NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2697, 19 February 1924, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

( losi'lv wrapped in one voting paper in n (‘arunrvon<hire county division ballot-lmx was found a threepennybil—apparently a eonIribution toward tin- election expenses. Another \oier dropped a 'em receipt into the ballot-box. Mi-. -John Aspinall, who has resigned the post of superintendent registrar of Preston after f>.‘{ years’ rvicc, stales that during- the cotton famine a man insisted on registering a baby in the name of "< tnet oma n.\ " —meaning •‘one too many." I'Hieial .-latisiics show thai tile month of November was tbc coldest month on record in many parts of Britain. Paring flic la-t week of that month Post was continuous for more than 1 0(1 hours in sonic places-—an ncci.rreuee that very rarely happens even a I the dept h of winter. The Seawanhnkn Yacht Club of America Inis accepted the clutlImige of the Royal Yacht Sipiadron, tin Royal Thames. London, and Royal Victoria (dubs for a team race for -bx-melre yachts either a! Oyster Bay or at Newark next summer. Hyde Park Corner is said to he the busiest spot inLondon. A census showed that on one day last, year 5(5,000 vehicles passed this point between S a.in. and 8 p.m. For two successive years it was found thill the traffic (here was greater than at any similar crossing' place. A report hits reached the Bergen .Museum of (lie discovery of rock drawing's, probably (biting from the early bronze age, at Uug.-und, in the Xordl'.jori] district. Ships form the principal subject of the, drawings, which were scratched on tiie surface of the rock with a sharp instrument. I’ll less de Valera and other former leaders of the Irish Republican movement are allowed -to testify in Ireland against the Free State, tin Now York Supreme Court will debar the Free State from pressing its suit in that court for the recovery of Irish Republican Funds in New York batiks. A Now York detective sergeant* was deputed by (lie Commisioner of Police to attend a of “Hamlet" in consequence of a complaint that the play offended public morals. The sergeant reported favourably and added that the play was no worse now than when lie saw it as a- child. A chimney sweep of Duninow, Essex, Joseph Eaton, while cycling with a bag of soot and his tools on his back, removed one iiand from the handle-bars to salute the passing funeral of a fellowtownsman, when liis machine skidded and he was thrown heavily, sustaining concussion and severe injuries to the face. There was a exciting scene at a lire at the house of Airs Gough, Aberdeen Terrace, Scarborough. The lire broke out iu the kitchen of the house and a young man, Air Jack Gough, who was sleeping in the room above and was seriously ill, was almost suffocated before he was piuckily rescued and carried out of the house by Airs Gough and All's Rumford, a neighbour.