NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 920, 19 November 1910, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

A minister who has been doing missionary work in India recently returned to New York for a visit. He was a guest at a well-known hotel, where everything pleased him except the absence of the very torrid sauces and spices to which he had become accustomed in the Far East. Fortunately he had brought with him a supply of his favourite condiments, and, by arranging with the head waiter, these were placed on his table. One day another guest saw the appetising bottle on the neighbour’s table and asked the waiter to give him some of “ that sauce.” “lam sorry,” said the waiter, “ but it is the private property of this gentleman.” The minister, however, overheard the other’s request, and told the waiter to pass the bottle. The stranger poured some ot the mixture on his meat and took a liberal mouthful. Alter a moment he turned with tears in his eyes to the expectant minister and said: “You’re a minister of the gospel ?” “ Yes, sir.” “ And you preach hell and damnation?” “Yes,” admitted the minister. “ Well, you’re the first minister I ever met who carried samples.” Regent street had a spasm of mild excitement the other afternoon (writes a correspondent ol the Daily Chronicle). A tall lady attired in the very latest thing in hobbles, suddenly appeared opposite the Picadilly Hotel. The lady was fair of countenance. She was surmounted by a hat of beehive design with egret feather pointing to the zenith, and wore sleeves cut off short at the elbows. But it was the hobble that finished the picture. This was a baud of some five or six inches in width, ot rich colouring, that effectively bound the black silk dress an inch or two below the knees. Several inches of open-work stocking and a pair of high heeled shoes were delicately visible. In thirty seconds she was the head of an interested and delighted procession. Away towards Oxford Circus she hobbled, a nd the crowd lined up and let her pass, and then fell in behind or trotted along, admiring the way she did it. Opposite Conduit street, however, she. had had enough, and, swiftly tacking across the road, she sought cover in a large shop. It took three policemau to guard the entrance.