GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1977, 15 May 1919, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

LONGEST AIR SERVICE. The longest air service now running regularly is (bat between Vienna and Padua (301 miles). Every three days (wo (.’apronis leave Vienna and two leave Padua, carrying mails and passengers.

PERJURY IN THE COURT’S. “It is perfectly notorious, - ' said Mr Justice Darling, in London, “that (ho amount of perjury committed in the Divorce Court is a scandal to our civilisation.” The judge was speaking at the Old Bailey, where a Cardiff estate agentpleaded guilty to committing perjury in a divorce suit, and avus sentenced to three mouths’ imprisonment in the second division.

WRONG TIME TO TALK. “Clerks will please refrain from discussing their Avar experiences until after 5 p.m.”, is a notice in a London ship-broker's office. When asked for an explanation, the manager staled that a lot of lime is wasted by young men jiisl demobilised in comparing notes on their lighting experiences. “Whenever I come into the office 1 hear, ‘Do yon remember the Menin Road.” or ‘Was your battalion at Cambral?’ One clerk is continually imitating a 5.9 shell coming through the air, which, is bad for the nerves of the older members of the staff. We are only too glad for our clerks to talk over old limes, but we think this should he done out of business hours.”

BOUND TO CIiAIUS AND r BOBBED. An audacious robbery occurred in the h’ue dc Tourelles, Baris. An aged couple, nainod .Marlin, who keep a grocery shop, were shutting up at about 8 o’clock, when a woman, followed by four individuals wearing masks, rushed into Hie shop, and seizing (lie old people, bound them to chairs. They were then threatened with revolvers, and forced to reveal where their money was kept. The bandits took about 3,000 francs, as well as some jewels, 'and got clear away. The two victims remained bound to the chairs all night, and were only released when discovered by some early customers in the morning.