GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2431, 20 May 1922, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Amateur actors at Guildford recently had a strange experience with their “beards,” and were unable to play their parts. An adhesive was used, and when one performer removed his beard he peeled off large pieees of skin from his face and he had to he medically treated. Two other performers suffered similarly. Unable to obtain in England satisfactory financial terms and guaranteed dates for delivery of 10 naval vessels, the Government of the Argentine Republic lias opened negotiations with a firm in 'Sweden. This firm offers to complete’ the order within three years. Hitherto all Argentine naval vessels have been built in Great Britain.

During t,he trial of a woman charged with child murder in the Paris Assize Courts a woman counsel for the defence broke down. She wa's carried out to be attended to by three doctors who happened to he iri the Court, while the prisoner shouted encouragingly to her, “Never mind. It is nothing.” Upon not learning that the prisoner’s counsel would not return that same afternoon, the magistrate ordered that the accused should stay in prison for three months’.

For pretending to ho a solicitor a married woman, EmilyiLouisn Banks was fined 0 s at Hastings, England. Proceedings against her were taken by the Incorporated Law Society, and it was explained Hint she sent notices signed “W. (!. Lang-ham” to debtors threatening to take proceedings unless certain sums of money wore paid. The signature was that of'a local firm of solicitors, and Banks explained that sin* used the. name to make people pay up.

Lord Manton, tin* well-known sporting peer, who was killed while riding with the Warwickshire Hounds a few weeks ago. was buried in his hunting scarlet. A farm wagon drawn hv two draught horses, served as a hearse, and*conveyed the renmins from the late peer’s home at Compton Verney to Offehurch Cemetery, near Leamington. Among (he wreaths was one in the form of a horseshoe in the famous Manton racing colours which have been carried to victory so many times during the last few seasons.