GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2369, 17 December 1921, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A lonely old bachelor, in a village near Lincoln, has married a charming widow. The pair went to Lincoln, and after the wedding the bridegroom returned by train, and the bride by motor car. She has now gone on the honeymoon—alone. The bridegroom, however, is fully and happily occupied in preparing the house to receive her. When customers in a popular tea garden in London order jam, a waiter asks: “Jam with wasps or no jam and no wasps?” That is the proprietor’s way of trying to prevent his customers eating jam, for wasps have been plentiful this year, and have bothered him so much that he says he has lost 50 per cent, of his patronage because his customers were driven away by the swarms of wasps attracted by jam. At first he fried a eliminate jam from his menu, but his patrons demanded it. Therefore, he says, lie now advises them and lets them take the risk. If I lie wasps drive them away they cannot complain, lie asserts. Described by the police as “one of the principals in the opium traffic in the Chinese colony,” Low Pingynu has been deported from London. Last. July, when he was sentenced for being in possession of utensils for opium smoking, and for

cooping and managing premises at 24, Limehouse-Causeway, E., for unoking the drug, he was also recommended for deportation. His •eeent appeal has failed. At the hdice Court hearing it was slated lmt Low Ping-you had been previ-

ii.sly convicted. His wife, since

dead, was connected with the Billie Carlton case, and was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. Thieves who broke into the house of Mr C. E. Sidall, steel works manager, at Sheffield, had a feast of grouse and sherry, emptied a cigar box, and took silved and other articles to the value of £SOO. When an unemployed labourer was searching a colliery tip near Mr Sid-

dall’s home, he found- three sacks containing practically all the missing articles. Though he was practically starving, he went straight to the police, carrying one sack with him after hiding the other two. Members of the , Association of Corn and Fodder Merchants of Germany are very stern people. It

s rather late in the day, but still hey have at last forwarded a peti-

tion to the German Government asking it to formulate a law which will punish with death all Germans who do a profiteering trade in German cereals with foreigners, thus reducing the amount of foodstuffs available for home consumption. They also request that the domestic variety'should be dealt with. They do not ask that he, too, should be done to death. Does not charity begin at home They request that the Governmental forces “should form a strong front” against him.