GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2238, 12 February 1921, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

While Hying oyer the aerodrome of Villacoublay, the well-known aviator, Sadi Lecointe, established a new world’s record for speed. He flew 202 miles an hour. The previous record was held by De Romanet, with 195 miles. Ail application was made at Brentford Police Court recently for 57 summonses against a Twickenham film company for the alleged employment of children under ten years of age. The clerk l>f the Twickenham Council informed the Bench that he “will he able to prove that one child earned.£2o a week." When out walking with her fiancee, Miss Annie Handley, of Matlock, was startled by suddenly seeing a whiteUobject moving about in the darkness. She was so badly frightened that the shock killed her. Il was discovered that the “apparition” was merely the wJiite forehead of a straying horse. Milo. Meuter, of Neuchaicl, the oldest woman in Switzerland, celebrated her 103rd birthday recently, and.was congratulated by the local authorities. She has a prodigious memory, recalls Queen Victoria s visit to Lausanne, and was present when King Edward climbed the Saleve Mountain. She pursed soldiers of General Bourbaki’s army when they were forced to cro-- ihe Swiss frontier ifi 1871. Owing to a shattered romance in her youth, Mile. Meuter became a man-lmler, and refused 11 offer.- of marriage. She detests all Prussia ns, from BUmarck to the ex-Kaiser.

Anglican bishops object to being addressed as “My lord’’ or “Lord bishop,’’ according to Bishop Charles S. Burch, of the Episcopal Dioccsc of Now York, who recently attended the Lambeth Conference. Dr. Burch told a meeting of the Church Club at New York that he was walking with the Bishop of London, soon after his arrival in London, and addressed him as 'A our Lordship." He whirled round.' said Dr. Burch, “and admonished me never to call him that. ‘I don't like il , and t never want lo hear it from vour good lips again.' he -exclaimed. 'Cull me just plain bishop. “There will probably he about 2.00(1, 000 motor vehicles of all kinds in this country five years lienee, as against.tlie present-day estimate ol 750.(100,” declared Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, in lecturing on “The Future of Rond Transpori." at the Institute of Transport. Looking into the I'm are, Lord Montagu -aid t hai roads would lie made of -omc permanent or semi-permanent material, perhaps glass or concrete. Speed limits as we know them would he abolished, and on specially made roads the average speed of passen-ger-carrying motors would be equal |o, if not in excess of, average railway passenger speeds to-dav. DON’T WORRY. Do not think that the rule that the bowels should move every day must, under no circumstances, be. broken. It is -belter to go a day without a movement than l" worry yourself mentally and irritate your bowels by improper and excessive cathartics. If the Rowels fail to move one day, no mutter. They will most likely move the next. If not, don’t worry, but take two of Chamberlain’s Tablets just before going to bed. They will cause an agreeable movement of the bowels. Tlie use of Chamberlain’s Tablets is not followed by constipation. For sale ovcr yw 11 ere.—A dv t.