GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
The rescue of a Scottish fisherman from the river at Yarmouth a few weeks ago raises the life-sav-ing record of Robert Drone, of North Quay, Yarmouth to 110. Drane, who is now 68 years of age, holds four bronze medals and a silver clasp. A Mexico City message states that the police used machine guns against demonstrators who paraded in protest against the water famine and killed 50 of them. The rioters immediately afterwards reformed, and turned on (lie police, with the result that the Federal troops had to be called out. Burglars who broke into Stoke Hall, near Grantham, took many historic and valuable curios, including about 100 eighteen-century gold seals marked with earls’ coronets, gold and silver coins dated between 1560 and 1650, a Greelring of about 500 8.C., and a locket containing a lock of Nelson’s hair.
“The mass of the people have not the foggiest idea of the meaning of some of the words in the marriage service,” said an-'English clergyman recently. “The other day I was marrying a couple and the man said: ‘I plank thee my troth,’ as though it were his last dollar and lie hoped he was-- putting it on a winner.” Considerable alarm was momentarily created in a crowded carriage on a Charing Cross and Hampstead tube train a few weeks ago by an explosion resembling the report of a revolver. W|lmt had happened was that a standing passenger had grasped one of the electric light bulbs instead of a strap. This crumpled up in his-hand with a loud bang, and so startled the passenger that he lost his balance and sat down on the lap of an indignant young woman. A bull ran amok on the Great Western Railway at Slough, and held up two trains on the Windsor branch. It was being driven to Slough cattle market, and suddenly bolted down the goods station. Railwaymen had a lively chase across the main line and before the animal was got back into a pen several pursuers had narrow escapes.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2547, 24 February 1923, Page 4
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342GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2547, 24 February 1923, Page 4
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