GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2248, 8 March 1921, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A blister on the heel, caused by wearing a shoe which was too light, has caused the death of Doris May Parkinson, a young Ealing woman. The injury resulted in blood-poison-ing, which proved fatal. Miss Parkinson had been ill for only a few days.

A woman seeking a separation told the Dudley magistrate that hist June she 'and her husband were married in the morning; they quarrelled immediately after the ceremony; parted in the afternoon, and had lived apart ever 'since. The husband was ordered to pay his wife 5s a week.

Pouring out a torrent of-talk al Newcastle Police Court, England, recently, a woman was effectively pulled up by the magistrate, Aiderman Stableforth, with the admonition: —“We were going to^adjourn the case, to see how you behaved, but you have talked yourself into a tine. Pay 10s. If you had kept your mouth shut we should not have fined you.”

Because the cost of keeping up the large rectory and grounds is more than his stipend, the Rev. Dr. F. W. Russell, rector of Northolt, Middlesex, has resigned the living. Although it is popularly supposed to be a rich living, the rector says that when the necessary charges have been paid there is less than nothing for himself. Crockford’s Clerical Directory gives the gross income as £750, net £6OO, less £2OO pension to predecessor. A live bomb, believed to have been dropped by a Zeppelin during an air-raid, was found embedded in the tar at the bottom of a gas holder which was being cleaned out by workmen, at the South Metropo l lit an Gas Company's Works, Greenwich. Early in the war, during a Zeppelin raid, a bomb was reported as having fallen in the district, and the gas holder was damaged. There was no explosion, however, and the bomb, which is of the evplosive type, was not found until recently.

A man charged at 'Northampton Quarter Sessions challenged all tiie women jurors whose names were called. Addressing the women, the recorder said the prisoner had a right to object to any number of jurors up to 20. He had exercised that right quit improperly. When the jury consisted only of men the prosecution objected to one, and then, when a substitute bad been found, it was discovered that yet anotherjuryman could not serve, as he was deal'. The prisoner was found not guilty of a theft charge, and was discharged. Found singing for alms outside a publichousc, Willie Jones, aged 10 sang to Ihe congregation at Chesham United Free Church recently. He was taken into the pulpit by the pastor. Willie was “discovered” in a curious way. Miss Hope and Mr Burr, two members of the theatrical profession, heard the lad in the street, and found that the money he collected was for a' father, mother, and four brothers and sisters, who were penniless. Ragged and harefooled, the child was taken on the stage of a theatre, where his singing moved the audience to tears. The child’s voice is now being trained. -