NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2016, 16 August 1919, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Counsel, in making an application in (he London Divorce Court, and the husband in the ease had refused to sign a deed. He lias signified his refusal by sending to bis father-in-law a ,eopy of a newspaper placard bearing I lie words “Will not sign— Kantzau,” substituting his own name for that of the German dole-

gnte. The Politiken’s Berlin correspond-, ont stilles that a swindler, representing himself to be the ex-Kai-ser’s courier, recently dashed into Brandenburg on a. high-powered motor car, and declared that the Dutch were starving the Kaiser under allied pressure. The Kaiser, he said, had sent him to his “faithful Brandenburgers” to beg for food. The wealthy peasants responded with large quantifies of eggs, flour, find hams, and the swindler vanished with a well-laden.motor car. For some time past Mersey Docks and Harbour Board has been conducting dredging operations in the neighbourhood of the Burbo bank, one of the huge accumulations of sand which impede the navigation of the Mersey entrance, and these have resulted in a ‘Tind” of remarkable,interest. It is the remains of a, steamer which have evidently been embedded for generations. Her date is long anterior to that of iron shipbuilding. Her timber and framing are of sound English oak, to which circumstance, doubtless, is due the fact that they still retain cohesion and shape. Her beams, in point of fact, are described as being as “hard as iron.” The machinery has practically perished, bub the engine bed-plates and the funnel remain, and relics of pottery and' other articles arc plentiful. The vessel, cleared of super-abundant sand, is not only visible, but accessible, at low water. The prevailing opinion is that she is the William Huskinsson, a paddle steamer belonging to the City of Dublin Company, and trading between Liverpool and the Irish capital, which on'January 20th 1840, was wrecked on her passage to the Mersey, She had 120 passengers on board, of whom 95 were rescued by the ship Huddersfield, and the remainder perished.