INTERESTING ITEMS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 211, 19 May 1915, Page 8

INTERESTING ITEMS.

BREACH OF NEUTRALITY. Singing "It's a Long Way to Berlin," accompanied by a piano, while copies of the song are offered to the public, is a breach of neutrality, according to Magistrate Nol,an,, pi tHje Yorkville court. He fined Mdrris Cohen, of 150, Madison Street, 3 0 dollars for singing from a wagon in front of 47, West Forty-second Street. A citizen asked a policeman to order the music stopped. FATAL SNOWBALL TIGHT. The story of a fatal snowball fight was related to the North Staffordshire Coroner at the inquiry, held at Stoke-on-Trent, into the death of a schoolboy named Edgar Clffe, aged 12, of 17 Portraan Street, Penkhull. The evidence showed that the hoy was.on his way home from school when a snowball fight took place, and Clffe was -struck over the right ej-e by a stone. The jury found that the boy died from septic meningitis, caused by an injury received whilst snowballing. ENGLISHWOMEN'S PATRIOTISM. t Mrs. Woods, the wife of th , vicar of Bradford, referring *o her experitace with the women patrols of that city, says: —"After walking in the streets for two or three weeks we have to admit that the soldiers' behaviour is all that it ought to be. It is the girls who are the problem. At present their patriotsm seems to consist in running after soldiers.'' NO MOTOR-OARS IN BERLIN. New traffic regulations came into force in Berlin on March 15. Nearly all pirvate motor-cars have disappeared and there are only a few taxieabs to 'be seen on the streets. Horse omnibuses and horse-drawn transport cars have taken the place of the motor-pro-pelled vehicles, and Berlin street life has suddenly been transformed to what it was seven or eight years ago.