NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3015, 25 March 1926, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

In the Carterton Magistrate’s Court last week, before Mr. A. IV. Mowlem, S.M., a native was the/ .subject of a perpetual prohibition order. Previous orders had been made against him for 12 mouths, but the Magistrate considered hose unavailing, and made an order for all time.

1C Miss Melville is willing to lose her best friends and brave all those small but cutting indignities that women know so well how to intlict upon each other, and risk as well a present defeat, rather than keep her friends and hold her ambition in leash for a more auspicious occasion, she is either possessed of courage beyond the average or a limited share of that valuable quality known as discretion. —Wairarapa News.

Movie stars appear to have a short life, though it may be a merry one. Olive Thomas who rose from a dollar-a-week shop girl to a $5,000 a week star died in Paris in 1920 at the age of 22, a victim of poison. At the time of her death she was the wife of Jack Pickford. Lusille Hickson, one time child actress, was on the road to glory when death overtook her last March at the age of 17. Marguerite Marsh, sister to Mae Marsh, succumbed to

pneumonia on December 9 last. She was 33 years old and stricken when apparently in the best of health. The latest yarn from Dunedin. Ah exhibition visitor had not been at the exhibition this day, but had spent it imbiding at a hotel close to where the cable tram, a squat box-like contraption, starts for Mornington. At six o’clock be found himself on a swaying street, and immediately thought of food. His eye caught a red box of a cable car, and for it he steered. He was tacking up to it nicely when off it moved. He gazed after it for a moment and then ejaculated, “Well keep your pies.” The Great Seal of Ireland, a massive silver seal weighing 2000 z., has been deposited in the National Museum at Dublin. The seal, for the custody of which the Lord Chancellor was responsible, was the only object which escaped destruction when the Four Courts was destroyed. It was found undamaged in a fireproof safe. There was formerly a tavern next door to Gild’s Banking House in Fleet Street, London, known by the sign of “The Devil and St. Duustan.” When a lawyer from the Temple went to dinner there he usually put a notice on his door, “Gone to the Devil.” Some who neglected their business frequently had this notice exhibited until “Cone to the Devil" became synonymous with “gone, or going to ruin.”