GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2056, 18 November 1919, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Marshal ’Foch’s .lint worn at the Marne has been put up for sale for the Disabled Officers’ Fund. Three separate ’offers of £I,OOO were received for (he hat. The. chief feature of an interesting dog show just opened at: Lille is a line griffon that belonged to Nurse Cavell, who was.shot by the' Germans. The dog is exhibited by its present owner, the Duchesse do Croy. The emerald mines from which the Pharaohs of old are believed to have obtained their treasure, have been rediscovered) in Lpper Egypt, a few miles from the Red Sea. Some of the excavations wore shored up with timbers that are still intact, and tools, dating back to 1(100 B.C. have been found scattered around the mines. *At ('levelvs, near Blackpool, two lovers were drowned together while on holiday. The young woman got info difficulties while bathing, and her fiance plunged into the sea, fulivnlvesscd, in an effort to rescue her. There, was a very strong current, at: the point, and both the young; woman, who was a good swimmer, and her fiance, av!io had served with (.lie Army in German East Africa, v.crc drowned.

it is hoped that: the Vickers “Viiny-Rolls” aeroplane piloted by Captain Sir John Alcock across the Atlantic will lie housed with Stephensons'“Rocket” at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Month Kensington. In presenting the complete machine to the nation, Messrs Vickers and Messrs Rolls-Royce, owners of,the engines, consider that the exhibition of the two side by side will be of supreme interest to future generations. A workman who was employed making excavations in Corporation Road, Grimsby, dug up an old coin, which he exchanged for a pint of beer at a public house, 'the manager of the latter scut the coin to (he British Museum for classification. A report received from the curator describes the coin as a brass Sestertius of the Roman Emperor Vespasian, period A. 1). 00 70. The coin is in a good state of preservation, and of considerable interest .and value to collectors.

A. representative of the Alalia ba< visited, at Doom, the chateau which the ex-Kaiser is desirous of buying. Wilhelm was down at the place recently, and offered £40,000 fur it. The chateau has two wings •and ..a central building two storeys high. A stone bridge, thrown across a wide moat, leads to a court of honour. The chateau is surrounded by a large park and superb woods. Doom is a wooded region, with many aristocratic chateaux, much frequented in summer. The baud of motor bandits, who are carrying on their activities in the Paris suburbs, recently, made off with a. valuable limousine. The chauffeur of the car, a youth of 16, informed (lie police that for some months he had been engaged by the American Catholic Association. He Avas driving alone through Paris when two men sprang into the ear, saying, witlr a strong American accent: "We are the /police.; drive quickly straight ahead.” The youth endeavoured to protest, but a revolver was levelled at Him, ami he was obliged to drive at a breakneck speed to Versailles, where he was ordered to stop in front of the Irianon. Here he Avas searched and robbed, and the bandits then ma.de off Avitli the car.