GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2078, 15 January 1920, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A Chelsea patient has just diet! at Hanwell Asylum who was sent there from Chelsea 41 years ago, at the age of 19. His maintenance cost the Chelsea Guardians oyer £1,200. Round and round the Paris market, dodging among the stalls, a small crowd chased two highway rubbers for nearly an hour. The men had waylaid a cashier and stolen £2,000 which ,he was taking to the bank. Eventually the' two ot The German Navy League is to be re-christened “the German Sea League.” It is to work for the development of the German mercantile marine and the resumption of German, maritime trade and shipping. ' them were cornered and arrested. Tn advising London authorities about housing design, the Ministry of Health suggests that where skylights form the only means of ventilating -staircases, they should have means of effecting permanent ventilation, and in such a way as to deceive pei’.sons who have a rooted objection to fresh air. t The bulldog has ousted the French Poodle in the estimation of French people. ’ At the Paris dog show there ■were seven bulldogs to every single poodle, and £BO was the lowest price for a. white and brindled aristocrat. All these poor brutes were very miserable, for the day was cold, and the show was held in the open air at the Tuileries, without even straw being provided'for'them to He on. French indifference in this respect contrasts markedly with the luxurious canine comfort of the English dog show.