NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9397, 18 March 1909, Page 6

NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

“I’d rather have a flower face * than a’heart of gold, any day In the week,’ 5 eays Tormentilla, the charming, if‘not strictly beautiful, heroine ~ of a recent novel. She complains farther, when complimented on her moral worth: “People always take * it for granted that yoofhave a sweet helfpul nature if you aren’t pretty* It isn’t fair, i’

An echo of the Christchurch, slaughtermen’s strike occurred yesterday|when a number of men whose fines remain unpaid received notice from the employers that they had been instructed by the Inspector of Awards to withhold all wages due to them pending the/extinction of their liabilities. About ,thirty men are concerned and the amounts vary from 10s upwards. The men intend to interview the Premier and raise the point whether a penalty imposed cinder the old Arbitration Act can be enforced under a subsequent Act. An Auckland telegram states that a smart arrest was effected by Detetcivea Hollis and Scott at Freeman’s Bay shortly before midnight, resulting in the recovery of a large quantity of stolen jewellery and the discovery of a large collection of house-breaking implements. The subject of the arrest was a young man named Frank Maher. The detectives fonud upon his person a quantity of jewellery alleged to connect him with several large burglaries in the city. A search of the man’s dwelling resutied in finding a large quantity of honse-breakicg tools, including skeleton keys, files, batteries, wires, revolvers, a flashlight, and farther jewellery valued at £6O, the latter being recovered from a chimney. An astonnding story of two suicides through love lor some English dancers was published in the Temps. A troupe of young English dancers, called “The Variety Girls,’* has for some time past been performing at a music hall at Marseilles. Ever since their arrival they have attracted numbers of admirers. Two of the latter, named de Valery, aged 24, and Oontard, aged 17, both members of wealthy families, became infatuated with two of the artistes. Their proposals of marriage were, however, rejected, and the two young men became so despondee t that they decided to pat an end to flbeir (lives. The elder committed suiode by shooting himself through the beart at bis borne in Marseilles. The otber was sent away by his relations, who had discovered the intrigne, to Tonraine, bnt recently his mother received a letter from him announcing that he had decided to do away with himself, and almost immediately after she got the news that he had carried out hU intentions. Last year, it is slated, several of the “Variety Girls’’ made brilliant marriages.