GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2308, 28 July 1921, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Playing at Red Indians, with bow and arrow, two boys were happy in their garden at Peterborough. But the younger,' Sidney George Lambert, let fly an arrow' just as his brother Wiliam jumped out of an “ambush.” Though shot at a venture, it struck William’s right eye, blinding it, and affecting the sight of his other eye.

A beautiful reindeer made its appearance at Penrhyn Deudraeth, Wales, recently. Dogs immediately gave chase to the stranger, but he treated them with contempt, leaped over boundary walls and hedges, and made good his escape towards the Moehvyn Mountain. In the chase the reindeer lost his antlers, which were found in a field. It is surmised that the animal escaped from Abergele Park, and had travelled over 80 miles. In a home-made coracle, consisting of a hen basket covered with waterproof linen, Richard Hall recently paddled in choppy water through the Buttermere and Crummock Lakes recently, there was only just room for the adventurous voyager in his little craft. Tour» ists accompanied him along the shores of the lakes, and greeted him on the conclusion of his effort. A stir has been caused fit Yale University by an announcement that eight second-year undergraduates have been expelled and 13 suspended for cheating, or conniving at dishonesty, in examinations. The eight youths sent down were actually detected “cribbing.” The remainder, although they knew their companions were so doing, failed to report the fact as required by their “honour system.” A revolution in British Government methods has taken place by the arrangement entered into with an advertising agency for the exclusive rights of advertising on the backs of 11,000,000 census papers shortly to be issued. The price ugreed on is £II,OOO. “Old-type Cabinet Ministers would have been astonished at such a proposal,” said the representative of the agency, “but Sir Alfred Mond grasped the possibility of a uew opportunity of raising revenue.” A charge of assaulting Pauline Dorothy Day by cutting her hair off with a pair of scissors was preferred against William Alfred Lilley, at Tower Bridge Police Court. Miss Day, a saleswoman, said she was at London Bridge Station, when she felt a tag at her hair. She turned round, and saw’ the prisoner with a plait of her hair in one band and a pair of scissors in the other. He ran away, hut was caught. The prisoner said In* had no idea what made him do it. He suffered from his head during hot weather owing to his war service in the navy. The magistrate said that if the prisoner Heed to pay C 5 in Hie girl lie would 1 hid him over for six mouths. It was -tated that another plait-oC hair of a different colour was found on the prisoner.