GENERAL NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9064, 3 February 1908, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

a cabman once drove a lady and a tie girl from Euston to Charing ■css. On the way a particle of st entered the eye o£ the driver, using him considerable annoyance, i arriving at their destination the iy gave the cabby just the bare •e and then, this being the first portunity the cabman had, he took t his handkerchief and attempted remove the cause of his pain, e little girl, perceiving this, spoke ! ew words to her mother, and then i back to the Jehu, saying: 'lease, cabby, mother says you are t to cry ; here is another sixace.” 3ome of the answers obtained from tnesses and the illustrations used them in giving their evidence are amusing as they are ingenious, rs the Taranaki Daily News. For stance, in the Tariki road case, ■ Thomson, of Inglewood, was enivouring to make a witness make iomparison between the effects of Ik cart traffic and the effect of iber waggon traffic upon the road, e witness did it in his own way. Ir Stevenson,” he said, “was ving along this morning to the jtory with milk. My little dog s on the road, and the wheel went ax him; The little dog came me all right.” The Court smiled, ind if the timber waggon had gone sr him?” asked the S.M. “Well, honld never have seen him again, cept to dig a hole for him !” This is incontrovertible evidence, and > cross-examination ceased. Miss Lois Bryant, who recently t Sydney by the R.M.S. “Aorangi a visit to San Francisco, relates jathetic incident in the course of etter to her relatives. Two bright ung Australian girls, Rita and la Sharkie, aged 13 and 15 years spectively, were fellow passengers i were lost before they reached fir destination. The girls were mmpanied by their mother, and were proceeding to San Francisco, lere the breadwinner had secured lermanent position as a carpenter connection with the : Pacific raillys. Mr Sharkie met the Aorangi British Columbia, and the meets' with his family, from whom he d been parted ' for a couple of ars, was an affecting one. The ■united family transhipped from a ■ Aorangi to a ' coastal steamer med the President for San ancisco, and on the second day t a terrific sea broke on board and ept the two children overboard, was impossible to heave the vessel on account of the heavy seas, and a girls were never seen again. At Niagara Falls recently a scene is "enacted which makes one’s )od “tingle, writes the Canadian [■respondent of the Dunedin Times, diver named Godfrey Thibert on a morning of the sth went into e forebay of the great power works | carry out a job under water. He .s caught by the force of the curit running through the headgate of nstock of No. 3, and carried ainst the mouth of the pipe. The pe prevented him from going down t when the men above tried to pull m out it was found that the rope is fouled by an air -bar, and the ter could not be raised. It was possible to shut down the gate, as would have cut him in two. The in on the line stood at their posts, ■aining every 'nerve fto lift their perilled mate, yet fearing each nute that the life-line would part be worn through where it was il of the ironwork and Thibert be ished down 150 ft to be torn to reds by the turbine wheel. The imp tenders worked like machines, uding an uninterrupted supply of :e-sustaining air down through the >se to Thibert. Every possible heme was brought into play to rease the fouled rope, but it was half i hour before a practicable way as found. When the rope was at st free and the men pulled *. it in ley did not know was~a ving man or a corpse they were ragging from the depths of the cold, xshing water. Thibert was alive, awever, as much to his own surrise as anyone’s. He had given up I hope. He was terribly injured; pt will recover.