GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2031, 20 September 1919, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Duelling is not'yet dead. A meeting o'ccnrrcd a I Jhiyonne recently between the Deputy Al. Carat Major and M. Demmes, vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce. Two shots were ■ exchanged, neither of which, however, look effect. The possibility of the application of spiritualism to the del eel ion of crime was referred fo by Sir Arthur Comm Doyle in a recent led are on ‘‘Death'mid the Hereafter.” “Why are spirit powers not used to locate missing people ?” is a frequent question, he said. “Spiritualists are only beginning to define the laws, W that these laws can he extended and used for the detection of crime I have no doubt whatever. They should he used more than they are, but we must hot ask for the impossible.'’ '

There are fewer (|iiaini customs connected with. Iho summer solstice tli an with the win I oi* solstice, but: mie of (he prettiest; occurs in the Devon perish of Ilolswurthy. There in the church porch ;il noun on Midsummer Dyy the churchwyrdens ‘■openly yivo to the young single woman esteemed by the young ;is tlie must handsome in the parish, und most-noted for. her quietness,” the sum of £2 10s, under the will of a former vicar. During recent years this prize for modest beauty has been won by no fewer than live damsels belonging to the sayie family. Some queer and almost incredible .stories are floating about of the wonderful bargains that can be transacted in respect to Ibe sales of motor ears and motor cycles at Dar-es-Salaam. A returned warrant officer told a represent at ive of the Xatal Witness that motor ears were disposed of at prices as low as two rupees (2s 8d). At any rale, he instances a transaction where the lucky purchaser of a Maxwell car, which just wanted upholstering, paid two rupees, and ho was supplied with a tin of petrol to take it home! Motor cycles were also, it is alleged, sold by auction at ridiculous prices.

The Hamburg News says that 1,500 students of Gpettingen University sent a deputation to General Himlenlmrg to inform him that they were ready to defend him to the last drop of their blood. The field-mar-shal thanked them in a voice shaken with emotion.