GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2356, 17 November 1921, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

An Italian railway employee named Pietro Cerutti has just lost his bride during their honeymoon trip. The couple were on their way to San Pier d’Arena. At the station of Alessandria the husband left the train to buy something to eat. While he was away the train started off, leaving him behind and carrying his bride with it. He followed on the next train, but when he arrived at San Pier d'Arena there was no trace of her. He returned to Alessandria, but nothing had been seen of her there or at any station along the line. The missing bride is now being sought for by the police. The Danish Government in April granted 250,00(1 kroner for the ship Teddy to be sent to the East Coast of Greenland to discover traces of the ship Dagny, which had not been heard of for a year. Cables from Akureyri (Iceland) state that the Teddy saw a danger Hag on Walrus Island on July 17th, and sent a party across the ice. They discovered the Dagny’s captain, Captain Hansen, at Germaniahaven .station. It appears that the Dagny became ice-locked on August Bth, 1920, 30 miles east of the Shannon Islands. Part of the crew had landed at new stations, and the remainder reached land on an ice-floe. Before relief came three had died and one had been killed by a bear. The remainder are now homeward bound.

“What’s in a name?” A horse by any other name may speed as swift. But a man-o’-war sailor belonging to HALS. Chatham had a piece of good fortune on Saturday afternoon by reliance on a name selection. This polly Jack Tar attended the opening of the A.R.C. spring meeting at Ellerslie. The naval man was endeavouring to pick the winner of the principal event —the Mitchelson Cup. Approaching a burly guardian of the law (who, by the way, has the charge of the Birkenhead station, but who was temporarily on duty at the outside totalisator), the sailor inquired, “Who is going to win this race, boss?” The officer pointed out that in His Majesty’s navy there was a gunboat named the Stork, and as there was a gelding named Stork engaged in this race, a naval man could not do better than back that, especially as it was also owned by a King! The man-o’-warsman invested a modest £lO, and as Mr Newton King’s colours led the field at the finish of the £2,000 race, the sailor subsequently collected over £350 for his outlay!