GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2021, 28 August 1919, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

ll is officially announced that- a memorial table! is to,be placed on board each merchant hesscl that acted as a decoy ship during the war. The table! will be inscribed with details of the vessel’s service, together with the names of her commander and members of the crew who received decorations. • King Victor Emmanuel has taken the initiative in demanding from the Italian Stale that six of the largest Royal palaces be, alienated from the Crown domains for the permanent benefit of disabled soldiers and sailors and the orphan children of those fallen in the war. in furtherenee of the scheme for the conversion of army and other Government huts into cottages, the deputy-Chairman of (he Ministry of Munitions has written to the City of London Corporation asking permission to erect a hut converted for use. as a dwelling- in a central position in the city for inspection by the public. As a twelve-year-old girl natued Florence Newsman was passing through Elizabeth Street, Preston, a dog ran after a eat, and began worrying it. The cat managed to escape, and, springing at the girl, badly mauled her about the cheek and forehead, narrowly missing the eye. A discharged soldier sucked the wounds, and took the child to the hospital. In the assault ease of Mrs Mary Ann Hall versus her sister, Mrs Minnie Maybury, heard in the Newport Magistrate’s Court recently, the Mayor said the magistrates were astonished that two men( the husband of the defendant Maybury and the husband of Mrs Kempson, of Oakley Street, where the. -fracas started), should have looked on whilst two sisters fought each other. An orgy of speculation of the New York Stock Exchange in “peace brides” (peace stocks) is causing new crops of mushroom millionaires to spring up throughout America, who a few months ago were counting bank accounts of only three or four figures. The frenzied gambling which is now proceeding has never been excelled, even during the most optimistic dealing in “war brides” (war stocks),