GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2148, 10 July 1920, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A. curious gift has been made to Guildhall Museum. It is a third thumb Avhieh a local resident bad amputated from his left hand to enable him to pass the medical test for the army.

The island of Comaeina, in Lake Como, has been bequeathed by Caprani, the Italian millionaire, avlio died recently at Bellagio, to KingAlbert of Belgium, in tribute to his Avar services. Tourists have never been permitted to invade this island.

May Ryan (15), Avho was charged af Leicester with attempting to commit suicide, was alleged to have jumped into a canal, and was rescued after a struggle by a soldier named Johnson. She told the court, that she- loved a boy of 17. He had refused to go out with her, and life Avas not Avorth Jiving. The girl was discharged on promising not: to offend again. On returning from a theatre, Mrs Owen, Avife of a West Hartlepool hairdresser, andlier daughter, Avere held up at the garden gate by a masked man, avlio seized Airs Oavcii’s handbag, and, pointing a revolver at her head, exclaimed, “Hands up!” She snatched the Aveapon from him and fired in the air. Meantime her daughter knocked down the footpad, avlio promptly bolted, Avith the young woman hanging on to his raincoat, but he eventually escaped. When Henry Abbott, a car-nuiu, Avas charged at Clcrkemvell Police Court Avitli using insulting words and behaviour in Caledonian Road, he told the magistrate that the people there had never before seen him in a collar and tie. “On Sunday,” he said, “I put on a collar and tie, and went out with my young woman. A loav felloAV called out, “,’Enry, does the collar lit yer?” I told the chap to mind his own business, and from words it got to blows. The fellow punched me on the nose, and, of course, 'I hit him back. What was 1 to do?” He avus bound over.