NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1932, 28 January 1919, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The inquest on Ihe actress, Billie Carle!on, found dead in a West End llaf at the New Year, has been resumed. Deveulle, in evidence, denied giving cocaine to the deceased. He first look cocaine in America, then ceased until a few months ago, when he bought some from a Chinese woman, and the film actor Belcher. Witness denied the evidence hy Miss Longfellow, that he entered Miss Carlelon’s bedroom. He merely got his wife's fare powder and handed it round as a joke. The Coroner commented on this statement as very ingenious hut unconvincing. Dr Stewart, recalled, in replying to the Coroner, said that. Miss Cartel on (old him that Jack Mav taught her to smoke opium. May is an American, who started Murray’s Night Club, where the “tango” craze raged in 1913.

This is an Inglewood story, told, I-v (he veracious Record: —Twas a Sunday evening, work was finished for the day, though it was still daylight. The farmer and his handy man were having a stroll round when it occurred to (lie boss that a Billy goat, resident on the place, who had been making unfriendly •overtures to the milk-cart horse, needed a corrective. On the farm was a line two-year-old Holstein hull, lhal had lately developed symptoms of Kaiserism, and having, bussed nearly all the four-legged dwellers on the place, had begun to sliow signs of a desire to rebel againsl human control. “Let him give the goat a lesson, lower his pride, bring him to his hearings, and teach him not to interfere with other peaceful denizens of the domain,” thought the farmer. No sooner thought than acted on. Billy was introduced to the paddock where Bully was grazing, and the fun began. -The goat was howled over at the first onslaught, and it appeared as if the hulUmimt make short work of him. He managed, however, to wriggle out from nuclei his adversary, got some distance uway, and then came again to the attack, catching the hull so fairly <m the frontal as to fairly stagger him backwards. This he repealed with renewed vigour and evident enjoyment, until, alter about the thiid head-on impact Bally quite lost sight of any humour supposed to he ia the game and hurriedly turned his hack on Ins adversary, not exactly disdainfully, hut quite without dignity, and, evidently deeming ■discretion the heller pari of valour, heal a hasty retreat, not even asking for an armistice. Most unfashionable these days, and lie’s been humble since, hut Billy's as spry as ever.