NEWS-AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2612, 28 July 1923, Page 4

NEWS-AND NOTES.

A scheme is afoot to give Manchester the “finest hotel in Europe.” There will be 700 bedrooms, a spacious tea-garden and palm court, and one end of the building will be a shopping arcade. A syndicate proposes to carry out the scheme at the Victoria Buildings which includes the Victoria Hotel and has offered to buy the block from the corporation for £400,000. The capital is entirely English.

“It. was a very gallant act. A man of 73 might well have been excused doing what you did,” said the Woolwich magistrate to John Blaney, 73, who, fully dressed, .lumped in the Thames and rescued a boy of five. Blaney was awarded the Carnegie hero fund certificate and the Royal Humane Society’s testimonial on vellum. The Carnegie Trust has placed Blaney’s name on the roll of heroes and awarded him 10s a week for a year. After she had fractured her spine by jumping from a bedroom window, Mrs Rose Willson, aged 34, the wife of a Gillinghame shipwright, walked a mile to her sister’s house. She was taken to hospital, and died from her injury. At an inquest her husband said she had worried because they could not get a house and had had to live in rooms. Suicide during temporary insanity was the verdict.