GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2092, 19 February 1920, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

iu her will disposing of estate valued at £11,917, Miss Elizabeth Hudson, of Liverpool, gave instructions that she was to he buried with her father, and mother, and that “no further interments may take place iu .that grave.” She further directed that the following words should be cut into the head-stone; —“This grave never to be opened again.” “Auf den Tag!” (“To the day!”), according to the Fhcheit, is the new toast of the associations of cx-of-licers, reviving the old German Navy Toast. The “day” is, of course, that of monarchic' restoration. The toast was formally adopted at Ihe original meeting of tin; association of-ex-9,dicers of the First Grenadier Life Guards, which sent a telegram expressing /“unswerving loyalty” to the ex-Kaiser. Several hundred streets, bridges, squares and buildings in Vienna, named after the former royal family, arc being re-christened. Many of the new. names are those of native Austrian men of letters, art and science. -The government is being attacked by the opposition press because of the cost of the changes, which is expected to exceed .3,000,000 crowns.

Well-defined remains of n Roman villa of considerable proportions have been discovered near (lie famous Romano-British camp of Ham Hill, Somerset. Recent digging has led to the discovery of well-laid foundations, a concrete Hour with numerous tesserae scattered over if, portions of tiles, . fragments of painted wall plaster and brick, giving definite evidence of a Roman villa of some size. The relic.-' found have been presented to the County Museum. Mr.* Diana .heroine, of Earl’s Court, in a letter to the press, says: —“lt is an Open ' secret among women expecting and hoping for a proposal of marriage that a stroll in the moonlight with the favoured man is a magic aid iu making him put the eternal question., The moonlight, so experienced women say-, causes the bashful man to he hold, and the man in doubt to he certain alike of his feelings and (heir reciprocation. 1 wonder inecd. for how many marriages moonlight is not responsible! Whether, of course, love-making is connected with lunacy is another eternal question. Certainly, love is frequently described as a divine madness.

Tlmt dim and awesome monsters do exist in the sent depths is as certain iis anything can he, says an English weekly paper. Naval officers have watched them for hours, so have a whole warship's company. Captains of tramp steamers have also seen the sea serpent. The volume of evidence accumulates for centuries, and not many years ago a huge and horrible creature was cast • ashore dead near Bt. John s, Newfoundland. This was a giant octopus, with each big arm, or tentacle, covered with hundreds of sucking mouths. It is thought that monsters of "this order have been responsible for the mysterious disappearance of ships,' such as the Waratah, and many more. The latest captain to sight the serpent is the Dutch master of the African coaster Lum-Lum. When about 15C miles north-west of Capetown Captain Van den "Woof saw an enormous head upraised on a slender neck, with ripples extending back for 150 feet. Five times did Hie ship circle round the creature, whose head was as big as a 2001 b. pork barrel. The master had been warned to look out for the thing by a fellow-seaman, who had passed that way some weeks before.