NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2970, 3 December 1925, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

For obtainng 5s unemployment benefit by false pretences, a mail was, at the West liam Police Court, sent to prison for 14 days. He claimed the money for a woman who, it was discovered, was working. As a thank-offering- for his son’s recovery a contractor at Brooklyn, New York, is about to build a huge structure, containing hotel, church, bank, stores, etc. Ten per cent of the profits will be devoted to missionary work. Rat-catchers applying for the post of official “catchers” to Bakewell Rural District Council are asking wages of £G per week, £3 week and use of motor-car, and £3 per week and 2d per tail for every rat caught. The word “hello” became popular among telephone users soon after the telephone was invented. It is now heard in Japan, Turkey Russia, and .even Patagonia, although the British Post Office authorities do not favour it. Neil Boyce, fanner of Cloghan, Strabane, who as a boy attended the laying of the foundation-stone of Cloghan Catholic Church 100 years ago, was present recently at the laying of the foundation-stone of the new church. M.rs Edith Twidakc, a fisherman’s wife, in England, in order to prevent her baby girl from climbing out of her cot, spread netting over it. In the morning she was shocked to find the child hanging over the cot side with her head through the net, strangled. A young woman told the Highgate magistrate that now that she had a baby the landlady of the Hat she occupied had said she must leave. The clerk remarked: —She has to apply to the Court for leave to eject you, and you can rest assured that the Court will not make any such order.