GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2343, 18 October 1921, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Mrs Swain, of Southsea, tripped and fell over a rug left in the passage of her house by a servant. A pair of scissors she was carrying entered her breast, and caused death. Prince Renier, of Hapsburg, son of Prince Leopould Salvator, of Austria, was arrested in Slovenia for travelling with a forged passport. He had large sums of money in his possession in connection with a Royalist plot against Hungary. It was stated at the inquest on Peter Seal, a, lancer, who was drowned at Matlock, that he accepted a wager for £1 that he could not cross the river by the ferry rope. He lost his hold, and was drowned. ? Leyton Urban District Council has just spent £lO5 8s on 100 diaries for members. Three-quarters of the books are gilt-edged, and bound in scarlet morocco, with the name of each councillor embossed in gold letters on the cover. Recent elections to the council were fought out on economy versus extravagance—and economy won. At the garden party at Bucking-

ham Palace the Queen spoke to an American. Immediately lie said: “I want to /introduce my daughter.” And he /id; “Very pleased to see

you, Queen,” said the daughter, holding out her hand. “Hoav are you?”

A Weymouth man named Roberts had an unwelcome experience. While bathing in the harbour he was attacked by a (due shark, which bit into his leg, and had to be beaten off. Usually the blue shark is considered harmless. This specimen was about four feet long and 45 inches in girth. The body of M. Leon Prouvost, a

millionaire, who disappeared on July 31st, has been found in a well near his villa at St. Raphael. M. Prouvost was once a leading figure in anti-militarist circles. He left a will bequeathing a large part of his property to a political friend for propaganda purposes. The flashing of a policeman’s

lamp on the window of a Southsea house was the means of saving a life. While Constable North was going his rounds he turned his lan-

tern on a house. He saw a man lying on the floor of a room with his lead in a- gas oven. The constable mrst open the door, dragged the nan out, and applied artificial respiration. The life of the would>e suicide was thus saved. A man who was continually quar■elling with his wife decided to iommit suicide by turning on the pis in his bedroom from the shilling

neter. He was almost dead when he gas gave out. His wife entered it this moment, and he explained hat he could not die unless she put mother shilling in the meter. She it once remedied the defect, and he gas came on again. f Squirrels have become so nulneri.us and destructive in the Canton if Argovia, Switzerland,^that the

icwspapers are urging the institu-

tion of rewards for their destruction. It is stated that Llie animals even enter the dwellings of the inhabitants. Everything in the shape of nuts is eaten, and the stone of various fruits is pillaged before the fruit is ripe. The damage caused is said to be considerable.

Igloo-hut musicales may become fashionable in the long winter among the Eskimos. Mr Dennis Anoktok, leader of the sub-polar “intellectuals,” has written to Edmonton for a phonograph, forty records of recent jazz songs, and a dozen popular novels. What effect these cultural achievements of"the white man will have upon the primordial souls of the Eskimos is for psychologists to conjecture. They may start-a new epoch, or create a riot. Miss Kate O’Brien, of Philadelphia, and Charles Barker, of Vancouver, were married at Moosejaw by the Rev. Father O’Brien, through a sheet of glass, which prevented the scarlet fever, which the bride

had contracted, reaching the bridegroom and priest. Miss O’Brien had left Philadelphia a week previously to be married in that city, but contracted fever en route, and had to leave the train 'at Moosejaw. Mr Barker left for Moosejaw at once on lemming of the trouble, and insisted that there be no postponement of the wedding. The girl was accordingly moved to a special room, and a speaking tube was ijjterted in the wall for the prit/t, who received the assents of the bride by nods of the head. The story of a first wedding anniversary tragedy and of a young wife’s presentiment of disaster, was related at the inquest at Claoton-on-Sea on Mr Arthur Phillips, of Marringway. While on a visit to the town, Phillips was bathing off the West Beach, in company with his wife and her parents, when he suddenly threw up his hands and disappeared. A strong tide running at the time carried him swiftly beyond

reach. The widow said that some weeks back she had a presentiment that something would happen on their wedding anniversary, and this preyed upon her mind, so that she had to be kept in a nursing home for a few weeks. On her release she came to Clacton with her husband. < if

A church door wedding ceremony took place at Thaxted (Essex) Church, when Miss Aline Robinson, who is one of the churchwardens, was married to the Rev. George Chambers. It was stated to be a return to old English usage. The wedding party assembled in the church porch, and were met at the door by the Rev. Conrad Noel, who officiated. The bridal couple stood at the open door while the wedding service was performed. Bride and bridegroom afterwards went inside the church to the altar, where a nuptial mass was celebrated. Cake and wine for the wedding breakfast were blessed in the church, according to old English custom, and the whole parish was invited to the feast, which followed in St. Peter’s Hall. Several hundred attended.