GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2562, 3 April 1923, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

How a little girl’s solicitude for her doll led to her death was told at a Paddington inquest on Winifred Margaret Grange, aged three years. The mother said that on

Christmas Day while the child was drying the doll’s clothes <>n the fire guard in front of the kitchen grate, her own clothing caught lire. A verdict of accidental death was recorded.

A Hammersmith woman has just received a reply to a letter she wrote to the Postmaster-General ten years ago. She complained in September l'Jifi that a telegram had taken too long to reach her. The reply states that the delay to the telegram was “due to an unfortunate oversight.” The other delay is not mentioned. “I do not see what earthly good it could do to give whisky to a child not two years old,” said flic* coroner at a .Maryport (Cumberland) in<lties!, it was staled that a woman At Kedear (England) recently a large crab was observed running along the sands with a sparrow held last in one of its claws. The bird made frantic efforts to get free by picking at its captor. After running some 40 yards the crab went into- the sea, and it was only after it received a blow from a spectator s walking stick that it released its hold. Tlie bird then Hew away with

broken leg. A lion tamer named Rene lvnnoff,

who was giving a performance in a iravelling; show at JJuzcl, in trance, has been severely bitten by a lioness. The animal had shown signs oi excitement all the time the man was in the cage, and when he tried to put his head in the lioness’ mouth she cosed her jaws and bit his cheek and lower lip.