NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1018, 14 March 1912, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

A “larky” cab driver of Pahiatua being the other day in a bar playfully called upon a Chinaman who was delivering vegetables there to shout. The Celestial, however, showed no disposition to do so and cabby thereupon struck him a blow under each optic. The magistrate, being subsequently called upon to “deal it out,” required the assailant to pay 40s or go to gaol for 48 hours.

Mr Richard Came, the Chicago iron master, who during his lile used to indulge in constant diatribes against college life, which, he said, led young men to drink and dissipation, has bequeathed ,£250,000 to trustees for the benefit of women deserted by their husbands. The money will be expended in building country homes and otherwise assisting women and children who have been deserted.

The Waikato Argus says an interesting incident occurred at the territorial camp at present being held at Annandale, near Morriusville, on Sunday last. Five socialists arrived on the scene, armed with sheaves of socialistic literature, and when requested to leave asserted their right to be present —the unalienable right that the land belongs to the people. The discussion was not prolonged to any great length, The question of title was disposed of in a much more expeditious manner than that usually adopted by the Native l,and Court, the guard was called out, and with fixed bayonets the would-be orators were escorted to the King’s highway, where they were at liberty to spout all day, concerning militarism, monarchy and other subjects dear to the Socialist’s heart, and no doubt the former came in for special attention.