NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1097, 17 September 1912, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

One day last week a resident of Ashburton was intending to have a bath, and for this purpose a number of saucepans were used to boil the water. These were left standing on the stove. Among them happened to be, uniortunately, one containing a stew, which was being cooked for a meal. Thinking that it also contained hot water, the boarder carried it to the bathroom and empied the contents into the bath,

when, to his horror, he discovered that he bad wasted the dinner. The epithets hurled at him by the other members of the household must be imagined.

A story was told concerning the late General Booth by Mr James Gilmour at the memorial meeting in Sydney. The object was to illustrate the statement that the late leader of the Salvation Army was not the grim, stern old man that some people fancied him to have been, and it was repeated as one of the General’s own yarns. He had been delivering a lecture in a university town in England, and a professor, whose guest the General was, was in the hall when the Army people were going round amongst the audience. “Sir,” said a Scotch lassie to the professor, “have you given your heart to God?” “Don’t you know,” replied the pedagogue, “that I’m professor of anthropology at the university ?” Pityingly, but with a brightening look of hope, the lassie replied, “Ah, that’s a’ richt; the Lord Jesus can save the verra worst o’ sinners.”

A case presenting pathetic features was heard at the Sydney Police Court last week, when a youth named Albert Osborne, was charged under the Defence Act with failing to attend his drills as a cadet. He informed the Court that both his father and mother were dead—the latter only tour months —and that he and a brother were the sole support of a family of eight brothers and sisters, all under 16 years of age. He said he had a good character irom his employer, but his hours of labour were long, and when he reached home at night he was tired out, and hardly able to perform the duties which developed upon him of looking after the house and its young inmates until they went to bed. The Magistrate admitted that on the statement of the defendant the case was a hard one, and he was sorry lor the position in which he was placed, but he had to administer the Act. He ordered the lad to make up the deficiency in his drills, and pay 6s costs.