NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2197, 2 November 1920, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

When Anderson, the alleged murderer, was at large, some settlers in the backbloeks naturally got “the wind up” very badly, as did also some residents of Taumarunui. One good lady of Taumarunui heard a man talking to her husband at the front door on a Sunday morning. •He was arranging for the hire of a motor ear for a funeral, but the lady thought he was asking for food, and picked him for the wanted man. She thereupon jumped out of a window screaming, and a neighbour rang up the police, who immediately appeared upon the scene, to discover that there was “nothing doing.”

A lighting parson met his Waterloo a few nights ago at the Toowoomba, New South Wales, Town Hall, the Rev. Chas, Dunn, curate of St. Luke’s Anglican Church, Toowoomba, being defeated in a boxing contest for the featherweight championship of the Downs by William Holmes, a young returned soldier. The contest was in aid of the ambulance. The weight of each contestant was announced at Sst. 3ib. Holmes looked more rugged, and was willing to rough it, while Dunn was more of a boxer. The first three rounds were fairly even, but in the fourth the parson was considerably punished, lie weakened, and half-way t hrough I lie police stepped in and slopped the light.