GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2367, 13 December 1921, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Twenty thousand cigars made especially for London’s fashionable women smokers, are on (he way there from Cuba to meet the demand of those who require something a little stronger than cigarettes, according to prominent tobacconists. Smoking among women, they say, is greatly increasing, and many of them are now using pipes.

Ada Moxon, a little girl of five, went into a field at Thorne, Doncaster, with a companion, to gather mushrooms. A horse ran at the children, reared up, knocked Ada down, and stamped on her with one of its forehoofs. She was killed instantly, her skull being fractured. A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest. A rich copper vein has been discovered in the Shetland Islands, according to reports received in London. The lode was said to have been proved to yield a high percentage of copper. Experts who are erecting a plant where the discovery was made said half a million tons of ore were in sight. A London syndicate has acquired the rights of the property. Two Canterbury women, Mary Wise and Emily Price, were wounded by the explosion of a Mills hand grenade. Believed to be harmless, the grenade, a war souvenir, was used as an ornament,«and was placed in the fireplace during cleaning operations. It was forgotten, and a fire laid over it. Soon after the tire had been lighted there was an explosion which wrecked the room and injured both women in the legs. following on a wedding breakfast at Shrewsbury, nearly all the guests were poisoned. In all, 4(1 guests, of whom some came from Liverpool, sat down to the meal after the ceremony, in the church schoolroom. The next day all except a child of two years were attacked with violent pains in the stomach and sickness. Word was received from the bride and bridegroom that they were also seriously ill at Aberystwyth, and were being attended by a doctor and nurses.

Through the arraignment, of two prisoners in a New York Court recently it was learned that a onelegged man holding an automobile horn under his coat so that one end looked like the muzzle of a pistol, held up a saloon. While he “covered'’ the men in the saloon with this “weapon” a companion is said to have rifled the cash register. The pair lied in an automobile truck which the one-legged man hailed in the street, but. the owner of the saloon called Patrolman Campo, who commandeered an automobile and arrested the men.

A wireless telephone service between Berlin and. Copenhagen has just been established following successful experiments. Pour kilowatt Poulson transmitters are used. The inauguration of a general service marks progress in the experiments which have been carried on since December, 1920, when music was transmitted by wireless telephone from Berlin. Wireless telephone stations in England, at Sarajevo, and at Moscow reported having heard it. Experiments have irnoved successful with ships 900 miles out at sea.

A strange incident, which might have inspired a Sherlock Holmes story, is reported from Dublin. A man who appeared to be 'an aged cripple was singing in a street when he was pounced upon by two youngmen. He threw away his crutches and struggled fiercely with his captors. In the course of the tight a wig of grey hair fell off, and he was revealed as a vigorous man of about 30. He is stated to have been carried away “to an unknown destination.” The explanation is not yet forthcoming.

An Austrian ex-lieutenant visiting Naples ascended the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, luckily providing himself with a guide. Having reached the top, the two went down the great crater and walked across to the present opening. The ex-officer, Max Bayern, wishing to test the heat with his hands, overbalanced, and fell some distance. He was able to obtain a grip and hold on till he was rescued by his companion. So great was the shock that he had to be carried down the mountain, where a motor car was found to take him to a hospital.