NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2873, 21 April 1925, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Kill" and Qneen will open the Wembley Exhibition on May 0 which is tlie anniversary of the proclamation of Kin" George in 1010.

Misohel Cherninvsky, the youngesi of the three celebrated brothers, who was returning from; America, placed his* Gnarnerius ’cello, which was valued at £2OOO, against a seat on Euston railway station, Lonrlon. A porter pushed a truck on to it, breaking it into fragments. Mischel is distracted.

Eat ana, besides his other attributes, is evidently a business man (states the Wanganui Chronicle). During the last two evenings a circus has showed in the vicinity of Katana’s settlement and a charge of 3s and 2s for admission has been made. The arrangement with the circus management was that Katana received Is from each 3s seat and 6d from individual 2s appointments. Asked the reason foi the tax, a well-known follower of Katana stated that the money wen! to ease the “tucker” bill.

The “Petit Parisian” reports the departure from Belgrade of a Kurd named Zaire Effendi, who is aged 151 years, his passport giving the year of his birth as 17/L Zaire, who is going to Italy and America to appear in public shows, modestly admits that he has had twentyseven wives, the last of whom died at the ago of (>7. His favourite daughter died aged 91. Zaire was formerly in business at Stamboul. He ascribes his longevity to abstention from tobacco and alcohol.

Seeing May Rosina Barnes, a shop assistant, in flames in Bridge Road, Hammersmith, a man named Yarnev whipped off his coat and wrapped it round her. The girl, who afterwards died from septic poisoning, declined the attentions of a doetor, and walked olf when the ambulance came, saying tb.nl -he did not want to be taken awn\, : ;s she could not leave her shop. At the inquest it was staled that the flames from an oil stove had ignited the girl's clothing. A verdict of accidental death was relumed, and the coroner complimented Varney on his prompt aet-

ion. An 18-monlhs-old Edinburgh gill had a remarkable escape when she fell from a top flat window to the street, (Ktft. below. The little girl, Muriel Tongs, whose parents"' reside at 7, Johnston Terrace, was having her faee washed neni the window. She was left alone for a moment while her father had gone to get a towel, and on returning lie was horrified to tlrid that the child had disappeared. The baby had apparently crawled from a box to the window, and bad fallen into the terrace below. She was taken to the Byal Infirmary. When examined it was found that the bubv was suffering from concussion and bruising, but appeared likely to recover.