NEWS ITEMS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10133, 2 November 1910, Page 3

NEWS ITEMS.

A Mrs Allen lias given birth to triplets—all boys—in Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, N..W. Over seven pounds of trout were found in a cormorant shot on the River Churnet, England. At Sunninghill, England, a bear which escaped from a travelling show was found by a baker hidden in his bread-van.

Three,, men, whose ages aggregate 244 years, were harvesting 'together at Wolby, Lines, when the mail left. Their respective ages are 84, 82 and 78.

Because the vicar, on the morning of the marriage, was unable to open a safe containing the necessary documents, a couple were compelled to postpone their wedding.

At Stansted, in-Kent, what is supposed to be a stone idol factory of prehistoric man, containing an immense number of flints fashioned to represent fish, fowl and animals of various descriptions have been discovered.

A man who had his heart stitched up at a hospital in Cchaerding, Austria, recently, after he had been stabbed, has, it its stated left the hospital in excellent health. Charged at the London Guildhall Police Court with stealing a cycle, a prisoner said: "I stumbled against it in passing, and when I was picking it up the 'copper' comes and locks me up." Army officers in Germany get reductions on railway and theatre tickets, and take precedence of all civilians at any social function. Such is the power of the mailed fist. A flock of geese, numbering about 100, escaped from a steamer near Grenock, and settled on the water, Men went out in boats, and captured them after considerable trouble. William Lewis, a salt boiler, was given six months' hard labour at Winsford for brutal cruelty to a girl who, it was stated in court, had the appearance of having being used like a football. The churchwardens of Holy Trinity, Winchester, ask that in future wedding guests will not throw confetti until the bride and bridegroom have left the church and passed out of the church garden. Millions of snails, some of them weghing as much as a pound, have appeared on the cost of Ceylon. The snails have begun feeding on the young cocoanut trees, and it is feared that they may attack the young rubber trees. Edinburgh's necessitous children are being fed on porridge instead of customary soup and bread. Porridge is more economical, the children pre-fer-it, and the teachers' opinion is that they have "thriven amazingly." The late Mr W. Thomson Brown, formerly of California, a native of Musselburgh, has left £lO,000 to the town for the establishment of a dental parlour where the poor will receive skilled dental treatment free. The gift becomes available on the death of the widow.

Mr J. L. Nash, theatrical manager, has had his Hat at Park Mansions, Vauxhall Park, near Arauxhall station, burgled. Mr Nash was one. of the principal witnesses in the Crippen ease, and it was he that informed Scotland Yard that Mrs Crippen had disappeared. Eleven golden weddings were celebrated at the little town of Morebecque, in Belgium, on Sunday. The 22 husbands and wives, whose ages aggregated 169S years, attended church together, after which a banquet was held in their honour at the Municipal Hall. Sir Peter Bam proposes that an Imperial Exhibition be held in London, and that prominent people should visit the different colonies to interest them 'in the scheme. Such an exhibition as he suggests would, he thinks, be an eye opener to the people of the Empire. A post card lo an inhabitant of a village in Bavaria, posted on September 26th, 1898, was delivered on September 3rd last. Postal rates, meanwhile, have risen from three pfennings to-five, so the authorities compelled the addressee to pay double the amount of the deficiency. The highest salary every offered a minister to preach in New York, and given out in a public call, was £3600 a year and a house, offered last year by the Fifth-averse Presbyterian Church, Manhattan—and declined! Several ministers receive £3OOO a year, and there are a dozen or more who get £2400.

Potato bacteriosis has been communicated to tomatoes grown in the Henllys district of Monmouthshire. It. is believed that the disease has been imported from America, and so infectious and destructive is it that it is deemed advisable not merely to destroy the tainted tomatoes, but to burn the f;oii in which tliev were crown.