GENERAL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9187, 12 April 1910, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

LAST OF THE OUTLAWS. The last of the "bad men" of the Far West, and for years, the scourge of the cattle country, an outlaw named "Dutch Henry" was killed in a conflict with a mounted policeman south of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. The policeman had his horse shot under him. ' FAITHLESS LOVER'S REMORSE. Plaintiff in a Servian breach of promise case upbraided her sweetheart so eloquently that ho wept and besought her to forgive him, and allow him to repair his error. She turned her back on him, whereupon he left the court and shot himself. BOLD WAGERING. Two remarkable wagers were laid at Gat wick during the race for the Grapge Steeplechase. Immediately after the start Mr Ike White tendered £100 to Is 6d against one competitor named Wychwood, a bet which he supplemented by another of £100 to a cigar. Mr Harry Harriman was the taker of the latter wager, and Mr Harry Marks booked the bet first mentioned. Needless to add, the bookmaker was surprised to see the horse actually w-in. * BOY AVIATOR. The youngest aviator is, no doubt, little Marcel Hanriot, the son of the motor and aeroplane constructor, M. Hanriot. A few weeks ago the lad astonished everybody at Rheims by executing a splendid flight around the aerodrome on his father's aeroplane, with which he had been practising for some time. Ho scarcely looks 12 years of age, but has wonderfully steady nerves, and, curiously enough, he has been able to handle the machine better than his father, who built it, and who in his day was an excellent chauffeur. MOTOR-CAR ABDUCTION. In broad daylight, in one of the principal thoroughfares of Paris, a work girl was kidnapped and carried oft In a motor-car. She was engaged in a millinefv establishment in the Rue do la Paix, and set out from home to get there as usual at nine o'clock. She had just reached her place of business when two young men suddenly drove up in a motor-car, jumpod out, and before the girl knew where she was she was seized, forced into the car, and driven rapidly away. Some of Mile. Renee's midinettd friends saw the occurrence, but thought it was a joke. When, however, the girl, who is scarcely 16, did not return, her nn,rents wero informed of the incident. The mother wa3 so prostrated by the n»ws that it is feared her mind ma y be affected. PAULHAN RISES 4000 FEET. M. Paulhan has beaten previous aeroplane records in a most sensational manner. At Los Angeles he made a spectacular flight, lasting 50min 46 l-ssec, his object being to establish an altitude record. The height attained was officially declared to be 4146 ft. The time occupied in the descent was 7min 30sec. The aviator used a Farman biplane and a French motor. He received an ovation, from the crowd. The weather conditions were perfect. Mr Curtiss made a speed record on the track of a mile and a half in 2min 13sec. The previous highest altitude was attained by M. Latham, when he reached a height of 3500 ft. Before that the greatest altitudes had been 1900 ft, Pulhan; 1640 ft, M. Latham; 1100 ft, Mr O. Wright; 1000 ft, Comte dc Lambert.