NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9419, 15 April 1909, Page 6

NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Pretending to be a burglar in order to frighten his younger sister, Tony Blair started a commotion in their chicken coop" near Nolan, Western Virginia. The little fglrl secured a shotgun and fired, killing him. A Salem message'states: A Bill requiring that applicants for marriage license in this State be provided with a certificate of good health from a licensed physician unanimously passed the’ Senate. At the meeting of the Grand Lodge, 1.0.Q.T., yesterday, the report by the Grand Lodge secretary showed that there was a membership of 2901 adults in the Dominion. The intercolonial return showed that the membership throughout the world was adults and 239,536 juveniles, an increase of 44,638 during the year. The engagement is announced of Miss Gwendolen Chase Morris, second daughter of Mr Chase Morris, of Wellington (late of Feilding), and grand-daughter of Colonel Chase Morris, of Dunedin, to Mr H. H. Vassal, of Oxford, England. Mr Vassal was a member of the last British football team that toured New Zealand.

.1 An author engaged a young lady typewriter to take down his new novel from dictation. At the passage: “ Oh! my adorable angel, accept the confession from my lips that I can not exist withe at you! Make me happy; come and share my lot and be mine until death do us part!”—his fair secretary paused and ingenuously inquired; “Is that to go down with the rest?” , Henry Ward Beecher was a great admirer of P. T. Barnum, and always took a front seat when he attended Barnnm’s circus. Then it happened one day that Mr Beecher saw Mr Barnnm enter his church and take a back seat. Immediately Mr Beecher sought him out. “You must come right up here in front. Mr Barnnm. ■ 1 always take a front seat when I come to yonr circus, and I want you to do the same when you come to mine.” The other day a man and a boy went into a shop to buy a hat. After a time the man was fitted to one. Looking in the glass, be said to the youngster, “How do I look in this halt?” “Like a fool!” the boy promptly responded. The man angrily darted towards him bnt the boy fled from the shop, pursued by the man. The shop-keeper langhed, and thought It all very funny, until their long absence made him realise that he bad been robbed. Then he stopped lau-gbing. After worrying for ten months over the prediction of a fortune-* teller, August Haring, 60 years : o\d, died at his home from a complaint physicians were unable to' dmcoyer. Haring, who had lived , froim birth in Alhambra, visited a fortune teller last winter, and learned' he yronld die the following May. r A few” days before the stated time was saken ill and never recovered.! He is survived by his wife and eig:ht oMiaren.

After he had been electrocuted, Joseph Kotajczak stood JKfelcss on. the rear platfoim of a Breadway (Ohio) car for thirty minutes be/ere others in the oar realised he was dead. Kotajczak heard something scraping against the car at East Thirty-second street. He reached ont and grasped a wire. A bine flash followed and he was dead. The car was brought to a standstill, bnt no one noted Rotajczak’s condition. Later lie was taken to St. Alexs’ hospital, where physicians said he had died instantly. The North Island Main Trank railway, advices from the West Coast state, has, despite a substantial reduction in steamer fares, practically “knocked the bottom out*’ of the New Plymonth-Onehunga oversea passenger trade. - A Poverty Bay Herald representative made some inquiries to ascertain how far the opening of this main arterial railroad bad affected the East Coast service, which has the advantage of the larger . and more commodious , intercolonial steamers. With the exception of the Gisborne trade, which is still, aud will be for many years, entirely dependent on oversea oommanication, much the same condition of affairs exist.

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