GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2542, 13 February 1923, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A Zurich woman, Madame Brauj bought an old table for a small sui at a public sale. She later found i it a secret drawer, in which she dis covered banknotes amounting in va lue to nearly £7,000. Thousands of tons of liquid eon crete are being squirted by electri cal machinery every week int cracks in Lincoln Cathedral. It wil take five years to fill all the cracks “Excuse the safety pin. We ar too dry over here to lick gunv With this phrase Colonel Wallii explained the pin securing the had of a letter lie sent from America t< the JSTore Yacht Club, Southend, o which he is rear-commodore. In an attempt to recover paper; from a fire at Mardy, Pontypidd John Jones was killed. He was teasurer of the Workmen’s Hall which caught fire. He dashed in tc recover official documents from the adjoining house, where they were stored. As he did so . the roof ol the house fell and he was killed. There are four or five million cyclists in Britain, and the manufacturing capacity for the coming year is GOO,OOO cycles against 120,000 motor-cycles. Nearly a thousand of the 11,000 members of the Cyclists’ Touring Club cycled among the Alps last Summer; some crossed passes as high as 9,000 ft. Found dying in a cave at Newbiggin, Northumberland, William Moore, GO, labourer, had been sleeping for weeks on a bed of bracken. A witness at the inquest said he also lived in a cave, and the police stated there were many similar eases. The Coroner said people were “living like beasts” because they could not get houses. A verdict was returned of death from scurvy and exposure. Alderman Dr. Preston King, brother of .Bishop King, addressing Bath Rotgrians a few weeks ago, nsked w]iv (lie State should keep alive “gibbering idiots and cases of general paralysis.” Surely the lethal chamber was the proper course continued the doctor. Let them start life the sooner in another sphere, where the potter’s thumb had not slipped and where man’s hand had not blundered.

Six drops of olive oil to a pinch of mustard taken just before going to bed islhe latest cure for snoring. The function of the oil is that of a lubricant to flic larynx, while the mustard acts as a counter irritant. The cure was discovered by the late Dr. O’Dowd, of Kilkenny, and has proved so effectual (hat no native of that county ever snores, so says the Philadelphia Times. The Culverden-Christehurch train ran into a motor ear driven by Hugh Henderson, a returned soldier settler al the level crossing near Ashley township on Thursday evening. The car was struck with great force, swung rigid round and hurled against a. fence, a complete wreck. Henderson and his father, who was riding with him, scrambled out of the wreckage without injury other than a few bruises and scratches on the face. The car was only bought a week ago and was insured for £3OO. ' Following on a drive through Invercargill in a gig drawn by a goat recently, a man named Hesse appeared before the Magistrate charged with “harnessing a goat to a vehicle.” Hesse pleaded guilty, and explained that recently in Australia he engaged in the sport of goat racing, and he intended to introduce it into New Zealand. He had for the purpose a suitable vehicle manufactured at Dunedin but was unaware that he was breaking the New Zealand law. The police stated that although a line of £lO was provided for they would not ask for a heavy penalty. The bench explained to defendant that his proposed introduction while within the law in Australia, was au offence in New Zealand. Defendant was convicted and ordered to pay costs.