GENERAL NEWS ITEM’S

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2522, 23 December 1922, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEM’S

An unconscious man was pluekily rescued from a well 70ft. deep at Erindsbury brickfields. Kent, by Police-Constable Haines. Obtaining the assistance of an old man of 73 named Stirrups, the constable descended the well by means of a derrick, and found a workman. Steve Diddick. unconscious at the bottom, with a rope round his neck. It is supposed that the rope which bad been attached to a beam across the tup, had broken, causing Diddick to fall. Tie was removed to the hospital. "Your ancestors ought to be ashamed of you if you cannot keep viinr balance alter three glasses ot port,” said Mr Symiimie. at MaryIchune. in a young clerk. Hi* was charged with being drunk and incapable and'lu* pleaded that he oul\ had three glasses of port and tripped on the pavement. Mr Symnions : “Three glasses of port !Y mu ancestors would call it sugar water. They took it by tin* pint, and went 111 bed mi till* heather, and woke up fresh in the morning. Go a\\a\. You might to In* ashamed of yourself.”

While ;i Hock of 2,000 sheep were being driven from their mountain pasture lands to their winter quarters at Treney-d’O’snns, near Uronoble, in France, I lie rams, t right ened by a dog, leaped over a precipice into a ravine. The whole dock tolowed their leader. A large muubei of them were crushed to death on the rocks below, and many others were buried under their tellows and died of suffocation. The shepherd, in a vain effort to stop the panic, was himself carried over the preeipiee. The ollieialr. of the Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean railway were puzzled for several hours by the mysterious setting at danger of a signal whieb caused three express trains to stop suddenly neai tin tainebleau. Traffic was disarranged, and it was only after a long search that it was discovered that the signal had been worked by a goal which had been browsing beside the line. Tie chain by which the animal wi* tethered had become entangledjfcn the signal wires. Ihe , owner & the goat is to be prosecn-