GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2451, 8 July 1922, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

An extraordinary story of how a farmer, Mr Sydney Peters, when attacked by a stray bull, was saved by a herd of his own cows comes from Mold, Flintsshire. Finding a bull on his land, Mr Peters endeavoured to turn out the intruder, which charged him and threw him three times. The cows stopped grazing, surrounded the prostrate farmer, and guarded him until help arrived. A pilot’s love for the Union Jack is shown in the will of David Tamlin, a master mariner, of Swanson, who died last. February. He stated: — I desire that no display of flowers or mournings may be made at my burial. Mv coffin to be wrapped in the Union Jack, of which flag I feel so proud.” He piloted the late King Edward’s yacht, Britannia, on several occasions. His age was 79, and he left £1,530. Having fa'iled to commit suicide by cutting his throat until a safetyrazor blade, a man on trial at Vienna on charges of burglary, broke into pieces metal forks, spoons and oilier table furnishings in bis cell, and swallowed the fragments. Altogether the man “ate” no less than 6Alb. of iron. Notwithstanding, lie was able to appear in court for trial bul had to undergo an operation before beginning to serve hik sentence of four years’ imprisonment. Two Warsaw boys, Bernard Zuohter, aged fifteen, and his brother Henry, aged nine, were drowned while having a bath at their home. Their mother tapped at the door of the bathroom to ask how they had enjoyed the bath. No answer came. She forced the door, and found her two sons dead in the water, embracing each other. The elder boy had died of heart failure. As he was collapsing he clutched at his brother and dragged him below the surface. Mr Albert Heywood, an undertaker, of Rochdale, who has died, once restored an apparently dead man to life. The “corpse,” a young commercial traveller, who had contracted pneumonia, was being measured by Mr Heywood, when it moved slightly. The undertaker summoned the young man’s sister, and together they managed to revive him. It is. supposed that the removal of the pillow from under his head had quickened the circulation, and restored vitality. London litis recently been producing tons of ice cream. Hard-froz-en blocks of ice cream were introduced last year, and proved so popular that one big.catering firm, who already have the largest ice-cream plant in Europe, are about to enlarge it, so that it will produce thirty thousand ice cream blocks, an hour, instead of five thousand as at present. This means that, working twelve hours a day for six days, the plant would turn out more than two million blocks a week —enough for all the picnics. Anton Kancirra has been released from Prince Albert (Canada) penitentiary where he served three years for a crime he never committed. In Regina John Shalavelo has been on trial on h charge of conspiring his nephew ,to have Kancirra convicted. The nephew, Mike Shalavelo, has confessed to the crime for which Kancirra was punished. He says it was he who placed ties across the C.P.R. «tracks and not Kancirra. He alleged his uncle carefully schooled him to tell a story that would convict Kancirra. “The body was not identified at the first hearing, but after it was put in the formalin chamber at-the mortuary the features became recognisable and identification was possible.” Dr. Waldo, London, made this statement, at an inquest on Philip Hertz, a commission agent, whose body was found in the Thames. It was stated that Hertz disappeared after he had been remanded at Old Street Police Court on a charge of being concerned with others in keeping a betting house. A verdict of “Found drowned” was returned.