GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2461, 1 August 1922, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Countess Kelleki, a Hungarian, was killed while climbing near the summit of the Krenner Pass, in the Tyro], with a. guide. She attempted a short cut and fell over a precipice 450 feet high. The countess, who was an ardent Alpinist, recently returned to Innesbruck from America and intended to continue climbing in the Dolomite Alps. She was twentynine years old. The guide was unable to explain the accident. It was not the fault of her skirt, which was very short. Remains of an English village which existed before the Roman conquest have been found in Wiltshire by a woman. Mrs Cunnington discovered by chance on All Cannings Cross Farm, about six miles from Devizes, evidence of a village, which proved to be the home of a, community who lived in the Early Iron Age, and was occupied for about 300 years. Pottery was found but nothing of the Roman type, and'' from the fact that all the relics were much before that period the village must be more than 2,000 years old. A young woman was found wandering on Blackberth, London, in her night clothes during the night by a policeman. He called an L.C.C ambulance, in which the woman was removed to the hospital. She was detained for treatment. It was ascertained later that she lived a short distance from the spot where she was found. Her husband was apparently unaware of the fact that his wife had left her bed until informed by the authorities of the circumstances in which she had been found. The woman’s adventure was believed to have been due to some nervous trouble. Ten Chinese boys, eight of them blind, arrived recently in’ England to be present at an exhibition, “Africa and the East,” held at Islington. “England is a big noise,” said one of them, Tient Chang, of Foochow, giving his impressions of the country: “Tram noise, train noise, motor noise, charabanc noise. I like the charabanc noise best. I like the train noise least. To-day we went in nice charabanc to St. Dunstan’s. Makes nice noise. We like telephone. Very difficult, to understand when you do not see.” The boys exhibited examples of their industries daily in the Chinese guest room at the exhibition. A plague of caterpillars on an unprecedented scale is reported from England. Commonly known as the “Oak Leaf Roller,” the pest appeared in great numbers in the districts around Farnham,®on the borders of Surrey and Hampshire. The Alice Holt forest was again experiencing the ravages of this caterpillar, and it was stated that so dense were the caterpillars suspended by silken threads from the branches of the oaks, that it was necessary to wave a stick about in order to enter the forest. Policemen declared that in the dead of night the noise of the caterpillars consuming the leaves was distinctly audible. The first ascent of Mont Blanc this year was made by Mr W. Turpin, of Manchester, and a couple named Kramzstyk, of Warsaw, who took ten hours from the Grand Mulcts hut, where they passed the night. The weather was splendid, and the ice in excellent condition. The climbers were able to examine the summit, and they deny the report that the top of the mountain had collapsed in last year’s earthquake, though they saw traces of a great avalanche which fell on the Italian side. They visited the VaL lot observatory, which is on the summit, and found it intact. The climbing season began early in consequence of the heat. Isaac Saltoul, 17 years af age, who was born in Mesopotamia is an ingenious thief. Entering the Winter, Gai’dens of the Grand Hotel, Paris, he approached a traveller who was smoking a big cigar. Saltoul offered to sell him better cigars, but the traveller refused. Saltoul then went to the hotel restaurant and ordered two cases of cigars each valued* at 120 francs, asking that they should be taken immediately to the traveller’s room. Saltoul then returned to the Winter Gardens and told the traveller that he had just delivered him two cases of cigars. The latter, very angry, at once went to his room, returning with the cases which he handed over to Saltoul. The latter disappeared and subsequently sold the cigars in a restaurant in Montmatre. He was them arrested.