NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1041, 19 December 1912, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Within the last few weeks in a certain chuich the following couples have been married: — “George Edward Butcher and Amelia Mutton; Frank Shears and Mary Wbeatear; Thomas Wells and Maud Waters ; Albert Rose and Hilda Thorne; Edward Battle and Phoebe Cannon.” A clergyman informed a friend that he had recently baptised three brothers by the Biblical ni.mes of “Shem, Ham and Japhet.” Curiosity led me, says the writer, to ask what their surname was, and the reply came, “Smith.”

An amazing civil action was heard at Napier a few days ago. Miss Coe sued a young man named Edward Mullauy lor ,£3, the value of a ring she had lent him, and which he failed to return or make good. In the course of evidence, it transpired that the young man saw the young lady, who is only 19, home from a dance, and their affectionate natures resulted in the exchange of rings, the young lady forgetting that her golden circle was not hers, but belonged to her mother. That fact caused the trouble. Mullauy said he lost the ring, and would replace it, but never made his promise good. Miss Coe admitted that they were “skylarking” on the way home. Mullany, in evidence, said he would have replaced the ring had the old man Coe not threatened to put the matter in the hands of the police. That “got his monkey up.” He walked home with the girl in the “usual way,” baud in hand. The Magistrate held that as defendant took the ring off the girl’s finger he would have to pay for his experience, and gave judgment for the full amount, plus costs.

la what may, perhaps, be described as a lucid interval between the exicted discussions on the Home Rule question in the House of Commons, one of the Scotch members, the Marquis of Tullibardiue, raised an important question regarding gallant little Wales, one, it may be noted, having nothing to do with Welsh Disestablishment. The noble Marquis asked the Chancellor of the Kxchequor if he could stale why the daffodil had been used on the insurance stamps instead of the leek, as emolematic nf the Principality of Wales, Before Mr Uoyd George could reply Mr Uevvell Williams, member for Carmarthen district, interposed with the further question if the right honourable geutlemau was aware that the Welsh word for daffodil was Ceuinen Pedr “ which,” he said, being interpreted, is Peter’s leek, and that it was due to a blunder of Shakespeare or Baeou —(loud laughter) —or some equally ignorant Saxon, that the Welsh national emblem was changed from a charming flower to a stinking vegetable.” (I*oud laughter).