GENERAL ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 35, 11 February 1902, Page 2

GENERAL ITEMS.

During the autumn galea, says the Westminster Chmttt, a sealed battle wee washed up sear Pwllheli, on the Welsh coast, containing a musical mauu»grip*» No on knows who composed it The) tune it bow rendered in Mi-fit notatbq, and wt to words, of • celebrated W«kk . hymn, and is mag in all the ohapsb Jpi Walei. It is called " The tune In W bottle." Mr. John B< ek, a German emigrant who recently oroued the Atlantis is a\,. pecking case in the hold of t l • steel*- "• thip Palatia, was allowed to land m December 12th. The Bo*id of Im. migration decided that a man who hadi undergone suoh hardships to become am American ci'.iz»n was fairly futitlvd to enter the United States. Mr. Back has received several tempting offers to exhibit himself in dime museums bus) has declined. Lee possesses a British matron that it should feel proud of. Mrs Westley, of that town, is patriotic enough to tun* given no lets than seven sum to sbaV service of her King and country, and is now giving an eighth. Mrs We»tl" V wen eons are all members of t«e Imperial Yeomanry fighting at the froak Her youngest (the eighth) has row' volunteered for service in an irregular corps in South Africa, end in «-e*Jrlpf * this lemarkable record the War OSes) are providing a free passage. Oalcuttiis tutea'ened with the hei of its barmaids, end a large proaor*ioat of the community violently m»ots li,i-: An order has been issued by the Government of Bengal that a oUaso is te be inserted in the licenses of sfi ing tbe employment of women it* any capaoity in or ab.out the bar. Th* prohibition is to take effect from April Ist, 1902, on which date a number of women will be thrown out of employment. The result is a widespread agitation. The number of barmaid* in Calcutta has considerably ioereised in recent years. In 'the majority of' cas's they are brought out from Eugl«nd by the hotel uud bar proprietms) under contnet fir a term of years, ' generally threi.