GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2006, 24 July 1919, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Mr William Clarke Stennett, of Epsomj left £2O a year for the maintenance of his dog Sam, and £lO a year for the ffiaintenanee of his eat. Charged with selling as port wine, at 2s Gd a bottle, a concoction containing 00.34 per cent, of water, with aniline dye and red pepper, Patrick McClnskey was at Liverpool sent for trial.

When a boy was bound over at Liverpool with another boy on a charge of loitering for the purpose of betting with football coupons, he stated that after a row with his father, a bookmaker, he started on his own. A week previously he had “dropped” £3O. America is recovering buried treasure in Samoa. Officials of the German Commercial Plantation Company buried currency belonging to the company just before it was taken over by the Government, and £6OO of this money has been dug up. It will be sent to the alien enemy property custodian. The search is continuing. A man, aged 34, charged with stealing a bicycle, handed in a “written defence” to the Lambeth magistrate. It began: “Dear Sir. —Just a line to let you know I am innocent.” There were live previous convictions against the prisoner for theft, it was said, and he was now drawing the State unemployment allowance. He received four months’ hard labour.

Search is being made in London for thieves who broke into a tailor’s shop and stole bales of cloth which they removed in a taxi-cab. No fewer than six previous attempts had been made,- and after each the police were informed and the locks strengthened. At the seventh attempt the'thieves, who arrived at 2.30 a.m., smashed the window and a glass screen inside.

A letter from the Health Commissioner for the Commune of Blato, in the Island of Korcule, Dalmatia, announces thfit a cross has been erected on the grave of Mrs. Claude Askew, the authoress, who was drowned with Iter husband, owing to the sinking by a U-boat of the vessel on which they wore travelling. He adds that the following inscription in the Servian language appears on the stone; —“Here lies the illustrious English author, Alice Askew, whom the sea gave up on October 29th, 1917, and whom we buried the day after.”