NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1038, 2 September 1911, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The story of an assault, with details of a lurid nature, was told in the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington the other day. The parties were married women and neighbours, and one made an application to have the other bound over to keep the peace. A constable was called as a witness, ' and on being asked by counsel what he knew about the assault, produced a packet of hair as a relic of the struggle. The Magistrate, however, refused to examine the trophy.

A rather remarkable incident occured at Napier recently, A native, driving a motor car after dark, mistook a railway crossing for the main road and, spinning round iuto the rails, found his vehicle speedily brought to a halt in the cattle stop. A train was almost due at the crossing, and the native had the presence of mind to detach one of the motor car lamps and race along the line to meet the approaching train to warn the driver. The engine was brought to a standstill, then uncoupled, and by its assistance the car was pulled out ot the way. The result was the detention of that train and another train waiting to cross it at Hastings station. But a much more serious disaster might easily have happened.