GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2337, 4 October 1921, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

A horseback wedding was celebrated recently near Carlisle, when Mr Richard Lindsay Young was married to Miss Gertrude E. Mildred. All ten guests were in hunting dress with sprigs of white heather, and rode to and from the church on hunters from the stables of the bridegroom’s father. A 13-year-old boy, named Pouting, of Essex, was rendered unconscious as the result of a fall while walking in his sleep. Punting, it seems, was in the habit of wandering about the house in his sleep. Early one morning he got up while asleep, opened his bedroom window, and stepped out, falling 20ft., and sustaining serious injuries.

An unusually high tide, near West Hartlepool, swamped a number of tents on the beach. Many people asleep under canvas were unaware of the incoming water until it suddenly flooded their beds on the ground. Snatching a few belongings, men, women and children dashed fox’ safety, but so quickly had the tide risen that a number of people had to flounder up to their waists in water before they reached dry land. One of the tents, which had been rented by seven girls, collapsed just as the occupants were clear of - it. When (he tide receded a small lake was left on the beach, from which people were busy rescuing their property. Twenty thousand rounds of ammunition, besides large heaps of cartridge cases and extracted bullets, have been discovered in the premises of a rag and bone dealer at Luton. The occupier, Cyril E. Hughes, was fined sums-amounting to £25 for keeping explosives in an unauthorised place. For the prosecution it was stated that during a fire at prisoner’s pi’emises explosions were heard. It was necessary to remove 16 people from the building as a precaution. After the lire was extinguished it became apparent that Hughes was breaking down ammunition on premises absolutely unsuitable, and not licensed.