GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1971, 1 May 1919, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

BANEY’S CHOICE. James Banoy, of Kansas City, Missouri, must marry within 90 days in order to secure £IB,OOO willed him on this condition by his aunt.

HARD LABOUR FOR MAGISTRATES. “Before a man becomes a magistrate he should have three months' hard labour as part of his training for the office,” suggested the secretary of the Women’s Freedom League in London, at a meeting held to discuss penal reform.

ROOF GARDENS FOR AIRSHIPS. “There will probably be a roof garden, access to which will be by a lift, in the passenger airship of the future,” said Lieut.-Colonel Lockwood March, R.A.F., at a. meeting of the Camera Club in London. “It has been estimated by Messrs Vickers,” he staled, “that the passenger iV.ro to America by airship will Do £4B, against £lls Vj aeroplane.”

“RIVER CLYDE” V.C.’s. In order to commemorate (he beaching of (ho River Clyde at Gallipoli a Liverpool shipowner has ontinstcd (ho Merchant Service Guild with the presentation of; a special war medallion in bronze to those who were serving in the vessel at ihc lime and were awa;ueu ihe . .C. for valour in effecting the landing. Of the six members of the crew who received the decoration only three survive Captain Edward Unwin, K.N., Lieutenant George Me Sampson, and Lieutenant W. SI. A. Melk'son. The medallion is the work of Mr R. Carter Preston, the designer of lhe national memorial war plaque.

LONGEST AIK SERVICE. The longest air service now running regularly is that between Vienna and Padua (304 miles). Every throe days two Capronis leave Vienna and (wo leave Padua, carrying mails and passengers.

CLEMEN CE AC'S BOOK. “As soon us the problems of peace have been solved,” declared M. Clemenceau, “ami I have finished my task, I shall take a rest that, after 50 years of politics, I think I have well earned. And in my retirement I shall write a book which perhaps no one will read, but which I, at all events, shall be glad to have written.”

“A GIRL TO HIMSELF.” With reference to the proclamation for the nationalisation of women in Bolshevist Russia, the following is the text of a document found on a Red Array commissary captured at the front:— “Hereby I certify that the bearer is allowed the right of acquiring a girl to himself, and no one may oppose this in any way. He is invested with full power which I certify/’

PERJURY IN THE COURTS. “It is perfectly notorious/'’ said Mr Justice Darling, in London, “that the amount of perjury committed in the Divorce Court is a scandal to our civilisation.’ ihe .judge was speaking at the Old Bailey, Avhere a Cardiff estate agent; pleaded guilty to committing perjury in a divorce suit, and was sentenced to three months imprisonment in (he second division.