NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2196, 30 October 1920, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

A. few months ago a firm in Wellington advised having sent to a Dunedin (inn certain documents and a cheque. The cheque did not arrive, and in the end payment of it was slopped. Last week, the linn who should have received the cheque wa.s communicated with from one of the orphanages in Dunedin, the manager staling that the cheque had been found in one of the exercise book's in the school. Mow it came to get there is a mystery that will in all probability never be explained.

In .Now Zeeland we hear of a lot of sensational tilings happening in Sydney, and they do happen. A Xew Zealand visitor one evening saw a crowd assembled at the corner of a lane running into Pill Street, and was (old they were bringing out a man who had been killed. When the particulars became known they revealed a tale to make' the visitor cautious. A young man was looking into a shop window, when a girl, IS or lit) years of age, jsaid to him: “I have to go up this street, and there are men standing there making rude remarks; will you go (last with me?'’’ The man, who was a stranger, eomplied, and after escorting the damsel up the street, showed her juto a tram, whereupon two of the group approached and hustled him, .dragged him into a dark spot, half garolled him, and tried robbery. He struck-out in self-defence, and having in his hand (he knife with which ho had been cutting tobacco, he killed one of his assailants. Next day he gave himself up to the police, the outcome of the inquiry being his exoneration. The girl was simply a decoy.

Thanks lo publicity in The Daily Mail, the Birmingham police have earned the “unending gratitude” of the Australian D.C.M. ex-sergeant, of Hobart, Tasmania. They have found for him the “unforgettable girl.” The romance began in a 15niinuie meeting between '(he girl and her admirer as ho was passing through Birmingham station on route for Australia in December, 1918. After a talk at the carriage door, she gave him a lock of her hair, but not her name. The exsergeant wrote to the police asking them to help find his love, whom he wishes to marry. A day or two afterwards a pretty girl of 25 presented herself as the girl in the ease. She blushingly admitted having parted with the lock of her hair in the circumstances described. She asked for'the ardent Anzac’s name and address, and answered every question clearly and convincingly. When she smiled her teeth showed the perfection which constituted one of the things that had stirred the ex-sergeant’s emotions. ■ She stipulated that his name should not lie divulged, and said she would write to the boy at the other side of the world and send him the full length photograph he asked for. She recalled that she had found him particularly nice. - At the time of the train dour incident she was working on munitions, but is now in business on her own account. The police are satisfied as to her identity with the subject of the letter,