GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2357, 19 November 1921, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The postmistress' nt the North Queen Street office, Belfast, is the popular heroine. Recently, four armed men entered with the demand “Hands up!” The surprisers were suprised. She hurled bottles of red ink in their faces and fled.

A young girl complaining that her mother had turned her out, told the young man was maintaining her. The magistrate: Are you going to he married? The girl: Yes; but mother won’t let me have my wedding dress. The magistrate promised to help her.

Five Swiss airmen, in a squadron composed of different aeroplanes, flew over the Alps, near Monte Rosa, and arrived safely at Brescia, in order to take part in an international aviation meeting there. The same pilots intended later to fly over the Apennines to Rome before returning to Switzerland, via the Simplon Pass. The average altitude at which" they will fly will be 12,000 feet. “The complaint of hiccoughs is most exhausting, irritating, and depressing,” said Mr. Ingleby Oddie, the Westminister coroner, at an inquest, when he recorded a verdict of “Suicide while of unsound mind.” It is to stop hiccoughs for good. Good luck to all. This was the farewell message of Joseph Eneckel, a retired French chef, who, according to the evidence, shot himself.

A model of an airship sft. long, in heliotrope blooms, was one of the striking tributes at the passing of the bodies of 15 American victims of the R3B disaster from Hull Infirmary mortuary to Paragon Railway Station, where they were placed in a train for Plymouth. It was inscribed “In loving memory from your airship mates who were left behind.” Crowds as dense as those which watched the funeral processions of the British victims were present. At the station a band played a verse of “Peace, Perfect Peace,” and buglers sounded the “Last Post.”

“Moonlight flitting" as a pastime has been revived during the past few months. A landlord who owns houses in seven London suburbs, said: “I can’t be here, there,and everywhere, can I? I’ve been victimised five times within three weeks. “I had some before the war but I thought the army had taught them different,” he added. Questioned as to what methods the flitters adopted to escape detection the landlord shrugged his shoulders in despair. “It fair beats me whether they drug the policeman or whether they use invisable vans. They manage it just the same. .“During the war it was different, of course, because the strong man of the family was away.

That dairying pays with the right stamp of cows is proved by the experience of Mr .J. Peterson, of. Clifton, says an Invercargill paper. On October 3rd, 1920, he purchased a cow for £ls, and by the following October her milk had yielded 4401 b. of butter, besides supplying the house. Forty pounds were sold at Is 9d per lb.,jmd 4001 b. at 2s per lb. Two pigs were reared on the skimmed milk, representing £0 each. The return from this cow represented quite £OO for the year.

A mild sensation with a humorous ending occurred at Normanby"on Saturday afternoon (says the Ilawera Star). It appears that a little girl, a daughter of Mr'Woolnough, had been dressed ready to go to town, and whilst her grandmother was getting ready the little one Mysteriously disappeared. Search was made by neighbours and ..various children, assisted by the local constable, but without avail, and it was not until some hours afterwards that the child was discovered in the scullery fast asleep in the perambulator.

A woman inspector from, tlie British Ministry of Health visited I he children at a home at Saundersfool , Pembrokeshire, and found that they had no nightshirts. She fold the Narberth Board of Guardians that she had never heard of people sleeping in shirts worn throughout the day. A farmer member said he did not believe in giving pauper children a luxury not enjoyed by the child of the working man. He had always slept in the shirt he wore in the fields, and was quite healthy. The chairman said that 75 per cent, of the people in the district followed the custom, ft- was decided not to supply nightshirts for the children.