NEWS BY MAIL.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11404, 3 January 1931, Page 11

NEWS BY MAIL.

— -OSHOUT AGE OF WORMS ENGLISH TOWN SENDS FOR MORE the English, town of Hastings ran out of worms recently. An urgent message for 3000 more, l'at and appet-*-‘ng, was sent by the authorities of the National Federation of Sea Anglers’ Festival to JJungeness, where the worms fie luxq come from.

When tho festival and South of England championship started there were 12,000 worms enjoying the Hastings air. Soon after only three dozen were left. •

“Mb have used 15,000 worms,’' said Mr. R. V. Cobb, the federation secretary, “This is a. worm record, because wo have a record entry of competitors—over a thousand. Herring or mackerel cut up into small pieces are also used as bait.” A HOLE IN ONE! TROUT SWALLOWS GOLE BALL A 11-inch rainbow trout was found flopping about in the grass near the lake at the 15th hole on the Greenbrier Golf Course, White Sulphur Springs, by a caddie. He picked up the fish, which had an abnormally large stomach, and was about to take it home when ho was seen by a policeman, who arrested him for fishing. .The caddie explained where he found the fish. The officer, curious to know • the reason of its swollen state, cut it. open and discovered that the bulge was caused by a brand new golf ball which the trout had swallowed. The caddie was set free.. TACTLESS MISSIONARY UNTIMELY ARRIVAL AT CANNIBAL FEAST Cannibalism is still being practised in the Nambus tribe, of Malekula, in the New Hebrides, according to Pastor Stewart, vice-president of the Australian Union of Seventh Day Adventists, who has returned to Sydney. He related that wljen once he visited the paramount chief of the Nambus the chief appeared most embarrassed, and said that he did not want any .missionaries about that day. The reason was that a body had been brought in and the oven was then in process of heating. ,Mr. Stewart was also informed, that, tribesmen were out searching for more bodies, and that visitors stood a chance of being waylaid. “The bodies are wrapped in green leaves, placed on hot stones, and the oven sealed with earth, ’ said Mr. Stewart. f ‘Hundreds of natives have been eaten and also a few Europeans. LIFE WORTH £650,000 WOMAN’S BIG . INSURANCE POLICY . A number of women are included among the Americans whose lives .are insured for £200,000 or more. A total of 357 Americans now carry one million dollars, or more. . Mrs Henry E. Yeiser. daughter of the late Julius Fleischmann, ' yeast manufacturer, heads the feminine list with. £650,000 insurance. Mrs Evelyn Marshall Field holds policies totalling £500,000. m . , Mary Pickford, Constance Talmadge and Norma Talmadge are each insured' for £200,000. • JEERS AT EXECUTION MAN WHO MURDERED 22 PEOPLE Carl Panzran, who was hanged at Leavenworth,. Kans.es; recently, was the first man to he executed in that Slate for 60 years. He is alleged to have confessed to havin' l, murdered 22 people. >, He was jeered by. spectators as he walked to the gallows: ;