GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2108, 27 March 1920, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Tavo human skeletons have been unearthed by children while at play near Newhailes, Midlothian, close to the spot where others were discovered several years ago. The skeletons ai’e believed to be those of t-Avo Scottish soldiers killed in the pursuit after the Battle of Pinkie over 370 years ago. There has just passed aAvay, at Stratehfielclsays, in her 103rd year, ■an old lady Avho Avas for many years employed in the dairy of the Iron Duke on that estate. She Avas born lavo years after the Battle of Waterloo, of Avhieh, in later years, she heard many interesting accounts at first hand. Hamburg tenants recently held a protest meeting against their exploitation by liouse-oAvners, and a resolution Avas passed proclaiming a “strike.’’ Tenants refused to pay their rents if the Government did not take measures against abuses. Out of 216,000 British Avar widows, 38,664 have remarried, says the Minister for Pensions. This is at the rate of about 19 per cent. "Each Avidcnv on marrying again receives a State dowry equal to one year’s pension, so the Pensions Minister has to provide this year for an extra total of 38,664 year’s pensions. Miss Anna Manson, 24 years old, knoAvn as “Starlight Sylph of the Soviets,” and declared the “most beautiful Bolshevik,” has been sent to Ellis Island, Mew York, to await deportation as an alien agitator. She Avas arrested in the raid on the Russian language radical paper Moa’.v Mir. So eloquent avus a speech made by Miss Manson at a police station where she expounded, Ihe doctrines of free thought, .tree speech, equal distribution of all Avonlth, and free lovcj Ural her captors missed (tie regular ferry to Ellis Island,' and she avus escorted-there individually by one of the police department's most courtly detectives. Aeroplanes complete with 50-h.p. Gnome engines for £95 apiece! That is the remarkable offer aiU'ertised in an English technical paper. They had all been tested and taken up frequently for lights, and were in perfect condition. And the extraordinary part is that there has not been a single applicant. A complete aeroplane for less than the cost of a good motor bicycle, and no buyers! Doubtless I lie difficulty oi. possessing a private aeroplane is Iho question of garaging. The upkeep expenses are heavy, £1 a week being the average hangar charges, whilst a 50-h.p. rotary engine i" very ex travagant. In his will, Mr Samuel Barrington Tristram, of Worthing, barrister, who left £19,000, Avrotc: “I beg that my body may not be interred in a leaden coffin or deep in the earth. I have no preference for consecrated ground, and T should Avish to be buried in a Avicker basket on a slope of the South Downs, facing, the south and the sun.” As the testator had a fear of being buried or cremated alive, be directed that a mam artery be opened after his apparent death. In a codicil he desired that his medical attcnda.nl should gi\e a written certificate that lie had severed the jugular vein. Mr Tristram also expressed a wish that “no solicitor, stockbroker, stockjobber, or any future husband of my wife shall be appointed trustee of my AvilL