GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2105, 20 March 1920, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Penzance, England, boasts the distinction of possessing a boy preacher, only 15 years old. He is \\. J. Harvey, win.) delivered his Hrst sermon at the age of 13. He is a polished speaker, and uses no notes while talking. School libraries in Germany are, by Government order, to lie “purified.” The purification order iay> it down that the works to be suppressed are to include all those* oi “Chauvinist, Imperialist, Militarist, Nationalist, ’Monarchist, Antisemi I if', or Byzantine nature.” Complaining of her husband’s conduct, a woman told the Willesden magistrate that he frequently made all the family,get up at two and three o'clock in the morning and go for walks. In very cold weather he slashed the blankets into ribbons with a razor. In the controversy upon the mysterious wireless tapping recorded by the Marconi experts, no mention has been made by the cableman of the opmion of the famous Irish wit. Geo. Bernard Shaw. This opinion of his, exprcs.-ed years ago upon nothing in particular, is extremely apropos to-day: “The longer 1 live the more 1 am inclined to the belief that this earth is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.” Considerable difliculty is being experienced by University students in securing suitable board and lodging in Dunedin, and many students from the north and south have had, after an exhaustive search, to accept any kind of shelter. One party, nine in. number, Inna* solved their difliculty in a practical way by leasing a large house, engaging a housekeeper, and frunishing the dwelling. This, however, must be very expensive, owing to the high cost of furniture and other essentials. On the western slope of the Crueha.n Mountains in Koss-shire recently a fierce fight was observed between two, and later three eagles and one of the big mountain foxes which usually hunt in packs in these inaccessible* regions. The two eagles were observed swooping 1 on the fox on a green slope where the fierce birds had descried him. Raynard was endeavouring to secure cover iu a cairn some distance over the mountain ridge, but unfortunately for him a third eagle Joined in the battle. The fox fought for his life, and the eagles by their tactics well knew,the danger of his powerful jaws. Whenever the fox squalled two eagles settled on the ground and the third attacked him. He sprang and snapped, but repeatedly the birds drove him over, and after a prolonged light finally killed and devoured him. The Daily Telegraph slates that Carpenlier before sailing for America staled that he had deposited .Cl,ooo with Mr Gochran. The purse was generous, and it would be ridiculous to hold mil for another offer. “The war caused me to lose £40,000, but the victory over Beckett enabled me to get £50,000. If I meet Dempsey, I will have a fortune of £IOO,000 in all, so I desiredo retire,” said Carpen I ier. New Zealanders returning from trips to Great Britain all seem impressed with the fact that England is a good place to keep mil of for the time* being. Statement:- to this effect were cohlirmed by the Chief Health Officer (Dr. T. H. A. Valintine). Dr. Valinline said people at Home had not settled down yet after the war, and everyone seemed to be making up for (he war period lack of holidays by travelling now. The result was that accommodation was extremely dillicult to get, and (ravelling most unpleasant. “Chicago, with its three millions of-population, has more murders in a year than England, Scotland and Wales, with their forty millions of people.” This statement was made by Mr H. W. Sims, president of the Chicago Crime Commission. “Crime in Chicago is as highly organised as the mail order business,” said Mr Sims. “There isn’t a police captain in the city who, backed up by the prosecuting authorities and the Courts, cannot reduce crime in his precinct 50 per cent, in thirty days, if he wants to. Crime conditions in Chicago are appalling. We are averaging a murder a day.” A Carterton agriculturist of considerable experience expressed his amazement the other day to a News reporter at the outcry against (lour at £1(1 10s a ton, when oaten chaff, which includes grain, , husk, and straw, is being sold at £l2 Ills a ton, and no talk at all made about it. “This price for oaten chaff must,” he said, “lend to further increase the price of wheat, for it made the cost of working the land heavier, where horses were used; and certainly made growers more in--dined to go in for oats than wheat. Oats at 401 b. to the bushel at 7s are considerably more paying to the

grower than wheat ;il (501 b. for 7s Id; while I he price of chaff compared l« (ho price of Hour is ridiculous.” ‘‘Yet,” he added, “although oafs and chaff are in direct competition with wheal and, flour in the matter of growing them, you do not hear as much about regulating the price of oats and chad as you do ahout wheat and (lour.” Oats seem to have all the best of it. is the comment by the News, and presently, that paper says, the public will know it by a further increase in the price of oatmeal. The people are being “hit up” in every direction. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great. Peppermint Cure.