General Items

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 3, 5 September 1923, Page 7

General Items

'•What sort of a married life have you UadV queried Mr C. A. L. Treadwell of an old man 72 years of ago, and Charles Woodward by name, when this latter was charged at the Wellington Magistrate's Court oil Saturday with assaulting his wife. "Something beastly," vehemently returned Woodward. "What was the cause?" asked counsel. "Her tongue." "And did she have any other faults?" "Yes, she had plenty, audi she is very fond of fighting." |

A condition attaching to the £IOOO bequeathed by' the ate Sir William Herries to the Te Aroha Jockey Club was <xplained at the club's annual meeting. The terms of the bequest were that it be invested, and the interest derived from it be expended each year in the purchase of a cup, to be allotted to any on-? race; but should the club cease racing for two consecutive years, then the £IOOO is to be handed over to the Te Aroha Borough Council.

A London postal detective a novel device, after he had shadowed a girl named Cecilia Giles from Croydon to her London office for 40 days, and this ied to her conviction for sending inde .">n* postcar cU to a local vicar. The detective followed Giles homeward, and saw her post cards in a pillar box. The detective immediately inserted a piece of paper, which spread out inside the box, covering all the letters previously posted. W r hen the pillar-box was opened it was found that there were eight indecent postcards underneath the piece of paper,

Mr G. W. Bagrie, who has recently returned from a trip to England, has | come to regard 13 as his lucky number. He started business in 'l3, his registered number on the membership of the Commercial Travellers' Association is 148, which figures added together make 13. When Mr B. L. Salmon, of the N.Z. F.A. saw him off to England on the Ruapehu, he found his cabin was No. 58, added together 13 again. When Mr Bagrie left Christchurch a presentation was made to him by Mr R." English and several business men at which 13 were present. The date of tho event was 25-1-23, the total of which figures is also 13. The number of the Pullman car on the special steamer train Liverpool to London was 131—he considers there is a 13 touch about it. At Wembley Park his seat was Row H. No. 13.

A demure young librarian in a rural town up Bay of Plenty way— Opotiki to be precise-—had closed the library on a cold wet Saturday evening at the usual time and later had to pass the institution after transacting a little business further up the street. Great was her astonishment to see through the window flames lighting up the entrance room of the library she had but

shortly left. She had certainly carefully seen on departing that the fire in the grate ">s r as extinguished, and that all the lights were out! After searching for a stray man In the *' apparently deserted country street (relates an exchange), she hesitatingly unlocked the door and out upon her rushed a man whose face she could not see. The enterprising one had taken all the illustrated papers and magazines off the table in an adjoining room, and had made them into a very cosy blase before making himself comfortable for the night. Certainly an original idea on the part of a vagrant for spending a comfortable night, bat great must have been his anger on having his fireside disturbed by a timid blonde-haired young lady.

When commenting on the action song by children under nine at the Wellington competitions on Saturday evening, (reports tho Times/ 1 , Mr Roland Fost«p said those who missed the afternoon performance lost a real treat in not hearing everyone of tho ytouug performers. It was so excellent that he felt that, instead of being paid fur adjudicating, he should pay tor being entertained. He thoroughly enjoyed listening to them, and he had. 1 seen nothing „so good in its way for many a long day, and all of them were entdtaled to be highly commended. Little Kathleen Read gave an extraordinary! performance for <me so young. The variations, expression, and inflections of her voice gave so much feeling and character to what she was doing that it was hard to believe she was only five \ears of age. There was a general precocity that to him was astounding. Joan Hughes, second prize, was & quaint old-fashioned youngster with a funny little voice, which should be cultivated at a little higher pit h t obtain more sweetness. She wou d make a star jomedienno one cay if her bont lay that way.