GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2571, 24 April 1923, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A pedigree bull, which broke loose in Aberdeen, knocked down a woman, levelled a brick wall, and I lien, running on to the railway line, encountered a. train, which, slowing down, drove the bull before it. The animal frequently wheeled and madly charged the engine, injuring its head and body. Beaten back into a station, the bull was lassoed, pulled off the railroad and slaughtered. A much travelled baity arrived at Southampton recently in the White Star liner Olympic. The baby was Master John Marinit, son of Major and Mrs Mariott. and grandson of Mr Otto Kalin, the New York millionaire. Master John who is only one year and nine months old, has completed his fourth Atlantic crossing, thus having travelled over 12,inill miles. He had returned from a three months' visit to his grandparents to New York.

“I found in Americn that Now Zealanders enjoy a good reputation over there,” remarked Dr. E. >l. Bender, of Wellington, on his return I rom the United States. “The American likes energy, enthusiasm, and alertness, and as the Mew Zealand‘er generally visits the States with a definite object in view he pleases the American immensely. I found that they will put themselves to no end of trouble to assist the visitor. I repeatedly had to correct the idea that New Zealand is a part of Australia. It is high time we did something to eradicate that belief, which is fairly common in the minds of the middle-class Americans. Personally I did all that I could to contradict the idea.” In an address to Montreal women, Alice L. Algar, associate editor of 'Vogue (New York), warned Women against wearing “knickers” on the ground that they steal from woman her most potent weapon of offence or defence against the predatory male— her sex lure. “What will

happen to the clinging vine if she lias nothing clinging about her except her stockings and the kneestraps of her knickerbockers?” Miss Algar asked. The associate editor of the famous fashion publication predicted that skirts would shortly become much longer than they are now, and said that in Paris and New York the chic dress is just passing A the door.