ITEMS OF GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17459, 1 May 1920, Page 2 (Supplement)

ITEMS OF GENERAL NEWS.

I DIED LIGHTING BIS PIPE. While lighting his pipe in his bar, Mr. Horace Saunders, manager of tho White Hart Hotel, Walham Green, fell dead. MOTORIST TILTS INTO PUNERAL. Losing control of his car on a steep hill near Tonypandy, a motorist crashed into a funeral party on the way to the cemetery. Five mourners were injured and the motorist himself was taken home suffering from shock. PILE HIDDEN IN BREAD. For taking a file concealed in a loaf of bread into Brixton Prison, Mabel Bailey, a photographer, has been committed for trial at Kingston-on-Thames. A warder stated that she called to see a man named Mereches. She brought several articles of food, including a loaf of bread. When he examined it he found a file in it, PRISONER'S LEAP FFOM OMNIBUS. The London police are searching for a man who escaped from i military escort at King's Cross. The man sat on tho rear ser.t of tho top of an omnibus with one of the escort, and, chatting affably with him, asked for a cigarette. As he struck a match he suddenly jumped up fiom his seat, scrambled over the top of the motor-'bus, and jumped into the roadway. A taxi-cab which had been following stopped, and two men jumped out, bundled the fugitive Into the cab, which drove off rapidiy. WAVES 900 FEET HIGH. Reports from Newfoundland tell of tho highest waves for years, reaching at Little Harbour Head, at one time, to the top of the 200-foot-high tower of the lighthouse and encasing it in ice 34 inches thick. The keeper had to lower himself from the topmost window and chop away the ice before he could restore the light service. The entire coast was strewn with lobsters, clams, and fish thrown up by tho heavy seas. THE CONQUEROR OP MEXICO. After almost 100 years of consistent search, the remains of Hernando Cortes, Spanish conqueror of Mexico, have been definitely located in the Temple of Jesus, one of the many v Catholic churches in Mexico City. A gold key which can unlock the marble vault containing the dust of "Ihe Conquestador" and the funeral garments in which he was buried is said

I 810 [BEQUEST TO DR. BARNARDO'S Under the will of the late Mr, William Heeley, of Church Stretton, Salop, Dr. ijaniardo's Homes benefit to the extent of nearly £20,000. DEATH PROM CELLULOID COLLAR. James Kearney, 11 years of age, died at Leixlip as the result of, burns. He was bringing in firewood in his arms, when a lighted candle he was carrying ignited his celluloid collar and he sustained terrible injuries. GETTING A FREE RIDE. It was alleged of a man fined at Stockport, England, that he boarded a running car and presented a revolver at the head of the conductor when asked to pay nis fare. The conductor attracted the attention of a passenger, and the defendant, it was alleged, touched him with the weapon and threatened to blow his brains out. He covered the conductor with the re. volver until the car reached Edge Lane, when he jumped off and disappeared. A WORKHOUSE PROBLEM. •* Whether men should bo shaved once or twice a week is a question that has stirred Eton Workhouse. During the post five years they have been shaved once a week, nut now the war is over some guardians think thev should be shaved twice, the ■ difference in the contract price being £5 and £7 10s per quarter. At a meeting of the guardians the " double shaves" won by 14 votes to 3, four women being in tho majority. LOVERL* JESTS BEFORE DEATH. Having, it was stated, laughingly told a companion that her sweetheart, Frederick Lawier, was going to shoot himsell and "would have to take her with him,'' Rose Shenton was found shot dead in a Birmingham street by the side of the man, who had remarked to a friend that he " had been ' putting the wind' up Rose." The Birmingham coroner's ju y found that Xawler shot the girl and afterwards committed suicide. TO IMPRESS HER LOVER. A dramatic suicide of a girl amed Mile. Leonie Leys is reported from the village of (Jravelines, near Lille. She was to be married to a young man of that region, but there was apparently some opposition to the match. After a quiet conversation with her fiance, she told him abruptly that she wished to run away with him immediately. "If you don't take me away,