GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2411, 30 March 1922, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

When a shoe pinches it is very distressing to wear. A simple remedy which may be applied at any time will bring speedy relief. Take a piece of cloth a little larger than [he area where the pain is felt. Wring this out in very libtvfater and place il on the part of the shoe that causes the discomfort. The heat will cause the leather to expand and immediate relief from tlie pinching will ensue.

Although an ambulance had been sent, to fetch him to the infirmary, Albert Edward Brown, of Stepneycauseway, refused to go until he.had had a drink of beer. As it was still 15 minutes before opening time, the ambulance went back to the infirmary and returned to fetch Brown only when summoned two.hours later. He died in the infirmary, after a few hours, from bronchitis and other ailments.

A passenger travelling between Eydtguhnea and Berlin showed such nervousness durigg examination of: bis luggage by the customs officials that, they decided to make a careful re-examination. The traveller's luncheon, consisting of bread and butter and eggs, “was found, to conlain gold and diamonds. Pores of the bread had been filled with gold and carefully covered witli butter, while the eggs had been emptied and refilled .with diamonds. To make certain the finger-prints found on a cream pitcher and a sugar bowl in the home of Mrs Elizabeth Major, murdered recently in Westburv, Long Island,'were not her own, her dead body was exhumed by order of Supreme Court Judge Fawcett and the finger-prints taken. The body was then re-buried. Charles- W. Hansen, Nassau County’s finger-print expert, compared them with those on the china,.and found them, he says, far different. Mr Hansen declared those on the china are identical with those of Theodore Gatridge, an itinerant pedler, charged with the crime. He also discovered on the bowl the finger-prints of one of the Nassau County detectives, who at first denied handling it, but admitted it when shown the evidence.

A handsome weekly income has been made by a King’s Cross street beggar, who supplemented the dole with money raised by-barrel organ grinding. It has been his practice on Fridays and Saturdays to take out his wife and child on his expeditions, in order, as he told the police, to increase his takings from a charitable public.) When the man, admitted before the Lambeth Police Court that on Christmas Eve he was begging, two policemen said they saw him receive from passers-by 23s in an hour and a-quarter, Tyler had admitted that on that date he received £3. Evidence was given that- an industrial schools officer had counted 21 beggars over a small stretch of_JValworth Road. Tyler was Sentenced to six weeks’ hard labour, and his wife was discharged.