NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2405, 16 March 1922, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

A newsprint mill at Three Risers, Quebec, was started in February. The initial production was 100 tons a day, and if the market warrants it, the plant will be doubled, the output being at the rate of 60,000 tons a year. The opening of this mill will make the capacity of the Canadian newsprint well over 1,000,000 tons a year. Realising the hard times with ioeal bodies, a southern firm is out for business, and sent a letter to the Wanganui County Council, which was read at its last meeting, offering to supply plant on the time payment system. The firm intimated that it was prepared to accept half-yearly instalments spread over a period of five years. “I can't take care of my mother. I am supporting my mother-in-law, and she certainly comes first, doesn’t she?” asked Gustave Widraann, of a probation officer in a Long Island Court, charged with failing to contribute in aid of his mother, Mrs Fredericks Widmann, 84. His brother was in Court on the same charge. , A Maori witness who came from Hokianga in order to give the deciding evidence in a divorce suit at "Wanganui, was evidently not well versed in the ways of civilisation. She had not been away from her home before, and it was on this visit that she saw a for the first time. She had to be personally escorted.

Mr and Mrs Joseph A. Roskuski and their daughter, aged 15, and Mr and Mrs Bernard K. Laver and their daughter, aged 4,, were drowned when the sedan in which they were riding slipped off the River Road into eight feet! of water in the Maimi Erie Canal at Waterville, twelve miles from Toledo. The two families had been riding in Laver’s machine. • They were on their wayhome when the accident happened. The accident was discovered by Will Isham, a farmer, who secured help and hauled the car from the water. The bodies were inside. Apparently it bad been impossible to open either door of the closed ear.

A marriage took place in a London register office recently between a young Dutch couple who eloped from Holland. The bridegroom’s parents followed them to England, and tried to stop the marriage on the ground that, according to Dutch law, they were both minors—the bridegroom is 23, and the bride 22. At fhe register office the parents asked the registrar to postpone the marriage until they had sought legal advice, but they admitted that the particulars given by their son were correct, so the registrar told them that the license was in order, and married them. They did not wait to see their son married. “

The Daily Chronicle reports a dramatic development in, Scotland Yard’s hunt for a gang of confidence tricksters, who, in 1921, carried out a fraud involving £25,000. London detectives arrived in Dublin and took over John Bernard, whom the Irish police arrested at Carlisle pier, Kingstown, when about to board the mail boat. Bernard is an Australian, and is 35 years of age. He has had a romantic career. He had been staying at a fashionable hotel in Dublin, where it was alleged that lie and a’ confederate fleeced wealthy people. The men also played split ace and Anzac poker on the racecourse. When five others of the gang were sentenced last year, Bernard was in France. Later he went to Italy, Spain, and Portugal, but the Irish police recognised him from a description, and so arrested him. An amazing feat by a schoolboy

'caused the Viennese police some trouble in the early hours of the morning recently. They heard a faint sound of church bells, and on entering the' church and mounting, the high tower they saw a boy in the belfry. He refused to come down until two blank revolver shots frightened him. It appears that he had climbed up the dizzy height by the lightning conductor, and had entered the belfry by a small window. A boy of fifteen years, he said (hat he had gone up the tower with the idea of staying there till starved to death, having been rebuked by his parents for lack of progress at school.