GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2117, 20 April 1920, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

“As an acknowledgment of the extra trouble caused to them by bis death,” Mr R. S. Henderson, a London merchant, left £250 each to two of his employees. Lying across his wife’s grave in Barking Cemetery, London' E., -John Oliver (74) was found dead with a bottle which had contained spirits of salts beside him. His wife died about three years ago, and his grief at her loss caused him to make frequent visits to the grave. At 1 a.m., ten men in immaculate evening dress arrived at a dance in the Rue Berlioz, Paris. They danced for some time, but suddenly all produced revolver’s and held up the whole room, forcing all present to hand over their jewellery and valuables. One woman lost jewellery to the value of £2,000, Two arrests were made. At a dinner which he gave to 200 newspaper sellers at Newport, Mon., Mr Peter Wright, the Mayor, related a romantic story of his youth. He said that recently, when visiting New York, he was lent a motor ear by the Mayor, and drove to see doorsteps on which he slept 45 years ago. So vivid was recollection that he could almost feel the pain of the policeman’s foot which came in contact with his body. The castle of Eartirana-Lomel-lina, the residence of the Duchess di Sartirana, maid of honour to the 4 and a sister of the

Princess Hohenlohe, was entered by burglars on two nights in succession. On the first occasion £2,000 in cash was stolen. The thieves secured jewels valued at £4,000 on the second night. Tlics Krasnaya Gazette records Ibe arrest of a prominent Moscow Bolshevist named Novogorodtseff for charging Trotsky with cherishing the ambition to be Russia’s new Tsar. “Commissary Trotsky,” runs the passage for which Novogorodtseff was arrested, the kindly but condescending manners and mannerisms of a Tsarevitch. His staff of generals, adjutants, and .leckeys, many of whom are titled ex-courtiers of Nicholas, shines like Ihe sun. When he addresses soldiers it is always ‘My Soldiers,’ ‘My fine fellows,’ and when he signs documents he puts an impressive ‘i’,’ because his fame is such that only one ‘T’ in the world counts. But has Comrade ‘T’ the pluck to complete the metamorphosis and blossom forth as a complete Tsar? That, whispers say, is the real ambition of the organiser of Red Russia’s legions."