GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2561, 29 March 1923, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A hidden hoard was discovered after her funeral in the house of a woman belonging to the Maryfield district of Dundee. A bag containing 200 sovereigns was found amongst some paper and rubbish, and after search relatives discovered bundles of Treasury notes at (he back of pictures under carpets and in vases and other ornaments. Altogether the hoard totalled £BOO. The woman, who was married, had carried on a small business.

A stag was found by the Willesden, London, police on a recent morning impaled oil some iron railings in front of a private house. It was released with considerable difficulty and taken to (he Wille.sden Green Police Station, where, on being examined by a vetinary surgeon, it was found to be badly injured and had to be destroyed. Where the stag came from was a mystery, but it must have travelled at least 12 to 14 miles. The nearest place where stags are kepi is a( Cassiobury Park, near Watford. Pour foxhounds, one a recent purchase of considerable value, belonging to the Easl Kent Hunt have been poisoned by strychnine which I hey picked up in Paddlesworth Gorse, live mill's from Folkestone. The (rouble occurred on the opening • lay meet early in November. Two hounds died immediately, and the other two fell on the way home. Their remains were sent to the county analyst at Canterbury, whose report, definitely ascribed the deaths to strychnine and identified the bait as a rabbit. The matter has been placed in the hands of the police and a reward of £lO offered for the discovery of the poisoner.

in a case under the Air Navigation Act at Workingham, England, it was stated that Sidney F. Woods had llown at a lower height than the steeple of the parish church, and had circled round the weathercock of the Town Hall. Woods, who is a pilot of the Berkshire Aviation Company, was charged with flying at a height so low as to cause danger to persons and to property. Evidence was to the effort that he seemed lo skim the roofs of the houses, and that lie llew over a school as the children wore leaving. A tine of £1 was imposed. The chairman pointed ont that £21)0 line or six months’ imprisonment, could have been imposed. Lord Beavcrhrook, presiding recently at a prize-giving concert, said he had a particular interest in shorthand writers, because he was one himself. Strange to say, Lord Carson, who was undoubtedly a brilliant man, admitted that he was unable to master the intricacies of shorthand. The ability l<> learn did not necessarily neced a good memory, for Mr Bmmr Law, who admittedly had a fine memory, had failed to learn shorthand. Shorthand was useful in all walks of life; but more particularly to the journalist. But shorthand did not make a journalist. It was merely a very useful adjunct.