GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2032, 23 September 1919, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A baby born in Sunderland, England, had recently bestowed upon it the appalling name “Mons Robert Armistice.” His parent* have decided to call him “Bob.” ,

M. Pepin, the Socialist Deputy, Ims asked the Belgian Government to order that the lion erected on the battlefield of Waterloo be turned about with its month to the north in recognition of Prance's services towards the freeing of Belgium. It is reported front Geneva that the site to be selected for the headquarters of the League of Nations must be two miles deep, and have a mile of lake front. The lake is needed” for seaplanes to alight, and a deep site is necessary for a power station, wireless, etc. A short time ago an English lady sent anonymously to St. Dunstan’s 200 £1 notes, with a letter which slated: —“I have been saving the enclosed for my hoy, who has not returned, so I think the next best thing I can do with the money is to send it to you for the benefit of St. Dunstau's.”

General Gir Julian Byng, addressins? the boys of Cheltenham College recently, said at Eton he, took the bottom of the school and there remained, watching, distinguished geniuses coming and going, until he was ousted by Sir Henry Rawlingson —(much laughter) —upon whose arrival he could ho longer claim to be the stupidest fellow at Eton.

“You’ve lots to live for, so live right,” Judge Harry P. Dolan told two boys in his courtroom at Chicago recently. Ten minutes later the judge’s body was picked up in an office 11 stories beneath his own. According to witnesses, the jurist jumped from his window on the eleventh floor of the county, building, plunging through a skylight in his flight. Judge Dolan had been ill for several months.

Three youths living in the village ' of Higham-ou-lhe-Hill; Leicester-