NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2794, 7 October 1924, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

' A well-known racing man in the Hawke's Bay district was recently on a visit to the back-blocks and while there came in touch with a native, who, years ago, did a considerable amount of riding for an erstwhile owner. There was a doubt in the racing man’s mind if the owner was a real straight goer ,so he put the question to the old-time jock-. ‘When you were riding for Air ’ _ ,p,i he ever fell you io pull a horse?” The native quickly responded with: “Py gorry, no sir, but 1 tell yon true, once or twice the boss he say before I go out, Hone, you make the bad start.” The Chinese believe in making •'•'the punishment fit the crime. ’ The bar, for example, is beaten on the ]fps. The Rev. Reuben Richardson, who lias recently returned from a nine years’ stay in China, in mentioning some of,the horrors of the law, referred to this, also to the common practice of suspending criminals by the thumbs, and that of placing a kerosene tin filled w ith burning charcoal on an offender s have hack. The rack, lie says, is employed for the purpose of getting information out of reluctant people, and it seldom fails —even if the information be manufactured by fbe tor hired man on the spot. There are in Clive a man and a woman who, it is said, have not been living on the best of terms, and about a fortnight ago they separated. It is stated that one evening-the woman crossed the river and was seen hv her husband and a friend to be

approaching liis lionsc. It is alleged that, site earned in her hand a six-eha inhered revolver. Her husband deprived her of the revolver, and a friend went for the police. When the police arrived at her camping place she jumped into the river and swam across. It is understood that she will he prosecuted under the Arms Act.