NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2843, 7 February 1925, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

It is an unusual occurrence for a hull to gore a cow, but on a farm in Tliakara yesterday while the cows were in a yard, the bull charged one cow, knocked her over and attacked her in a most ferocious manner. Attempts to drive the maddened beast away proved unsuccessful and finally it had to be shot. The covf was very badly hurt and was also destroyed says the Otaki Mail.

In the course of a debate on the foreign estimates the French Chamber of Deputies approved by 314 votes to 250, Herriot’s policy in favour of; the abolition of the Embassy at the Vatican, which was treated as a vote of contidenee. Harriot agreed to inclusion in the estimates of a provision for a mission to the Vatican to represent Al-sace-Lorraine, which has a special concordat with the Holy See. The Vatican, in pursuance of its policy of stamping out modernism excommunicated Monsignor Botnajnti, professor of religion in tins Koine University. Catholics arc warned not to mad bis books or to attend his .lectures which have altracted increasing attendances of young people. The decision caused great excitement because it is the first excommunication since the ease of Father Tyrrell, the Irish Jesuit in 1 DOT.

The law does not always recognise llie little services of friendship or gratitude. A motor cyclist who was giving a passenger a ride on the carrier of his machine, passed a policeman,-and, in order that; his friend would not have his number taken by the officer for pillion riding, the passenger placed his hat over the number plate. He was subsequently lined 10/- for hindering a constable in the execution of his dut v.

Apparently there was trouble in one of the departments of the railway a couple of weeks ago. A pedigree pig, contained in a large crate, w;is deposited in an ordinary van in which a large number of bundles of a weekly paper were also carried. Evidently the attraction of the paper appealed to the pig. When the opportunity arrived and the want of space to accommodate incoming luggage forced the bundles of papers up against the crate, the travelling porker got very busy. The wreck ho made of the bundles of papers can he better imagined than described. There was trouble in the Railway Department over the damage sustained.