NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1051, 1 June 1912, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Mr Lawrence, of Massachussets, in a letter to the New York Reader, says that as a result of the recent strikes, when persons were killed by the police charges, some are standing their trial for inciting a riot. The Socialist organisations declare that if these men are found guilty a complete change will occur in the methods of the Socialists throughout the United States. Henceforward bombs and bullets will be used against society until justice is achieved.

As illustrating the hardships of the way-back settlers (says the Auckland Star), the following example which came under the notice of the Auckland Band Board on its journey from Hokianga to Dargaville, is worth noting. The members of the Board called at a settler’s home on the roadside, and in the course of conversation which followed, this fact came to light. The children of the house, in order to get to school in the winter time, had to get up and catch their horse by lantern light, ride 11 miles to school, over roads that are indiscribable and dangerous, ride ix miles on the return journey, and very often would not reach home until 7 or 8 o’clock at night. The anxiety of the parents under these conditions, and the disadvantages to child life, may be imagined by their more fortunate countrymen.

On the front verandah of Mr V. Benjamin’s house at St. Kilda, Meloourne, one evening last week, the domestic servant, Peggie Secour, was discovered lying bound, and with a serviette tied tightly across her mouth. Neither Mr nor Mrs Benjamin was at home, but to Mrs Myer, a neighbour, who made the discovery, the woman stated that two men had entered the front door, and after having bound and gagged her, made off with some articles of jewellery. The police were communicated with, and were quickly on the scene. During a search of the house, the missing jewellery, valued at about £l2, was discovered under a sola. Later the servant confessed that her story about the housebreakers was not true, and that she had bound herself. Frequent visits to pictureshows had influenced her to create a sensation.

An American lady was recently in Loudon tells a good story (writes Sir Henry Lucy in the Sydney Morning Herald). Her husband, one ol the modest millionaires of the United States, following the fashion of his class, spends a considerable proportion of his surplus income in works of art. Tne lady being in New York, heard ol a sale by auction which included a particularly tempting vase. Inquiring the probable price she was told that it would not be less than She wrote to her husband in Chicago, giving a glowing account oi the treasure and asking him to telegraph her if he were disposed to pay so much. Fromptiy came the answer : “No price too high.” There was a duck; of a* husband. Trusting implicitly in her taste and judgment, a thousand dollars here or there was nothing to him. jubilantly repairing to the auction room she became, at a cost of the pleased possessor of me vase. Sne lost no time in communicating the good news to her husband, and received a scorching reply. What he had telegraphed was, “No. Price too hign.”