Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 1 December 1892, Page 2

Notes and Events.

A warning to church goers comes from London, so you had better not sleep daring the nermon, most awful consequences might ensue. It is recorded how three men were taken into custody for being found asleep at the Alhambra. An energetic police officer considered that men who would go to sleep there must have been drunk, though no proof of any liquor having been served to them was forthcoming, so he " ran em'in." If for sleeping there why not for sleeping in church ? It makes you careful. A man got fourteen days imprisonment, without the option of a fine for behaving rudely to a. Rector's wife at church. Ihe Rector said he saw the defendant in church making grimaces at his wife during the whole of the service ! it was exceedingly rude, and as this was the third complaint the punishment served him right, | unless the grimaces were only facial contortions to keep himself awake. ! On the word of a London magistrate we learn that in that city a lawyer will give advice which will not cost much, it is satisfactory, but five unfortunate Zulu singers had their doubts. They applied to Mr Plowden for advice as to an agreement and the following conversation is reported : — Mr Plowden said if the agreement had been bi'oken the applicant should consult a lawj r er. — The Applicant : A lawyer will want money. — Mr Plowden : Not much. (Laughter.) I suppose you have come here to get advice without money. — The applicant was again advised to con mil- a lawyer, the magistrate stating that he had not the time to study the terms of the agreement. The largest cheque (£27,270) ever received by any company for insurance on the life of one person has just been given to the New York Life Office, by Mr James J. Hill, as a single premium for a £20,000 life option endowment consol, with a life income guaranteed 'at £2,480 annually from age 64, besides full participation in the company's surplus. Mr Hill is president of the Great Northern Railway, and other railway connection in the northwest and Manitoba. In a similar transaction, the Havemeyer family paid in 1890 a single premium of I £115,669 for five policies of £20,000 each, with guaranteed incomes beginning in ten years. Both of these payments were up to that time the largest ever paid 'for life insurance, and could only have been secured on the Mutual Life's new policy. __________