GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2161, 10 August 1920, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The number of young women with grey hair is so remarkable that a West h’rid coiffeur was ashed if il is a fashion. “By no means,’’ lie said. “On Ihe contrary, women going into business (ind that grey hair is a drawback. Grey hair is due to nervous strain owing to the war. One of my clients is only ‘27, and her hair is <jnite while.’’ A caddie named Alfred Booth, aged 11. of Reddish, near Manchester, was drowned on Reddish Vale Golf Links. A ball had been hit into the pond, and in the hope of recovering it Booth stripped and entered the water, lie could swim, but apparently got entangled in weeds. Another boy, named Ellis, made an attempt to save him, and was also in difficulty when Mrs Rainford, wife of the club professional, heard the cry of Ellis. She rushed to the spot, entered the water, and reached Ellis and saved him.

The, public* funeral at Cairo of four of the twelve Egyptian students killed in the railway accident at Dogma, on the Austro-Italian frontier, was most impressive. The procession was the largest of modern times in Egypt. It "’as estimated to number 100,000, ineluding' representatives of the Sultan and Lord Ailenby and high Government olfioials. Students of almost all the schools attended, as well as representatives of all the societies and corporations, and crowds from all classes of the population. Flags everywhere were at half-mast, and business was practically at a standstill. Large numbers of people arrived from the province for the funeral.

The glorious chestnut■-avenues of. the Champs Elysees, Buis de Boulogne, and other famous promenades of Paris, are menaced with extinction through blight. After a precocious blossoming, the leaves of the chestnut trees have turned yellow, and the branches are withering, Soon, it is feared, there will not be a single sound tree left. Search for the cause of the malady has revealed a parasitic plant which develops in the bark and chokes the ducts, thus eventually killing the tree. Remedies arc being hastily sought to localise the disease, which is spreading to other species, and which naturally affrights lovers of the French capital’s greatest natural boa uties.