NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3665, 14 July 1927, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

“Guid-bye tae New Zealand, wi’ yer ol’ widden hooses and nae Saturday niclits. I’m gan’ hame tae Bonnie Scotland tae me braw wee’ hoose ' and ma guid Saturday niclits.” These were the parting words of a 'Scots lassie from the top deck of the Aorangi when the liner drew away from the Auckland wharf on her last trip.

A trade journal says: “One does not benefit a man by helping him to buy something he cannot afford. Indeed, it has been said that credit is a worse evil than drink to the poorer classes. Every year a certain number of people are summoned for debt, and in many cases the creditor is the real offender and the debtor is the victim. It is a pity judges have not the power to send the creditor to prison with the debtor in flagrant cases of usurious persecution.”

At the Excelsior Hotel at Dunedin on Saturday a man tendered a pound note in payment for a bottle of whisky, and as the barman was getting the change from the cash register .the purchaser asked to

have 'the cork drawn. The barman left the till open and began to comply with the request, but as he was bending to draw the cork, the stranger leaned over, and, grabbing a handful of notes from the till, made a hasty exit. The licensee of the hotel estimates his loss at between £ls and £2O. Miss Constance Talmadge and Miss Anita Stewart, movie stars, will sue for divorce, states a Press message from Montreal. Miss Talmadge, who was twice divorced from foreign husbands, has now been separated for many months from her husband, Captain Alastair Mackintosh, formerly of the British Army. She will sue on the grounds of desertion. Miss Stewart, who was married eight years ago to a wealthy Washington resident named Rudy Cameron Brennen, will sue on the grounds of incompatibility of temper.