GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2328, 13 September 1921, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A thrilling adventure befell a party of four which left Gloekential, near Thun, in a hplloon. Soon after leaving the ground the balloon was lost to sight. Nothing was heard of it until the following day, when the occupants arrived at Innertflirchen and told the astonished villagers that after an exciting journey among the Alps the balloon landed safely on the Gauli Glacier. The Rev. B. G. Bourchier, vicar of Hampstead Garden Suburb, says he intends to protest from his pulpit against the wearing by women in his church of what he calls ‘appalling:” hats. “I think it is selfish of women to wear large hats in church,” he said. “Large hats block people’s view of the church, and are, in my opinion, irreverent. I have expressed my view to my congregation, and several women are now wearing mantillas.” At an inquest on Margaret Wilson, 04, a. widow of independent means, of South Kensington, it was slated that she was undergoing treatment for arthritis of the hands. One night, when she was lighting a cigarette the cotton-wool in which her hands were wrapped caught (ire. When she tried to pul out the (lames her blouse caught fire, and she was badly burned about the chest, hands, and wrists. Blood followed, and she died three days later. Parisians recently had the unexpected sight of a pig hunt in the middle of the city. A market cart ,m its way to the central markets with live pigs overturned in the Faubourg St. Martin. In a few minutes, the animals went at tall -peed along the street. Cyclists and police armed with lassos gave a Wild West touch to the hunt, and there was much merriment when one sturdy pig, with a lasso fairly round its neck, struggled so much that a policeman was pulled to the ground and the animal got away again. It was only after a hunt of two hours that the last of the runaways was captured.