NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1077, 18 March 1913, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

A protective serum for whooping cough is claimed to have been discovered by Dr. Nicolle, director of the Pasteur Institute in Tunis.

“Alvin Hornberger, who was wanted lor passing forged notes, was traced by the marks of his false teeth in an unfinished cheese sandwich,” Guess where this happened. “America?” Right!

While a Mrs Dowding (28), of Brixton (England), was displaying her wedding dress to some friends she tripped over a carpel and struck her head heavily on the floor, death occurring before a doctor could be summoned.

At an inquest at Masterton recently one of the most remarkable wills that can surely be on record in the world was produced. It was written on a field-glass case and the butt of a rifle. The writing was carefully attested, and it will be used as the last testament of the deceased, no other will having been left.

“Another statement has been made,” said Mr Massey at Ashburton, “that the party in power has not a majority in the Parliament of the country. have at the present moment a majority of not less than nine in the House. Sometimes I wonder bow many our majority really is, when I hear the letters announcing majorities of 25 and 30, but will satisfy myself with nine, and it is an increasing majority, because there are men on the other side of the House who feel that their proper place is with the Government, aud I lieve those men will be with us yet, and some of these are not unknown in Ashburton.”

A startling surprise awaited several men who clambered over the rocks and entered the cabin of the battered Danish steamer G. Koch, which was lately wrecked near Aberdeen with the loss of seven lives. As they forced open the cabin door there was a burst of song, as if it were summer time. Birds were singing merrily, all oblivious of the roar of the waves, and the crashing of wreckage against the rocks. The party found about a dozen canaries in cages, their feathers dry and unruffled. Standing in the cabin they found the ship’s dog, a retriever, which had to be forcibly taken ashore. No bodies of drowned sailors were found.

The oldest married couple in Germany, named Fedderson, live on the island of Sylt, off the coast of Schleswig. Both husband and wife are 107 years old. Formerly a forester, the husband is now (says the Mail) an inspector of the dykes along the coast, and he works every day. The couple, who enjoy good health, recently celebrated the eightieth anniversary of their wedding.

A remarkable feat has just been performed by three children, James, Molly and Willie Philip, aged respectively eleven, eight and six years (says the Otago Daily Times). They started from their home in Queenstown on Wednesday morning, ostensibly to attend school. No great alarm was felt when the children failed to put in an appearance at lunch time, but later search was made in all directions without avail. About 8 p.tn. it was ascertained that they bad been seen passing the shipping office and making along the road that leads to the head of the lake. It was then remembered that the two youngest, whose home is at Glenorchy, had on several occasions said in their childish way that they “would walk to Glenorchy one of these days.” Consternation ensued. Crightou (25 miles distant) was communicated with by telephone, and it was found, that they had been seen passing there at 5.30 p.m., “going strong.” A rescue party set out on horseback from Glenorchy about midnight, and after riding about six miles came upon the children huddled together in the fern, where they had been sleeping until rudely awakened by the men’s voices calling to them in the darkness. They were a little afraid, very cold, and very hungry.