GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2353, 10 November 1921, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

“A Methodist born, I am a Methodist still, and I am sure I may say that a very large number of churchmen long for a reunion with Methodism more 'than anything else,” said the Bishop of Chelmsford, addressing the Methodist Ecumenical Conference at Westminster.

About 200 persons journeyed to Snowdon one night recently to see the sunrise, but after spending a bitterly cold night on the summit of the mountain a imist completely obscured the sun. Several of the sightseers lost their way on the mountain, but were found by search parties in perilous positions, cold and hungry. While a surgical operation was being performed by Dr. Camezza on an elephant in the Zoological Gardens at Home, the animal broke loose from his chajns and sprang upon the doctor, who was struck down. After an exciting struggle, Dr. Camezza was dragged clear. He was taken to hospital, but died on the way.

As a. taxi-cab was travelling a-, long Kegent Street recently, one of the wheels came off and crashed through a big plateglass window at a milliner’s shop. The pavement was crowded with people at the time, but nobody was hurt. On three wheels the cab went a short distance before the driver could pull it up. Luckily it did not upset. Australian liugby League footballers who were in training at Harji'owgate, performed a gallant deed at an hotel lire. They were slaying in an adjoining hotel, and Hotter and Burge noticed flames in a wing of the building. All the players rushed out, and hearing there were children in a burning bedroom, they formed a human ladder. The window was then smashed, but the bedroom was found empty, the children being on holiday. Rose Reeve, of London, Ontario, who is only ten years of age, has been accepted by Ihe Western University as a student, the child having fully qualified for entry to the institution. She is prepared to lake a course of French, Spanish, German, English literature, physics, and chemistry. It is claimed for the girl, who has been taught by her father, that she can spell and deline more English words than any other person in her native oily.

A shooting drama was enacted at an hotel at Sehaffhousc, near Geneva, where a ball was being held. A Swiss engineer named Sluber, in a lit of jealousy, tired at his liancoo and her partner, with whom she was dancing Ihe tango. The girl’s white fancy dress was immediately covered with blood, and she was conveyed to hospital in a serious condition. Iler partner also was badly wounded. Other dancers meanwhile seized Sluber and pinned him to the ground until the police arrived. Two young Berlin swindlers, who have been obtaining money from would-be travellers by promising to expedite the delivery of their passports, were traced by the police to a cafe. One man escaped, but the other ran up the back stairs of the cafe, and through a skylight into a flat in the adjoining house. The fugitive took refuge in the bathroom, and with marvellous rapidity undressed and jumped into the bath. He was thus found by the tenant of the (bit, who denounced him to the authorities.

All spectacular criminal records in Chicago were broken when an unemployed (lying pilot stole a police aeroplane from its hangar, and flew off with it. 'fhe motor, however, white 1000 feet in the air, began to sputter, and suddenly went dead. The machine came down in wild sweeps, landing on the Evanston golf course. A terrified farmer took the outlaw pilot: to a doctor, who hound up his injuries, the pilot immediately starling hack to Chicago. Meanwhile v the theft had been discovered by the police, and the llier was caught while riding in a train. He stated to the police that lie had intended flying to Montana to look for a job.

A complaint that courting couples on the stairs were a nuisance was made by tenants of a maisonette at the Marylebone County Court. Evidence was given that the visitors frequently stayed until one o’clock in the morning, and the noise of laughter continued through the evening. A Belgian woman witness said that when going to the bathroom she had stumbled against courting couples. One of the defendant’s daughters gave evidence. “I suppose your young man does not want to leave you toctearly in the evening?”

asked the Judge. “I don’t think he wants to leave me at all,” was the reply. “Don’t you stand on the stairs talking and laughing when the young men are leaving?” asked a solicitor. “No, we get enough of them all the evening, without standing on the s'tairs with them,” said 1 witness.