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North Otago Times, 2 December 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

Carlo Buonglovannl, a young Italian peasant, and his bride, Maddalena, of Mondovi, recently entered a train for the first time in their lives in order to spend their honeymoon in Turin, but they were so terrified oy the train's motion that they jumped out, The bridegroom received serl oub Injuries, the bride being unhurt.

A Girl belonging to a wealthy Geneva family had just threatened to bring about a referendum in Switzerland. Her fiance has been arrested on what she considers unjust grounds and she threatens, it he is not released, to obtain the necessary 30,000 signatures, and refer the matter to the entire nation,

A plague o( snails on the coast of Ceylon is assuming serious proportions. Millions ot snails are to be found, and some of them weigh as much as,a pound. The snails have begun feeding on the voting eocoenut trees, and it is feared that they moy attack the young robber tree*,