NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2922, 13 August 1925, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A Blackburn Rover’s supporter turned up at a Cup-tie football match, with his hair cropped short and his head painted blue and while —the Rover’s colours. Battle Bridge, now King’s Cross, is the traditional site of the great battle between Boadicea, the Queen of the Iceni, a British tribe who inhabited Norfolk and Suffolk, and Suetonius Paulinas, the Roman general. The bridge was over the River Fleet.

In two cases brought by wives against husbands in the Viennese Courts recently, the pet cat or dog oil the lady was given as the real cause of unhappiness. In one instance, th<‘ husband said his wife fed her dog first and gave him what was left. One of; the highest passes in England and Wales is that of Bwlcli-y-Groes (1,!)50ft.), in the wild but most beautiful country between Dinas Mawddwy and Bala. If is a favourite test in motor trials, and ninny n. enr Ims I’ouiul it too severe a lost*. The Due de Nemours, a descendant of Louis Phillips of France, is visitiim- Lord and Lady Kodney, who have a ranch at Fort Saskatchewan, near Edmonton, Alberta. It is quire a ranch near that of the Prince of Whies in Alberta, staled that the duke expects to acIn consequence of a notice issued l,v the Wanganui Harbour Board to ilie owners of tbe wrecked Cyreiia, Messrs. I). K. Blair (surveyor to Lloyd’s) and A. S. Long (representing the owners), waited on the chairman of the Harbour Boaid. The notice served was practically a demand that the owners remove the vessel, which the board considered would, from her position, constitute a menace to navigation. The conference between the parties \\ as more or less a failure, it claimed that as portions ot the steamer do not endangci na\ i D a lion the board has no power to compel the owners to remove the wreck. Nevertheless, it 'to lay an anchor from the atteipart and so obviate possibility of i this section of the Cyrena wandering.