INTERESTING NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 17 December 1915, Page 7

INTERESTING NEWS.

LADD OrIICI.M.S. The appearance < T a lady town crier at Chcrtscy brings an addition to the. list of posts that have been tilled by women, says the “Weekly Herald.” And the list is bigger than many of. us think. ' A woman has been chosen as sexton, keeper of a prison, governor of a workhouse, and churchwarden And, of more lofty offices, women have filled those of justice of the peace Constable of England, and high sheriff. TAUNTED AS SLACKERS. «. Joseph Davies, aged nineteen, the son of a farmer, was stated, at an inoi.A’st at Rhosnossney, near Wrexham. Denbighshire, last month to have threatened to commit suicide if a mar whom he named taunted him again with not joining the Army. Om night lie was found shot near the stockyard gate, to which the trigger of a gun had been fastened with twine. A verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned. LOVE TAX'ALLS IX WAR TIME. There have been many romanced attached to recent weddings in wartime in the Old Country. A young lady in Glasgow knitted two pairs of socks, enclosed in her parcel a packet of cigarettes, and in a semi-literal sense cast her bread upon the waters or in plain words, sent her gift to the Xavv. Gome weeks afterwards she heard from the Glasgow man who had received them, and who asked permission to call when next in town. The knitter wrote demurely that “father and mother” would be glad to hear of his adventures when he came to town. Jack turned up in due course, and found that his mother and hers were old friends. His leave was not a long one, but the wedding came off before he went back to his ship. The story of how a farmer’s son. Sergeant Crees, of the North. Somerset Yeomanry, wooed and won a poor’s niece for a bride reads more like a figment of the novelist ’s brain than an actual occurrence. The gallant sergeant came scathless through a lot of the stiffest fighting, but the day arrived when he found himself among the “casualties” in Eouen Hospital. Then he was invalided home, and sent to the V.A.D. Hospital at Oakley Manor, Shrewsbury. The sister second in command here was Miss Jackson, who belongs to a wealthy Shropshire family, and whose father fought and died for his country in the South African War. Lord Hatherton, of Teddesley Park, Staffordshire, is her uncle, and has no end of aristocratic relations. Thanks to her care and devotion, Sergeant Crees recovered from a serious operation, and a warm attachment sprang up between nurse and patient, which led to their engagement and ultimate marriage.