GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2388, 4 February 1922, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The Rev. John le Fleming, of Tonbridge, died recently, aged 80 years. He enjoyed the unique distinction of being ordained in his 77th year a curate pf St. Saviour’s Church, Tonbridge. This was during the war, when clergymen were required as army chaplains. Frank Gooseby, a dairyman, was taken from his home at Beggs, Oklahoma, one night recently by 20 masked men, bound to a telephone pole and lashed across his bare back with a blacksnake whip. A newspaper man taken with the party was said to have told the police the abductors informed him the lashing was administered because Gooseby had been seen to whip his wife and children.

An elderly woman living at Creeche Bottom, Dorset, who appeared at Wareham County Court to answer a summons against her husband, a man of 72, told Judge Hyslop Maxwell that her husband lived in an old railway carriage, while she herself occupied a cottage. The Judge: “Why did you marry him?” —“I don’t know. I suppose I married him for someone to speak to.” “If you don’t live in the same house you don’t get much opportunity |o speak to him.”—“Oh, I go to and fro and ‘does’ for him every morning.”

When on his way home, a diamond broker named Isaac Bernstein was waylaid and robbed at- Highbury, London, on a recent night. He was accosted by three men, one of whom knocked him down by a blow in the face. The aggressor’s confederates then took from Bernstein a portfolio, which contained 11 packages of diamonds, said to be worth £I,OOO. The thieves also took two £5 notes and a number of £1 Treasury notes from their victim.

- A woman who was found lying drunk and incapable in an East London street had £lOl 7s 7id in her possession. It was made up of notes, gold, silver, and copper. In reply to the magistrate, the woman said the money was her life savings. “I am going to take 10s of that gold away from you,” said Mr Rooth, “and I would advise you not to disclose where you live except to the police. Women have been murdered for smaller sums than that.” The magistrate further advised the woman to put the money in some respectable bank. Men in search of adventure or a new sensation are advised to try hunting wild horses in the Okanogan Hills, State of Washington, near the Canadian border. There are several thousand untamable animals in this unsurveyed region against whom settlers on agricultural land have begun a war of extermination. The wild steeds demolish fences, entice away domesticated horses, and often large herds chase cows and sheep to death. Domestic horses which mingle with wild ones rapidly revert to the outlaw nature. One sleek black slallion, carrying an unusually long silky mane and massive tail, is known to have in his harem nearly 300 mares of all ages and colours. He carefully guards them from other herds. Many of the animals are now being shot on sight.