GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2307, 26 July 1921, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

it is reported from Reggio, Italy, that Signora Maria Ineerti, aged 22, has given birth to five children —a boy and four girls. Une has since died, but it is , believed that the others, although weak, will live. A child’s life has beau saved as the result of a remarkable operation performed at Blackburn Royal Infirmary. Amy Moore, - aged 3, swallowed a large pin, which the doctors located firmly embedded at the end of the bronchial tube. A delicate operation was performed, and the pin removed. The child made a Satisfactory recovery.

A prisoner awaiting trial at the Civil Prisou at Gibraltar was found in a very excited state in his cell one night. He said that he had seen his mother, and that she was calling him. The warders, to soothe him, slid they would arrange matters in the morning. The prisoner's wife called next day at the prison to say that his mother had died the previous night, and, it is atlini'ieil, at the

very hour when the son heard her calling. A strange occurrence on board the steamship Gothland in the Mediterranean has just been reported at Southampton. While a member of the ship’s company was examining a gun, it accidentally went off, and the shot, after striking the irpn deck, pierced the eye of Mr Archie Berry, chief electrician, who was asleep on a seat at the time. The bullet penetrated the skull, and death was instantaneous.

“The mackerel, being a coarse feeder, is dangerous to eat,” said a doctor at a Walsall- inquest on a girl who died from ptomaine poisoning, after a meal of the fish. Her mother, who ate part of the fish, was affected, but others of the family escaped. The doctor said that the fish might appear fresh, but be bncteriologicallv ■ unsound, and it was possible for infection to be confined to a small portion. A fire broke out on the American liner Panhandle State (over 10.000 tons), at New York, and gol beyond the, control of the firemen. The vessel was accordingly removed from her berth, and scuttled on the mud fiats. It is stated that the- liner, which was manned by a crew of strike-breakers, is very badly damaged. The fire started from the oilfeed pipe.