GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2110, 1 April 1920, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

I( Is announced that liie Kaiser, in an interview with the President of (lie Republic of Peru, asked permission lo go in that country to raise cal lie. Drinkers in America, who have been nimble to get whisky safe to drink, have been consuming varnish, hay-nun, hair-dye, eau-de-Cologne, perfumes, and patent medicines, says a New York' hospital report. Though there lias been a falling off in (lie number of chronic alcoholics, there has been a groat increase in eases of delirium tremens, nnd a larger number of deaths resulting from the sale of adulterated alcohol. A pur.-e containing two coins, n button, and a postage stamp, was lost at a school treat at Woking last summer by a little girl, it has now been found in Ihe stomach of a cow which laid been grazing in the held in which the trend took place. At Ulster Winter Assizes at Belfast, throe young men were charged with assaulting Lizzie Moran (UP, on May 21st last. Miss Moran was walking in the evening with n companion when three men, alleged to he the accused, dressed in women's clothes and wearing masks or veils over their faces, ea light her, threw her down, gagged her, and tarred her. Sergeant Healy stated that in his opinion jealousy was I lie evase of the outrage, and the girl’s father su'd now his daughter’s yharaeior was cleared he did not want the ■accused severely punished. One of the men was f mnd ooi guilty, and •the other two prison nv. were each enteneed to three montl s’ hard labour.