GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2291, 18 June 1921, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Two eagles have had a light to the death at Invergarry, Scotland. Withn a few yards of the road, a hoy, the son of a head keeper, saw two golden eagles engaged in a tierce combat, lie watched the struggle, and saw one of the birds fall on its back dead in a ditch. Its adversary with beak fast in the other's throat, then stood triumphantly on the victim’s breast. When the boy approached, the victor was so badly injured that it could hardly rise from the ground, but just managed to escape. The dead eagle, a handsome specimen, was sent to an Inverness taxidermist for preservation.

One of four jury women called upon to serve at a fatal accident inquiry in Aberdeen Sheriff Court raised a novel point regarding personal expenses. Coming from a rural district of Aberdeenshire, she brought two children, whom she said she could not leave at home, having no one to look after them. The children were in Court while .their mother sat in the jury-box. At the close of the case the woman claimed travelling allowance and susten-

anee for herself, and asked that the railway fares of the children bu paid also. The surprised Court officials decided against her. A wife related to the Tottenham magistrate that her husband, suddenly awakening from his sleep, started up in bed, and excitedly explained 1 that he had had a “lovely dream.” It was to the effect .that he had seen his wife with_ a black eye, and that he had found a box of jewels under a tree on his allotment. “What happened next?” asked the magistrate anxiously. “I got this,” said the woman, pointing to a yack eye. . “He hit me, and then dressed and went out on the allotment. and started digging furiously ■under the tree. He had not found anything when I left,” she added ruefully. A policeman was sent to tell the man that although he dreams that his wife has a black eye. he need not insist on the dream coming true. Two beautiful Parisian actresses, Mile. Campbell and Mile. Renouardt, recently quarrelled in a select Parisian hotel. Mile. Renouardt assaulted Mile. Campbell, and broke the latter’s pearl necklace, with the result that' several pearls, valued at £2,000, dropped on the floor and were lost. Mile. Campbell lodged a complaint, and a magistrate was appointed to investigate the affair. A few days later she was visited by a young man, who said he had been instructed to hand her, on behalf of Mile. Renouardt, a pearl necklace worth £6,000 and £BO lawyer's fees. The actress accepted tho compensation and withdrew her complaint. But later Mile. Renouardt denied having made compensation for the lost pearls. She wanted the case to come before tho Cdurt, and asked the magistrate to ascertain who was Milo. Campbell’s mysterious admirer.

English crockery prices have not fallen, according to .information supplied to the Marlborough Express, but on the ■ contrary those prices are to-day among the very few that are practically firm. English goods of this description are still in very short supply, and owing to the present coal strike in England deliveries will be slower than ever. “The statements previously published,” says the Express, “were taken from a Wanganui paper, whcli is evidently making the same .mistake as many others at the present time, in taking the many panic prices of to-day as representing present market rates.”