NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2218, 21 December 1920, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

.Since Mi' Waters (late Town Clerk oi‘ Foxlon) took up the posi- ( j<m of Town Clerk in MUham lie has inaugurated a system of supplying tin’s office will) un order paper showing the work Hint is to come before the Council at each reynihjr monthly meeting. It is of considerable use to us, and facilitates the work of the reporter. — Eltham Aryim.

A. parly of tourists was visit mohair. On wilnessino' the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, an American, who was one of the parly, exclaimed: “I guess this reminds me of Hell.” A lady standing by exclaimed: “Dear me, how these Americans travel!''

The village (<)' Hoorn, Holland, i:mv begins Lo look upon the former German Emperor as a welcome guest. His residence at Doom, under (lie i lew lax assessment levied on the exile, is expected to increase the town’s income by about £2,(355 annually, being about 25 per cent, of the entire municipal tax receipts of Hoorn. This is ilu> municipal share of the anticipated revenue from taxation of William's income, which the Hutch Government has estimated at the normal equivalent of £104,520 annually. Throughout the Morrinsvillc district the dairy factories are .doing phenomenal business. The season is at the Hush, and night and day shifts arc being worked to cope with the wonderful supply of milk. Everywhere (writes a correspondent to the Auckland Herald) there is an air of prosperity in the farming community, and big returns and record cheques are the order of the day. Farmers who paid high prices for their land during (he sharp rise in the price last season are doing as well as many who bought in years before.

The subject of divorce, by the way, was touched upon very breezily by the Bishop of Chelmsford at a meeting at Southend, where he was presiding over the Church Congress. He gave an amusing forecast of how the marriage service would have lo he revised to meet the views of tSir Arthur Conan Hoyle—an ardent reformer in this connection — if the Divorce Bill is passed. It would, he said, probably have toread thus: “I (John) take thee (Mary) to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold until one of us leaves the other for three years, or until one of us goes mad, or up til' one of us becomes a drunkard, or gets locked up, and then the other can marry someone else, and thereby I plight thee my troth.” And to this he added (he sprightly comment: “Ask any clean-thinking jjirl to marry you on these terms, and she will say, ‘1 am not having any.’ ”

The death at Bollon (Now South Walt*i?) ui' an elderly woman named Agnes Nelson, brought to light an extraordinary rich hoard of treasure (says the Sydney Sun). The old lady kept a small store at Topship, and lived in a tin hut. An old man was in the habit of lighting a lire and making a cup of tea each morning- for her. Decently, when the tea was prepared, he knocked at her door, but getting no response, entered and found the woman dead, On her bed about her was her money ; —and plenty of it. Constable Adams, of Mitchell, was informed, and he took charge of everything.. Deceased’s cash on hand, which' was ■found on the premises, was- lodged

in the Queensland National Bank at, Mitchell, and was made up as .follows : 552 sovereigns, 206 halfsovereigns, 210 ten-pound notes, 480 live-pound notes, 24 one-pound notes, and £53 in silver, including 2,150 threepenny pieces.