GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2023, 2 September 1919, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Hundreds of gallons 01. alcohol used in making cordite have lately been stolen from the Royal gunpowder factory at Waltham Abbey, A workman was fined C2 recently for stealing some to drink in his lea.

M. .Jean Oaimol I'd• cu!ly made a 3,700 mile trip round France in an aerial limousine carrying’ six passengers. This is l,ho first aerial circular tour ever made. The machine descended at many of the historic show places of France. The Rolshovi.-l Educational Congress has decided to introduce plays into the curriculum of the schools, and also to make instruction in dancing obligatory, is these are

“powerful factors ineolleel ive education and social discipline.” English people who wish to pos-sess-a lighting tank will now have their chance. Thirty of these wav inventions are included in the immense variety of goods which arc being sold by direction of the Disposnl Board of the .Ministry of Munitions.

Dr, William Wedd, of Toronto, who entered Upper Canada College Jm 1837, became head hoy in 1843, and who was classical master of (he college for 43 years, has died at the age of 05. He lived (hiring the reigns of George IV. , William IV., Victoria, Edward Vll., and George V,

Marylebone Guardians recently decided to raise no objection to the handing over to (lie Anatomical Committee of London for Dissection, bodies of Marylebone patients accommodated at the City union. The clerk said that he would have no .objection if he could to handing over the dead body. H was for the good of the country. A t Kingston recently, four schoolboys, whose ages ranged from 10 to .12 years, were fined —three of them Ins each, and the fourth 7s fid — for throwing stones at trains and endangering the safety of-passeu.-gers. Mi- Keeves, prosecuting, mentioned that some years ago a stone thrown at a passing train struck the enginedriver, who subsequently died from the injury. The Committee of the National Hostels for deafened ..sailors and soldiers, which has been doing valuable work in England, has “peculiar qualifications for its work. The chairman, Mr A. J. Wilson, has been stone deaf since boyhood. Sir Frederick Milner is extremely deaf, Lord Lamington is rather hard of hearing, Lady Lamington and the Hon.

Venetia Baring use car-trumpets. The Rev. Vernon Jones also is hard of hearing, and Mr K ry is totally deaf. ' When Paul Meller, 29, a sergeant in the Seats Guards, stationed at Dales, near Glasgow, was arrested on a charge of obtaining with a worthless cheque, a gold wrist watch, valued £(i 15s, he frankly confessed that there were .other eases he would like, cleared up at [lie same time, “I forget the names of the people,” he said, “but the things belonging to them will be found in my luggage.” In this way he assisted the police 4 in bringing throe charges instead of-one against him, and was sentenced to twelve, quint hs’ imprisonment.