GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2337, 4 October 1921, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

The King of Rumania will be the first Roman Catholic Sovereign to visit the Pope when he comes to Rome as guest of the King of Italy. Such visits were forbidden by the Popes after their fall from temporal power, under penalty of excommunication. The present Pope removed the veto.

Having quarrelled with his wife, an elderly Frenchman, Francois Beaujon, of St. Mauriee-sur-Mosel-le, ran into the cellar and brought out several bundles of firewood. Taking a bundle of banknotes from his safe, he lit it, and used it as a torch with which to set fire to the faggots and to the house. Neighbours, rushing in, put out the flames, and found his body hanging in another room.

At an inquest at Nottingham on Thomas Sharp, a colliery ganger, it was stated that when he was diving into the canal he appeared to lose bis balance, and went into the water awkwardly. He did not re-appear, and a companion swam to the spot and pulled him out with difficulty. It was then found he was paralysed, having fractured his spine by coming sharply into contact with the bottom of the canal, death following.

The Belgians are not working on the land in the heat of the day. A few veterans are seen turning sheaves and preparing for later on, but the mass of workers are asleep. As soon as the sun goes down they get up and work through the night: The cutting and binding machines have searchlights attached. In the cool night and morning, air both men and beasts work more easily. The citizens of Memmingen, Bavaria, finding that a local cheese dealer was a profiteer, caused him to lie arrested. An immense crowd accompanied him to prison,.shouting “Murderer! Profiteer! Fool!'’ A cowbell was hung round the man’s neck, and he was soundly whipped al the market-place before being handed over to the prison authorities.

A juror in Dublin, when about to lie sworn, asked to be excused on the ground that he had not spoken to one of the other jurors for the last 20 years, and they might have to discuss the case about to be tried. Sir George Fottrell (clerk of the Crown) : He and a gentleman on the jury are in a state of neutrality, my lord. The Lord Chief Justice: I can scarcely admit that as an excuse. You are doing a public duty. I will let it pass for the moment. The .Juror :I am willing to do my duty. A jury was ultimately sworn which did not include the man who asked to be excused.