NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2741, 5 June 1924, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES

.In (lie past season nearly 12.000 oppossum skins have been taken in the Wellington distrid ami for the last three years 73,000. It is not anticipated that the yield this year will he nearly so heavy.

In a wrestling match at Chicago. “Strangler” Lewis wmi two out of three falls from Stanshms Zhyszko.

The “Daily Express” Paris correspondent says Alexander Radkowskv an ex-officer of \\ rang'd s army, who shot, dead a compat • riot, Theodor Moruzoff, at the altar on his wedding day, was acquitted on a murder charge at Dorodogne. Radkowsky’s defence was that he had avenged the honor of his sister, whom Moruzoff had betrayed and deserted. Mr Bobby Leach, wlm went over the Horseshoe Falls. Niagara, in a steel barrel on .July 2. 1911. has staled that be is negotiating with a rubber company for the manufacture of a rubber ball in which he intends to make a trip over the fallenrlv in .Tune. The ball, he says will he of rubber as thick as a large motor ear tyre, and will have a hammock inside in which he will recline.

A passenger travelling mr a irnin not a hundred miles train Napier had an uncommon experience one evening last week. the driver of the irnin received what he con-id-ered to be the signal for proceeding onward to the next station and proceeded merrily on his way. On pulling up some miles furl her on imagine his surprise to hint that pm I of the goods trucks and all the passenger carriages had been left behind at the preceding station! A trip hack was made and the belated passengers were found patiently awaiting the return of the engine.

The following brief comparison ~f English French and Russian novels is very apt. An Fugli-li novel is a hook in which two people want each other in the first chapter, but do not get each other until the last chapter. A French novel is n hook in which two people want each other right in the first chapter, and from then on to the last chapter don't waul each other any more. A Russian novel is one in which two people neither want each other nor get each other, and round that fact four hundred and fifty F >,o_ found)v melancholy pages are written.

A notable incident in ‘connection wilti the visit of Admiral Field in the Hood to Auckland recently i> related bv an Auckland clergyman (says the Otago Times). In 1888 lie was travelling to England bv the Valet a. The vessel calling at Gibraltar, and when on hoard to al midshipmen came on hoard to return to England. The Auckland resident became very friendly with one of the naval boys and asked him to put his name in his autograph book. The young midshipman was Frederick I' ield. V hen the squadron visited Auckland recently the clergyman and the admiral renewed their friendship of 37 years ago. The admiral was delighted to sec his old friend, and gladly complied with his request to sign his name on the same page of the book on which he had placed his autograph when a hoy.