GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1930, 23 January 1919, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

POOR CLERGYMEN’S CHILDREN. “What right have clergymen to marry, and bring children into the world, if they have insufficient professional incomes, and no assured private iiieans for supporting and educating them?” asked one of them in the Church Times. Such conduct is rightly censured as the most reckless improvidence. PRINCE OF WALES' PART. The French Journal Ollieiel publishes the following extract from an Army Order: —“His Royal Highness Edward Prince of Wales, staff caplain in the 1-11 h British Army Corps from July to October, 1917, in the region of Boesinghc and Langemarck, by ensuring liasons up to the first lines under bombardment, contributed very effectively to the close co-operation in the battle of the 14th British Army Corps and the Ist French Army.” PRICES OF LUXURIES FALL. Although the housewife who ex-* peeled an immediate fall in food prices and increased quantities is disappointed, there is ample evidence that the prices of certain luxury articles are falling, says a London paper. Furs, hats, and the more decorative articles of apparel are being marked down. A pink hat from Paris displayed in Regent Street has depreciated from 15 guineas to eight and a-half guineas in four days. Second-hand furniture shops, where .a week or two ago a kitchen table worth when new £2 would fetch £3 l()s, have had to climb down. Dealers in secondhand books are mure ready to bargain. On all sides the possibility of new stocks of goods being available shortly has a tendency to make the customers wary, and incline tradespeople to attract purchasers by reductions, This does not, however, apply to men’s clothes, hoots, or food. SPRUCE FOR AEROPLANES. There are 300 men logging ill' Cumchowii Inlet, on Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, and since April, when operations commenced, more than 12,000,000 ft. of spruce for aeroplanes have been cut. The Government scaler recently sealed one tree which had three logs it it with a total of 40,000 ft. of No. 1 spruce. The smallest log in this tree was 80iu. at. the top, while (ho butt of the largest log measured 11 ft. 4 in. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. BURNS’ “LANG HERE AWA In an autograph le(lce, written when visiting John McMurdo, about 1700, Robert Burns expressed his belief that bis old enemy, the devil, taking advantage of his being affected l»y tiie potency of port, had tempted him to lie a Jillie turbulent overnight. He then presented his host “with the following sung, which 1 have hammered out this morning.” The song begins “Lung here awa, there awa, Wandering Willie," The whole MS., If pages quarto, was recently sold. THE AMMUNITION PROBLEM. What is to be done with the millions of charged shells, rifle cartridges, mines, and oilier explosives, a considerable portion of which cannot have the explosive removed without grave danger.-” asks “A Clubman” in the Fall Mall Gazette. Even their discharge in the usual fashion would be risky in many cases. So far the only practical suggestion dial 1 have beard is dial all the dangerous staff he dumped in the Atlantic. But for sentimental reasons one might recommend the Pacific instead as the resting place for this material.