GENERAL NEWS

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9174, 18 June 1908, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS

A Scottish preacher, -who found >*his congregation going to sleep one Sunday before he had fairly begun, suddenly exclaimed : “Brethren, its nae fair; gie a mon half a chance. 1 Wait till I get alaug, and then if f m nae worth listening to, gang to sleep ; but dinna gang before i commenced. Gie a mon a ch? 1 ? 00 Congressman John Sharp Williams tells a new story. During a recent Mississippi gubernatorial campaign the Honorable Jeff Truly was one of the unsuccessful aspirants for f.u* majority suffrage of fellowcitizens. Prohibition doctrines figured in the struggle, and seemed very importaant to a Methodist minister. “Brother Truly,’ said * the minister, “I want to ask you a question. Do you ever take a drink of whisky?” “Befo’ I answer that,” replied the wary Brother Truly. “I want to know whether it is aii inquiry or an invitation.” 1 The story of a romantic elopement ■ 'has como from Weaverham, Norwich (England). .An heiress, aged nineteen *vears—who will be entitled to £lO 000 in two years’ time, and for whose education £2OOO was left—has run off with a young teamster, whom she has married. They had carried ou a courtship, it is stated, despite the most determined opposition. Eventually, the girl escaped through her bedroom window, cycled with her lover for some mi’sengaged a trap, and then drove to Manchester. • Here the couple were married by special license. They then returned to Weaverham, where they are residing in a cottage. . Some sensation was created in cne Budget Committee of the German Reichstag recently by the -Governmenfc’s admission that Germany must borrow £50,000,000 .y?.ithiu the next five years, even -without fresh appropriations, to cover the annual deficits on thff ordinary Budgets. The reporters fof the Budget, Dr. Paasohe and Etzberger, submitted a propos£ J . that the Government should introduce, a Bill dealing with sinking fund requirements. Herr Erzbergeif.said that within the next five yel-tb't'the.- Government must raise ■ •tli;-p' / ' adsr s named. He characterised this* estimate as simply •horrifying, but.'- expressed the opinion that ■ey-m this sum would not'be sufficient'. .