GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2431, 20 May 1922, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

The Quebec Liquor Commission is planning to open a wine shop for women, managed by members of their own sex, on St. Cathi'ine’s St., in the heart of the shopping district. The purpose is to make it unnessary for women enjoying their cups to purchase wine without having to rub shoulders with motley males who now frequent the commission’s depots. Wine will be the only beverage sold. An old parchment in Italian has been found at Bisceglie, in 'the Pi’ovince of Bari, Italy, telling of buried treasure supposed to have been hidden by Roman troops in 21G B.C. The treasure is particularised as consisting of 170 costly vases filled with gold and silver coins, antique works of art, jewels and pearls. The engraved stone indicating the place of concealment is said already to have been found.

Said to have jumped over the East Cliff at Ramsgate at a point where the cliff is 85ft. high, Edward Green (18), of the R.A.F., was committed for trial on a charge of attempting to commit suicide. There is /no other recorded case of any person jumping over the Ramsgate cliffs, remaining alive. Green said he had acted in a fit of temper, .and that he suffered from shock through being knocked over by a German bomb while on the way to Sunday-school in 1915. With deficits evei’ywhere and the Budget full of holes, all kinds of taxation measures are proposed in .Europe. One which is simply taxing stout people. Whoever among • the men of 17 and 7(i years of age has a torso exceeding the fair average will be subject to a tax of .from 309 to 1,000 marks. It is to be paid once only. But suppose after having paid the tax one grows thin! Will the State pay back the tax unduly received? Ralston Lindsey of West Town, New York, has taught a pigeon which he took from its nest while it was still a squab nine months ago to call on pupils at the village school visit most of the households about the town, and even accomtpany skating parties, remaining perched in a tree until his master starts to return home, when the bird flies along. Frequently as strangers arrive in town they'are welcomed by (Dick, as the pigeon is named, who (suddenly swoops down and lights |on their shoulders.

| Coercion by her lover was admitted at the Old Bailey in the case of Hilda Sandford, who was charged with George Coburn with .stealing a motor-cycle. Counsel said that, apart from the doctrine of cojercion, there was no evidence against' the woman. She was a witness for the Crown at the Police Court, and in the middle of the case the Magistrate ordered her to be charged wdth Colburn. The recorder {Sir Ernest Wild, K.C.); “Do you mean to say that, after she gave evidence, she was charged? It is an extraordinary procedure—it is almost Gilbertian.” Counsel said lie thought the woman ought to have x’emained in the witness-box. In discharging Sandford, the recorder said he did not wish to appear as criticising the Magistrate, who, no doubt, acted as he thought fit. Colburn was ordered six monks’ hard laboui 1 .

Physicians at Sing Sing prison hospital, New York, are hopeful that an operation perfoi'med for the removal of a tumor from the brain of John Amishosky, a foi’mer Sing Sing prisoner, will cui’e him of criminal tendencies. Amishosky voluntarly returned to Sing Sing and became ft patient in the prison hospital to wait for the tumor to enlarge and get nearer the surface of the skull. When the operation, which was performed only with the acid of local unaestetica. by Dr. Joseph E. King, a specialist, had been declared successful, Dr. Amos O. Squire, head prison phsician said, “On looking up the prison records, I found that when Amishosky was convicted he was suffering from brain trouble. It made him very irritable. I think this tumor may li&ve been the cause of his criminal acts and that the operation may cure him of any criminal tendencies.