GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2609, 21 July 1923, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

At the annual dinner given to over 1000 old and poor in the Sinetriviek District, London, part of the tore consisted of a score of plum puddings, each weighing half a hundredweight, the whole of the ingredients being supplied by local tradespeople.

While Mi's Lena Caesar, 22, of Kingston, London, was engaged in bottling mineral waters at White’s works a bottle burst. A piece of glass struck her in the throat and caused such severe injury that she died in a few minutes. Paris feminine hairdressers announce that the fashionable colour for women’s hair in 1923 will be white. Those women blessed with raven locks in order to be in the run of Dame Fashion, will have to powder their hair. The same artistic body decrees that red hair will also be fashionable —though less so than white.

Two blind street musicians, both of whom had previously married blind people, were bride and bridegroom in a Hull wedding. John Le veils Ellis, aged 60, the bridegroom, plays the melodion and will accompany his wife, formerly Mrs Ada Louisa Freeman, who is a vocalist. Mrs Ellis is 20 years younger than her husband.

George Frederick Edisbury, fortyfour, painter, was executed at Strangeways Prison, Manchester, for the murder of Mrs Winifred Drinkwater, fifty, with whom he has lodged. Mrs Drinkwater, it is alleged, taunted Edisbury and another woman with their mode of life, and on July 29 Edisbury cut her throat at a house in Manchester. A cat belonging to a family living near the Hoggs Mill Stream, a tributary of the Thames at Kingston, walked into the house with a kingfisher in its mouth. The bird, a beautiful specimen of its class, was taken from the cat. It was supposed to be dead, hut life remained, and by careful nursing the bird completely recovered. II was released and flow away.

Awakening to find a silting room on fire and a bedroom and staircase full of smoke, a Moyland (Essex, boy of 14 tied two blankets and a sheet together. With these he lowered his younger brother and sister who were nearly suffocated, through the bedroom window to the ground. Neighbours eventually succeeded in putting out the fire and the boy escaped in safety. On returning to his home at Stanley, a village in Derbyshire, Walter Hancock, colliery fireman, found his wife Amiie, affect 28, on the bedroom floor unconscious. On the lied were his two children —Frank, aged two years, and Erie, aged three weeks —also uneonsrious. There v,as evidence that all three had drunk disinfectant. The woman and the baby died. The elder child escaped death after a critical illness.