GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2352, 8 November 1921, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Having abandoned one housing scheme, the Birkenhead Corporation has bought Higher Bebington golf course for housing purposes. Notice to quit two years lienee has been served on the trustees of the golf club. The course js of nine holes. ( A well educated youth’s deliberate intention to adopt a career of crime was mentioned recently at the

Old Bailey. Edward Henry Churchor,.who was charged with breaking into a. pavilion, had been bound over previously for a similar offence. “He tells me,” said a detectivesergeant, that lie intends to be a burglar for the sake of the excitement. He says he could not get any excitement, as they would not take him in the army.” Variations of the foxtrot, the American “toddle,” and the waltz are the only novelties which Hallroom dancing authorities expect for the coming season. There will he more dancing, hut there is no sign of any absolutely new dance. I lie best, da'ncers will pay more attention to how they dance than to what they dance. Experts consider the tango would become very popular if the dancing public would realise how very simple it is to-day. When a young seaman named Ronald Emcrton was charged at Marlborough Petty Sessions with theft, 'it was explained that he had belonged to the famous L Battery of the R.11.A. Mr H. R. Giffard (chairman of flic Bench, one of whose sons was attached to L Battery and was killed): Who weic your, officers? Emerton: One of them was Air Giffard, and All ( right,” interposed the chairman, with emotion; “you will he hound over and given a chance to do better.”

“I dived off the vessel, swum the river, and escaped,” was the statement of a lfi-year-old sailor hoy, Arthur Tomlinson, who was charged at Kingston with stealing two bicycles. The vessel from which Tomlinson dived was the training ship Cornwall, at Purfleet. When arrested, lie said there was no need to put him up for identification, as lie would tell the police “all about jl.” He added that “he had had only three or four bicycles Ibis time.”

Conversion to oil fuel in the case of the Aquitania and the Olympic lias proved so satisfactory that the Canard Company has decided to adopt the system.on Mauretania and Berengaria, the latter one of the largest vessels afloat. Mauretania is to be converted at Newcastle :.it an early date, and is expected to ready for service again early in January. Next spring six of the biggest Atlantic vessels will be oildriven—Majestic, Olympic, and Homeric, of the While Star Line, and Berengaria, Mauretania, and Aquitania, of the Cunard. A Torquay choir party bad a disconcerting experience on Dartmoor recently. Their motor broke down, and when they sought refreshment at an inn they were, surprised to meet with refusal. The legal point involved was urged till closing time, when the party was ordered to the open moor. Even a shake-down bed in the billiard room was refused them; but, alter some persuasion, accommodation was provided in the fowlliouse. After a night spent in singing, a member of the party walked in the early morning to Prineetown and telephoned for relief. When this arrived the choir returned to Torquay. A comedy of the bathroom provided amusement at Tottenham Police Court recently. An aged woman asked the magistrate if her young man lodger had any right to prevent her entering the only room —the bathroom —in which water was laid on. “I wanted some water for a. cup of lea,” she said, “Iml llie young man held the door-handle and would not let me go in." “The young man tolls .me he was having a bath when the old woman wanted in come into the room, and lie had a difficult task to keep her outside,” explained a police sergeant. “Bui I wanted a cup of tea very badly. I don’t see why he would not let me get. a kettle of water,” replied the woman. “It was a very embarrassing situation for Ibe young man. I am afraid we cannot blame him for holding the door,” commented the magistrate. “Well, I shall see it doesn’t happen again. I shall ask my landlord to take the door away,” said the old woman as she left the box.

Hungarian generals and statesmen, and a majority of the nobility who played brilliant roles during (lie war and at the Court of the exEmperor, have followed the exnmplp of Field-Marshal von Kocvess, the conqueror of Ivangorod —and recently opened a cigar shop —by setting up in business as tailors, carpenters, and clerks. The Baroness Dora Danffy, daughter of the former Hungarian Premier, has opened a hat shop, while Count Eugen Klebelsberg has become a mounted policeman on probation. Count Albert Apponyn, the veteran Hungarian statesman, writes two articles monthly for a New York newspaper, and Herr von Szepessy, member of an old family of aristocrats, is about lo marry a dressmaker and plans to become a women’s tailor. Famous dancers and singers, unable to live on their salaries, have opened manicure saloons, and the greatest tragedienne of the Notional Theatre, Emilia Markus, is employed in a soap works.