GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2547, 24 February 1923, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

While out to shoot wild buck in the mountains in the region of Seealp, in the Canton of Appenzell four local sportsmen fell from Altenalp. Three of the party escaped, but the fourth was buried beneath a great niass of snow. "While loading up at a sand pit, Herbert Sibley, a farm carter of Chobham, Surrey, was buried by a fall under two tons of sand-. His head fortunately remained uncovered, and he was discovered by a little girl, who brought help. Sibley was dug out exhausted but not seriously injured. The following is given in an English magazine as a specimen of Turkish humour: An uncle often reproved a youth for his reckless doings, and was in the habit of saying: be a man.” Years later the nephew wrote — “You told me, uncle, that I would never be a man, yet now I am Prime Minister.” The uncle replied—“l did not. tell you .that you would never be a Prime Minister.” Depressed by the loss of her favourite dog, Clara Kinsman, 37, of Falmouth, committed suicide by gas poisoning. Jane Johns, a servant, said at the inquest- that when she mentioned the dog to her mistress she received the reply, “Oh, don’t mention it to me; it is heartbreaking for his name to be brought up.” A verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned. Two hundred school children were in danger recently when a prize bull ran amok at Bromley, in Kent. While being driven to an exhibition pen, adjoining a local butcher’s shop the bull escaped 1 . After dashing in and' out of several front gardens, and knocking down a baker’s barrow, the animal darted into the playground of the National School. There was a panic among the 200 children in the playground. t The animal was captured after a struggle.