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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4011, 10 June 1920, Page 3

Only men can claim divorce damages; woman has no right to take action agatiist a rival, is the ruling of the British courts." "It is doubtful, if a wife has any dgUt, to bring an action against another-woman who has enticed away her >vas the ruling of Mr Justice McCamie. Mi- W. A. Hohnan.hak had a unique compliment paid him by the political journalists of the Sydney Press. In token of long and courteous relations, the jpurnalistd-'offered him a medallion, which the formtfr Premier accepted. It is said of Mr Holman that to whomsoever was ' admitted to his room he gave;"the gracious and pains- ! taking attention that would have been at the service of the most highly-paid personage in the land. .. The coal 'shortage gives / ri.se occasionally to strange insidenta, says the Dominion. <A small party of women, carrying empty kits, sitood he-' side ■& railway line not far from Wellington. They appeared to be waiting for something. Presently a train lumbered along, and just'before it readied, di© group a diminutive avalanche' 'of coal .slipped over the side-of 'the engine's tender and- scattered like black mana from Heaven, on the railway track. The women, not visibly impressed by the unexpected, proceeded to fill their' bags. They did not seem to be getting very much coal apiece, but they presumably were glad to get any fuel at all. Just how they had /come to-anticipate fortune so neatly remained imexplained. - A etory of reconstruction as understood in Russia Jtrells how tbfi.Petro-grad-Moscow line was out of repair, and needed a number of new rails. The only, spare α-ails, available were those on the station sidings; and the order went forth thajt, these were to bejjulled up and transferred !t;o the maid'line. Unfortunately the sidings were all encumbered., with derelict trucks, so a special coinnii|sion _of experts was appointed to decide what should be done! The_exejptfts concluded that, as the case was urgent, they had better blow f yip the trucks in order to get at the rails on which they were standing. proceeded to do so; and tKen owTold acquaintance, Peter the Painter, arrived, and asked, what the mischief they were,up tor The explanations did not saitisfy him and he ordered them all to be shot for sabotage. ' . , ■