NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2409, 25 March 1922, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Great daring was shown by a thief who robbed a woman passenger on the liner Narkunda of £l5O in money before the vessel sailed from Sydney last. week. He snatched the money out of a hand-bag which the woman, Mrs Grenfell, was carrying on her arm. The money was contained in a wallet, and Mrs Grenfell, who is travelling to London, was standing on the saloon deck of the vessel at the P. and 0. whayf not long before the vessel left. Her bag was hanging on her arm as she was talking to sonic friends who had come to say good-bye. Suddenly a hand was plunged into the bag at her elbow, and she found to her consternation that the wallet was missing. She saw a man making a hurried departure, and was able to give a detailed description to the police, who are investigating the case. -The money was mostly in £lO notes, with a number of £1 notes. “I must apologise for being a little late,” said Archdeacon A. M. Johnson, on rising to speak at the meeting in the Wesley Church in Wellington in connection with the Methodist Centenary, “but it is a grouch rather than an apology I want to deliver. I must say that I do not like night weddings. I protest against them. They are all right in Australia, where it is hot, they are all right in America, where everyone is in a hurry, but they are not wanted in New Zealand. Night weddings are exceedingly unpopular with the clergy, who have to work overtime, and naturally do not make speeches quite so nice as they do at day weddings. Just a word of advice to you young women who have still to be married: brides cannot look their best at night; they need the stained glass effect to set them off.” The audience was serious for a moment, but there was a twinkle in the archdeacon’s eye that started a hearty laugh.