GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2560, 27 March 1923, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Forty lost industries in Cardiganshire —one of which was known as “shoeing geese”—were referred to by Mr David Thomas, inspector of schools, in a paper read before Cardigan Antiquarian Society, at Aberystwyth. The way in which this was done was to drive the geese over tar or pitch, and afterwards over tine sand, and thus provided them with shoes.

Known as the “dying centenarian” Mrs Ann Sissons, of Mansfield, Notts, died recently. She was 103 years old on November 21. She took her last, walk into the town on the day of the parliamentary election—November 15—and on reaching home had to take to her bed as the effort exhausted her-. After she had reached the age of 100 she made several aeroplane flights and greatly enjoyed the experience. A French air postman named Geniosen, licked by flames, had the presence of mind to throw out the mail lings before meeting death. As his aeroplane was speeding from Oran to Casablanca ii entered a dense (•load bank, and drove against the eresl of a hill, /flic machine crashed and burst into Haines, which eim vclnped 1 lit* airman. Before he succumbed (irenfosen threw out the mail hags which contained important Government documents, and they were saved. To have the companionship of two husbands for only live days in all has been the tragic experience of Mrs Mellows, a Slaplefor-d woman. She was married first during the war. Her soldier husband left her after three days and never relumed. When, a- month ago, she married William Mellows, she forfeited her pension. Two days after the wedding her husband disappeared. During the week-end his body was found hv fishermen ill an open hole near lkesfon. Neatly-repaired shoes with slippery solos were said to have caused. the death of Miss Falcon Winifred I.onghollom, the l!)-year-old science student, who was killed by falling -1(1 feel down a staircase at Sheffield University. At the inquosl it was said that one of Miss I.onghottom’s shoes was found part ' way down and the other ;ii the foot ot the stairs. They had been newly soled, and had apparently failed to grip file stone staircase. Accidental death was the verdict, 1