GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2553, 10 March 1923, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Pictures of robins, holly, and so on came into use on Christmas cards ill 1802,

A linen deal involving' £250,000, has been completed in Belfast. Mr Herbert Young, a New York merchant, lias purchased (ho entire stock of a big linen firm in liquidation in Belfast, together with goods at various bleach greens in the north of Ireland, and this will help many firms with surplus stock on hand. A 74-year-old Breach farmer named Noel has just received a Christmas present which makes his name seem a happy augury. He and his four sons have come into the inheritance of a fortune of £220,000. It has been left by another son, who went to Canada many years ago. Old Noel is still looking after his farm near Toul, helped by bis sons. Exciting exploits were seen recently during a run of the Ullswater Hounds in the neighbourhood of Dilchbarrow Crag, in the Cumberland Lake District. The fox took refuge in an almost inaccessible part of the crag. The hounds could not reach him. Two long ropes were, therefore, obtained from a hillside farm, and a young man among the field, Mr William Cowen, volunteered to -descend nearly 100 feet down the face of the precipitous crag. He drove the fox from its lair and after jumping from rock to rock, it took refuge again in an equally difficult place to reach. He was driven out by- similar methods. Reynard then made for the valley where the hounds killed. On hearing the Penrith fire alarm sounded, a fireman named James Westmoreland, ran to the fire station, and died on reaching it. A doctor at the inquest said that the transition from the man lying on his back in bed and hurrying to the fire station meant multiplying the beat of the heart four times. A verdict of death from heart failure was returned.