GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1982, 27 May 1919, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

NURSE CAVELL. The exhumation of Nurse Cavell’s body at Brussels for burial tit her home in England has been postponed to suit the arrangements of relatives there. Nurse Cavell will be buried in the village churchyard of Swardeston, near Norwich, where she was born, and of which village her father was rector for many years. ..f J

BOY OE SIX GROWS A BEARD,

Tommy Norton, aged six, of Plano, Texas, has a beard as long as his father’s. His parents, in alarm, have called in doctors, who think the growth will gradually cease. Six months ago Tommy began to sprout a moustache. ithin a few weeks the beard has spread over his face. Now it is three inches long.

AMERICAN OFFICER STUDENTS. The University of Cambridge has received another addition in the arrival of 200 American military | officers, who have gone into resi- \ deuce at various colleges for a [ special course of studies until the ■■ end of June. All these officers : were members of the American universities, when their studies were suspended by military duties.

TO EXHUME WAR DEAD. The Army Commission of the Ereneh Chamber has adopted a report regarding the proposal for the exhumation and transport: by railway to other burial grounds of Ereneh, allied, and enemy soldiers and sailors who wore killed or who died' daring the war. The report, staled that a Government scheme was on fool in which the possibility is anticipated of tlie exhumation and transport of these bodies at the expones of the Slate being commenced on October Ist next.

FAMOUS 11Y.MX CRITICISED. Preaching at Bjpigor Cathedral, the Rev. Wynne Jones, Carnarvon, criticised Bishop Ueher’s well known hymn “ from Greenland’s Icy Mountains.” Ho said he wished the Bishop had not written the lilies; — What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o’er Ceylon’s isle, Though every prospect pleases And only man is vile. It was not right to say that man on (he island was vile. The lines had one virtue, however they taught us how to pronounce Ceylon properly.

A MIDDLE-CLASS UNION. An organisation of the. middle Hasses to. withstand the rapacity of the manual worker and the profiteer is being advocated in England by Mr Kennedy -Jones, M.P. If they combined, he said recently, the middle classes had powers for their own protection not less potent nor less effective than those possessed by the organised workers. A mid-dle-class union could see that the Government made no difficulty about the collection of the income tax from manual workers. A fortnight’s abstention from the use of taxi-cabs by the middle classes would bring the drivers and owners to their senses, or a refusal to use gc.s for a certain period would scare and alarm the gas-workers. A middle-class union could also insist on such legislation as would ensure the recognition of the interests of the public as a third parly in all trade disputes, and thus put an end to the lightning strike, which was simply a “hold-up” of the community by a small section of workers.