GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2341, 13 October 1921, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

On a farm at Tadwick, near Bath, is a hen which every morning walks upstairs and lays an egg in the wardrobe.

Judgment was given in the Board of Trade inquiry, at Glasgow, into the loss of the steamer Spathari. The Court found that the ship was lost by wilful scuttling by the chief engineer opening sea communication. The master’s certificate was suspended for three months. A plan is being considered for deepening the St. Lawrence River at ati estimated cost of £50,000,000, The capital cost would lie divided between Canada and the United States, and it is estimated that the water power derived would pay for the whole project within a few

years

As /long as other people are not annoyed, bad language is no offence, according to Mr Forbes Lankester, the North London magistrate. A constable giving evidence against two men charged with swearing, admitted that they weie using the words to themselves. The. men were discharged.

When lightning entered the window of the stationmaster’s office at the Public Service Railway’s premises in Jersey City, George Koch, the stationmaster, was flung from his desk to the floor, and made almost entirely bald. The lightning had singed his hair to the roots and slightly blistered his scalp. A i-elieving officer told a Pembrokeshire Board of Guardians that the wife of a man seeking relief claimed direct lineage with the family of a lord, and was living by faith, hoping that money would come some day. The Chairman. Such faith is insufficient to keep body and soul together.

Considerable damage was done by the abnormally high tide, accompanied by a strong south-west wind, on Swansea beach. Refreshment tents, side shows, and stalls, together with their contents, including scores of bottles of lemonade and large stocks of miscellaneous articles, were swept away by the tide and lost.