GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2290, 16 June 1921, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Seeing a man and woman kissing on Victoria tSation, Nottingham, Hilda May Heuton, p 16-year-old errand girl, laughed so heartily that she began to cough. Soon she collapsed. It was found that the congestion of the thyroid gland, which had caused suffocation, had been aggravated by the laughter. ’A pair of tomtits built a nest in an overcoat hanging in a shed at Horning. Norfolk. Theovercoat belongs to Mr Sims, an ex-soldier, who refused to disturb the birds. He settled the matter in making their nesting-place secure by nailing a fold of the coat to the wall. He is now cheerfully at work minus a coat.

4 tablet was unveiled in the prison chapel at Dartmoor to the memory of prisoners who were liberated to fight in the war, and who fell in action. The ceremony was performed by Major-General Seely,

Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire, in the presence of 700 convicts, who had subscribed for and erected the monument.

A despatch from Old Town, Maine, U.S.A., states that Indian women of the Penobscot tribe have started on the warpath to obtain the right tq vote in the tribal elections and share in the conduct of reservation affairs. Some forwardlooking squaws have already nailed the suffrage colours to the figuratiee totem-pole, with the assertion that a woman head would make a wiser chief than any braves who ever wove a basket or built a canoe. “Don’t come in here —I’m taking a bath!” shouted Mrs Eva Fletcher, of Washington, U.S.A., through the closed door of her bathroom, when revenue officers entered her home in search of contraband liqor. “What shall it. be, men, duty or discretion?” asked Lieutenant, W. E. Holmes. “Duty!” was the instant and unanimous reply. The officers declare that when the bathroom door was burst open no bathing nvmpli was revealed, but the bathtub was half filled, with whisky. Judge Parry, of the Lambeth County Court, experienced a shock when lie read a description of himself bv a woman who had suffered

from loss of memory. Her last remembrance, before being found by the Poddington police, was of a visit, to llie Lambeth Court in support of (he. ejection of a tenant. The police report, read by His Honour, said t!i(> only tiling she remembered was being present in the Court, and that the judge’s face was ugly. “Jt may be true,” commented Judge Parry, “lint it is not pleasant.” A tall, attractive-looking girl complained at the Marylebonc Police Court, London, that a young man to whom she was to have been married the next week had threatened her. She had been compelled to cancel the banns, and on hearing this he had seized the home, half of which was hers. When she asked him for her share he refused, and threatened to “do for her.” lift

marking that il did not sound as ili it would be a very happy marriage, the magistrate advised the applicant, to take, out summonses for detention and threats.

One day recently 21),000 Croydon school children waited in vain, but, it must be confessed, with no vain regrets, for 040 teachers. This state of affairs was brought about by the refusal of the assistant teachers and the head teachers to accept the borough council’s proposed reduel ion in salaries. The assistants were served with notice to leave, and the notices had expired. The head teachers were all present, as their notices do not run out until later. The minding of classes by monitors answered well until the novelty wore off. One headmaster had to cope with 500 pupils, while others joined issue with numbers fluctuating between 300 and 500.

A bullock which was being drive:| through Luton, Bedfordshire, ran amok and dashed through the.open door of a house, where a Mrs Dickens was seated on a chair dressing her live-year-old child. They were both hurled to the floor. The little girl fell almost under the beast’s hoofs, and as it swung round againsl the wall it. attempted to gore her, her pinafore and dress being torn to shreds. Fearing that the child would he killed, the mother caught, her up, literally drew her over her head, and retreating to a corner of the room, pulled a table behind them as a barrier. She heiv self was slightly injured in effecting the rescue, but her ruse succeeded, for the beast then broke the door down and made its escape. A Russian who was recently ox 4 pelled from France gave himself up |(i the Paris police and confessed to having killed his rival, a notorious ruffian known as the “Terror of Belleville.” The “Terror,” hearing that the Russian had returned to Paris, and was lodging with his sweetheart, broke into his rival's room and found the pair together. He was maddened at the sight, and, drawing a great clasp knife, ho leaped at the Russian. The girl looked on while the two rivals slashed at each other with knives. Finally the Russian gave his rival a terrific sßjb in the abdomen, and the 'Terror” sank to the floor. The Russian and the girl then left the house.