NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2177, 16 September 1920, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

A Wanganui merchant, when discussing the increased price of butter with a Herald reporter, stated that the extra money brought into the Dominion would lie invaluable were it not for the infernal land speculation in dairy farms that it was bound to encourage. Speculation in dairying land was bad enough at present, and in Taranaki it was no uncommon thing to find up to eight mortgages on a farm. So many mortgages were 1 accounted for by the eontinnal changing of farms. In most instances the man who sold was content to let: the pro lit from his deal remain on mortgage. The next man followed, and did the same thing, and lienee the piling up of mortgages.

A case possessing some particularly bard features was mentioned a! a meeting of the Horowhenua County Patriotic Association. An English bride came oul to the Dominion with her husband, a New Zealand soldier. After arrival here t!ie soldier squandered bis wife’s money and even destroyed her (dollies, but finally received a term of imprisonment for an offence of which he was found guilty. The wife, thrown on her own resources, took domestic work, but her employer, finding out I hat her husband was undergoing a term of imprisonment, immediately discharged her. hence her appeal for assistance.

Struggling to keep a wife and three children on f 3 17s (id a week, out of which sum he had for a period io pay f‘J per week house rent, led a Hamilton young man into linaneial difliculties, and in his efforts to get out of his tangle he yielded to temptation, and converted i‘2o of his employer’s money to his own use. When he appeared before Mr H. A. Young, S.M., at the Hamilton Court, charged with failing to account for the .money, Mr H. H. Northcroft, who appeared fo'r him, pleaded guilty, and said defendant had had a particularly hard struggle. The ease was one in which justice should be tempered with mercy. His Morsbip put'defendant on probation for two years, ordered him to pay expenses of the prosecution, and to return (he stolen money.

To import granmplnmes to meet: a steady demand is to do good business, hut to import gramophone cases and to pay for the machines as well is a very poor investment, says the Post. The head of a Wellington linn received an unpleasant surprise a few days ago, when he unpacked a consignment: of twelve eases from a prominent American manufacturing concern, and found that but three machines bad come to hand, and that the remaining eases contained an assortment of sacking, wood chips, and rubbish, and in one of them a copy of the New York Times of fairly recent date. The eases are of a particular design, and are not easily opened, and when received showed no signs of having been tampered with. The sacks bear American brandings, and the wood chips are plainly of American origin the newspaper speaks for itself —and the whole of the appearances point to the fact that either the machines were never placed in the cases or that they were removed before they reached the shipper’s hands.

A message from Bologna states that an aeroplane coming from the Direction of Milan was observed conveying Mr Cohen, an English aviator, and his bride on their honeymoon. Another aeroplane was reported to have been seen following with the luggage. The bridal couple landed safely at Bologna, having come from Milan, a distance of about 125 miles in an hour and ahalf.

A girl’s smile* and imperturbable courage as she faced three revolvers levelled at her through the glass partition of a vault door foiled seven bandits who raided a New York bank. The vaults treasure comprised £IOO,OOO in cash, besides a large sum represented by bonds. The men descended from a motor car, entered the institution, and covered the officials and employees with revolvers as they ordered them to hold up their hands. Then three of them made for the half-opened barred door of the vaults. Miss Lillian David, the 19-year-old book-keeper, happened to be inside. She closed the door, and stood calmly contemplating them through the glass partition in the rear of the bars. The intruders, as they menaced her with their pistols, shouted to her to let them in, und one of them, to emphasise the order, fired a shot through the glass over her head. By this time, however, the alarm was raised, so the men ran out of the bank and got away in their automobile, but they took not a penny of the bank’s funds with them. For Children’s Hacking Cough, Woods Great Peppermint Cure.