GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1910, 3 December 1918, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

BRAIN DEFUSED TO WORK,

It was staled of George Hanley, 43, a bank dork, of Swinton, near Manchester, who was charged at Wallasey with alt templing to commit suicide in the Mersey, that he was heard shouting for help at two o'clock on Wednesday morning, and was found clinging to (ho Seacombe Ferry stage. He said he jumped into the water at half-past eleven, and had been there ever since. He stated in court fiiat lie had been working at high pressure for four years, and had got to the end of his tether, and his brain refused to work any longer. He did not know how he got to Liverpool, and remembered nothing until he found himself clinging "to the chains of the landing-stage. He was handed over to his relatives.

GERMAN STOWAWAY,

A mysterious German, who was staled to have landed in Britain from America, was brought up a I Marylehoue and remanded. The accused was Karl Wilhelm Creidrich Giiiiip. a well-lmili ami wellspoken man of 58 years of age, wearing a Mellon overcoal, and described as a German labourer. He was charged lhal, being sin ,a lien enemy, bo landed in Ihe Bnited Kingdom without the permission of Ihe Secretary of Slate, in contravention of the Aliens’ Rest rid ion Order. The accused attended the Kmlish Town police station for the purpose of registering himself, lie w;vs a German, he said, and had just come from America. He said he was born :it Swuenmund. Prussia, of Prussian parents, and went to the Cnited States about fifteen years ago, where ho lived at various places and worked as a labourer. About three years ago he decided to leave America, as Germans were, lie said, treated so badly (here, and he could not get work. He stowed away on a vessel at New York, and he got ashore at the London Docks without being noticed. In the United States he said he had posed as a Swede. SHIP-BUILDING RECORD. All previous reeoi’ds in ship linishing, it is reported, have been beaten by a marvellous performance on the part of the men of Messrs Workman, Clark and Co., Ltd., Belfast, who have completed a standard ship of 8,00(1 tons in three and three-quarter days. The vessel left the stock's on a Thursday afternoon (main engines and boilers were all on hoard the same evening), and so rapidly was she brought forward that she ran her mooring (rials on the Friday afternoon. Steam was up 44 hours after the hollers were in place on the Saturday, which was a short day, and on the Sunday the ship left for her preliminary run, the trials proving satisfactory in ('very respect. The previous record was held by Messrs Harland and \\(dll', Ltd., Belfast, who (inished a vessel last month in live days.