH STALK, i A verdict to’ the effect that ho from misadventure as the result of swallowing a partly-chewed mat<sh stalk was returned at the inquest, Birmingham, on Alfred Evans (SU), tool-setter, of Bordesley Green. '-It was stated that Evans, with the object of curing himself of the halbit-of chewing tobacco, used sometimes to chew , a match -stalk,;, and .ftifccig- hjs death a match stalk" was' fobnd m Ins body. This had caused a puncture and an abscess. " r ; BULL IN BAR. u. There was a scatter in the public bar 'in Fbfcheringhanf’s ’ Ho£el, Of Taree, when a, huge .bull entered thb doorway and idled up to the counter^ The barman, who was pulling a mjp£ of beer, fled and left the tap Next tile owner of the beast enteral hurriedly," after heHiatl dismounted from liis pony, which he had left loose in the street. But further thrills were to follow, for the pony then trotted into the bar. Amid much noise and confusion, the two animals were at last hunted from the premises. MAYOR ATTACKS JAZZ. The Mayor of Southend, .Councillor R,. T. Baer, speaking at the Southend Symphony Orchestra concert, remarked that good music was mere appreciated now than ever before in England. “You., ,ask,” -he continued; “ .‘What about That infernal jazz V ’ Jazz I Lad ta-lk. about, be 4 . cause ’"I loathe $i : and • %Uvays have loathed it; ’ It' is lit is li-n abomination of soiindv-’and 1 . .tli'e. sooner the English peapl_e ; get over.'this night 4 mare of jazz the better.” - f ' *• ' „ FIRE COMEDY. The driver of a “baby” car provided comic relief at a fire at Southall, Middlesex. He was held up with other traffic by a water hose lying across the road. He got out and lifted the front wheels of his car over the hose. Then he pushed the car forward, lifted over the back wheels and drove on, leaving the bigger cars held up behind him. The fire, which began at the back of a fishmonger’s shop, damaged the backs of three shops. * Firemen found Mr Janies Connor, aged 70, asleep in bed in a smoked filled room.