NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1762, 8 December 1917, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

After three members of the firm of E. and E. Bull, furriers, of London, had been fined £5 each at Old Street, for failing to make a proper list of employees, one of. the partners,- Leo. Bull, was sent for trial on a charge of attempting to bribe a policeman. It was alleged that he offered the constable a £5 note “to make it right,” and the officer replied, “I shall not tell lies against you, neither will I tell lies for you.” Lecturing in Auckland on the subject of “Unpreparedness for Motherhood and the Best Age for Marriage,” Dr. Truby King said he thoroughly understood the responsibility in giving advice on the age at which a woman should marry. Looking at the matter from all standpoints he could only think that early marriage was best, and in his opinion eighteen for the women and twenty-two for the men were the most suitable ages, both from, the point of view of health, morals and the nation. A remarkable promise made 25 years ago has just been redeemed at Home. When Sir James and Lady Pender, of Donhead St. Andrew', Wiltshire, celebrated their silver wedding (in 1892)7 the latter presented a number of the local children with threepenny-bits, and promised each of them that if they returned them at the celebration of her golden wedding each would receive a half-sovereign. Nearly 30 of the recipients returned their threepenny-bits when the golden wedding was recently celebrated, and each received a half-sovereign in accoi’dance with Lady Pender’s promise. She has had the three-penny-bits gilded, and wears them as a necklace. “You have not the faintest conception of what an artillery strafe is like,” declared Chaplain Captain Blamires in the course of a lecture. “You cannot possibly have. It seems almost incx-edible, but so great is their number that the hiss of the flying shells sometimes drowns the roar of their discharge'. If. you could take every thunderstorm you have ever seen, and all the earthquakes you have ever felt, mix them up and condencc them into one minute, and then continue that for an hour or two, then you might have some faint idea!” After reading the .above, one can better understand why so many of our gallant men return suffering from the fell disease unknown until the present war —shell shock. The Chronicle says a mystery in connection with a missing £SO note was cleared up the other day. Nearly a year ago, the principal of a certain educational institution at Wanganui had forwarded to him, under registered post, a £SO note, and after the letter had been signed for by one of the attendants at the school, it was placed in a letterrack, whence it disappeared. The matter was imported to the police, and although enquiries were made, there w r as no result, and as time went on the money was regarded as a dead loss. Last week some boys were bird-nesting near the school, when they discovered a small tin with a £SO note inside, and it was duly returned to the principal of. the institution. It is surmised that one of the pupils stole the registered letter, and on finding a £SO note inside, was frightened to endeavour to cash it, and therefore hid it in the spot where it was accidentally discovered.