GENERAL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7938, 20 October 1904, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

The membership of.-the H.B. Agricultural ard Pastoral Society now numbers 1000. n

There is talk m New Plymouth of getting up a petition praying the Cabinet to remit the sentence on Thomas Brown, sentenced to five years for an illegal operation The public are indignant at Haven being set free, and are showing their sympathy for Brown.

Some mill hands at Dargaville had an exciting time on a trolly recently. Whilst on their way home they got on a (ruck on the Kauri Timber Company's new line, which runs down a steep incline. The men intended to give the truck a trial down the hill! They started off merrily,, but the brakes would not work, and'the flying truck gained impetus at every yard. Eventually the inevitable happened, and the men went-'.hurling through the air! The result of the fall, however, was not serious.

Miss Marie Corelli has suffered many " apostolic blows and knocks " . since her onslaught on the clergy; but perhaps the most direct, if not the most courteous, is that of the Vicar of Lastingham, the Rev. J. S. Salman, who is reported to have said. '<I tell Marie Corelli she is a liar." This is argument after the downright Yorkshire method, though it is not usually employed from the pulpit. Popular controversy in those brusque, and rugged regions tends to short and'sharpexchanges, and "You're another " is often.the last word of the unyielding disputants. But Mr Salman was, no doubt, deeply moved. "Fancy any clergyman in Yorkshire acting the tyrant in a parish..'! he cried. And those who know- Yorkshiremen (says an -English paper) will agree with him that " the picture is too grotesque." . '

:r''/i'~;baye\/BeenV'Neiw'''Yor]£eirs>'making* holiday on vQoney- Island, (writes Mr Raymond Blathw*y t in the Daily Mail) • I have mingled with the holiday crowds in Tokio; ;B\h*aye- WBtohed the Australians at play upon ;the beach at. St. Kilda; I have been in and out among the"festival crowds of a great'ilndian city, or the myriada who throng the yiist pleasure resortß inthe neighbourhood o* Canton; I have spent many a holiday week in the faronrite ploygrounds of

the Canadian trippers ; but never.in any part of the world—in Paris, or in Naples in Athens, Cairo, even in Port Said itself, or Aew York, have I se^n anything to approaoh the foul,'shameless and blatant misbehaviour of the Cockney crowds in Hastings, Margate, Soutbend or Ramsgate. And I grieve to Bay that tho women are more ehameless and abandoned than the men. Oh! for half Q n hour of the sturdy police of Berlin or New York.