GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2361, 29 November 1921, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The body of Sir Peter Freyer, the eminent surgeon, has been taken to Ireland for burial. While a young man, Sir Peter held a junior appointment in a wild region of India. He was sent for one night by the Nawab of Rampur, who had been taken seriously ill. He operated on |he Nawab at once, and saved his life. So grateful was the native ruler that he insisted on presenting to the young surgeon a fee of £lO,000. This did not please the Medical Service chiefs, but Dr. I reyei, as he then was, had for so long desired to be a specialist. He decided to keep the fee and set up in Harley Street. There, by the origination of one operation alone he saved the lives of hundreds of otherwise doomed men.

In sentencing a prisoner a! I lie Supreme Court at Auckland to a term of imprisonment for the theft ot money received on behalf of a local body and a patriotic association, Mr" Justice Stringer said that the judges, almost invariably, except under special circumstance:-, refused to admit to probation men in positions of trust who abused lliat trust. They could not allow the fact that restitution had been made to influence their decision to any extent. It would be a most improper thing if it could be supposed that because a man happened to have friends able and willing to assist him, he should, in the eyes of ilie law, be in a more advantageous position than one who could not make the losses good.