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GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A general strike has been declared by Italian railway employees, -following a fight between some of their number and a train-load of Fascist who were journeying to Rome to the Fnscisti Congress. The disturbance was caused by the resentment of the Fascisti at the whistling of engines at a certain point which they passed en route, whistling being very insulting in Italy. One railwayman was killed, and a number of men on both sides weie badly handled. Passengers and tourists were held up all over the province of Rome. Fascisti are young Italians opposed to Socialism and Communism.

Relatives and friends of Leon E. Smith, a young.man of Wilminington, North Carolina, who not only grieved over his “death” but ied” him a few days later, were gradual!^convinced by the argument *of his hale and hearty reappearance that they had made a mistake. Smith hastened home to deny that he was buried when lie was told about it by a friend at Bolton, a nearby town where he had been working. He learned that the body of another man, badly mutilated, had been found beside the railway tracks at Mullins, South. Carolina, and later identified by friends as his own. Letters addressed to Smith were said to have been found on the body. Relatives were notified and arrangement& to have the body sent to. Sanford for interment in the Smith family burial plot. It was necessary to hold an immediate burial by lantern light, and the mistaken identity went undiscovered. The identity of the dead man has not been learned.

Fifteen Federal prohibition enforcement agents, with neither tickets or search warrants, lined up with the spectators at the New York polo grounds recently, on the occasion of a baseball game, and announced on reacliing'the gate that they were going in to see if the law was being observed. The ticket seller informed them that they were not going in unless they bought tickets. The dis•pute blocked the line but nobody objected. Indeed those waiting hailed the incident with delight and baited the enforcement agents so joyfully that the argument of the ticket sellers was quite lost. The fifteen Federal agents bunched and tried to thrust their way into she grounds by main force. At this the crowd surged forward and trouble might have ensued but for the police, who forced everybody away from [ the gate. Joe O’Brien, former secretary of the New York National League Club, asked the police to i make the prohibition agents clear out and the police did so, while the crowd cheered and laughed. A poor London boy, who is a prodigy of the pianoforte, has been “discovered” and befriended by a well-to-do woman well known in West-End musical circles, whose help may enable him to rise one daj/ to the front rank of British musicians. The boy is Freddy Andrews, aged 11, of Kelly Road, Canning Town, and recently won a musical scholarship in London against all comers. An account of his gifts and the struggle he had to develop them was given in the supplement some months ago. He sat for his examination clad only,in a tattered football jersey and a pair of knickers, and astonished everyone by his rendering of Rachmaninoff’s “Prelude.” His mother is in very poor circumstances, and has been many times hard put to it to save the old piano on which Freddy practised. Then following the boy’s success, the “fairy godmother” visited his 'mother’s home. There she heard him play, and was so struck by his wonderful talent that she has now arranged to place him under the tuition of one of London’s leading music teachers. She has taken steps to place both him and his mother beyond the reach of penury.

A sad state of affairs was revealed at the Magistrate’s Court in Christchurch on Wednesday, when two boys and two girls, aged 14, 12, 10. and 5 years respectively, were charged with being out of proper control. They- had been living at Rotherham with their father, an old man of 70 years, who said he recehad lately given birth to a child, paid 5s per week rent, and kept the children, tv girl of 17 years, and himself on 15s a week. Evidence was given that the children had practically no clothes. The girl of 17, a daughter of his first wife, who hade lately given birth to a child, had no underclothing, and neighbours had to supply her with various articles. The Magistrate committed the children to the Christchurch Receiving Home. Leading a little girl aged five years by the hand, a woman of refined appearance walked into a tailor’s shop in Bourke Street, Melbourne, one night last week. She was evidently labouring under some mental distress,, and the replies which she gave to questions by the shop attendants were so incoherent that a constable was informed. He realised that the woman had lost her memory, and look her to the police inquiry office in Russell Street. There the woman was unable to recall her name, or where she lived. In spite of the tearful protestations of the little girl, she said that it was not her child, and that she had never been manned. By long and tactful questioning the police learned from the child that her father was in Bendigo, and that she and her mother were living “near a racecourse.” In the early hours of next morning the woman was claimed by anxious friends. They told the police that, with her daughter, she been spending a

holiday with them a.t Richmond, and had gone out on Friday afternoon apparently in the full possession of her faculties. Seven simultaneous fires, a skunk, and a dense fog caused all sorts of excitement in the village of Old Forge, New York a short time ago. Burning out of the machinery at the power plant about midnight sent a heavy current racing through all the circuits leading to dwellings, churches, and stores. Insulations were burned 'off and the woodwork ignited. Fires started at the same time in the Niehol’s Memorial Church, A. Abbot’s rooming house, Black River Telephone Company office, Samuel Beresky’s dwelling, J. A. Given’s drug store, A. J. Steinbrenner’s drygoods store and the Forest House. Professor R. J. Beckum, answering the fire alarm, met a skunk in his front yard, in the centre of the village. He killed it. Fumes from the fires and fifties from the skunk blended into a most unfragrant odour. To make matters worse a dense fog enshrouded the village, and volunteer fire fighters, rushing hither and yon would start for one blaze, lose their way and arrive at an entirely different one. Finally the fires were extinguished and the town went back to bed, only to be roused up again when the summer cottage of A. B. Guilford, of Rome, caught fire.

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Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19220209.2.23

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2390, 9 February 1922, Page 4

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Tapeke kupu
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GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2390, 9 February 1922, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2390, 9 February 1922, Page 4

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