NEWS ITEMS.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13645, 10 February 1913, Page 7

NEWS ITEMS.

"Y'cs, your honor," eaid 'Rastus in Police Court, I'se guilty.; I -stole them paiite. But, your ' honor, there ain't no siii when the motive is good. I done stolo them.pants to get baptised in." ' - -.- ..

Built of rough-hewn oak trees split, into halves, the aucreat Saxon parish 'church of Greensted, near Oiigar, Essex, reached last month its 900 th year of active service. It was erected before the. Norman Conquest.

An anonymous gift of £25,000 for hospital purposos in London was announced recently'by Lady Bertha Daw kins who presided at a meeting in support of the- praposcd South London Hospital for Women. ' Lady Dawkins ssid that tho committee had received, .and had most gratefully ncroptcxl, a snuiuficent olter from some friends of tn-ixlical wp'nicn, who preferred to rein siiii anonymous, to-"give a site at Cla;>h,Tin Comrh«n and •f-rort there -a hospital at a cost of £25,000.

Earl Russcl, who, by joining the Fabian Society, has die-finitely indicated not -only his Socialism but his belief in land, .nationalisation,- ■'is (s&ya the '•Giob-e"). o;ic of" the vc-r&ati*G members oi' tho llonf-c! of Lords-. > He is a mombfr.of the. Bar, and occasionally prao tiws; luis for- many years taken 'a ureat 'intip-r-ost' in questions of local .yovorniricnt, and isa qualified ek'-etrical f.Tip^ir.ror, having-, hn: oiijjiiieer .business ftt Maidenhead. ' ' '.

Tho arrest of a girl of good family at Dr.nbury, Connecticut, caught in the :-rct of i;obhing a house, has caused. con 7 riderable -sensation in that town (says .-•;■ "Chroiu'rlo'' telegram.) The. girl, Amy Travorfl,' was dressed in man's <i*oi.hin.Q;, which sha <sonfcsse^ wer-e "i'.'Oti her by a confederate, Goorge Smith, a notori(»u« thief. Sho is infatuated with the burglar, and refusc-s tr> give any .information wl/ieh might lr>",<l to hi« capture. From ihe partial confession she has made, however, fxjror.il robberies' of houses are attributed to the girl, working under ihc direction of Smith. Amy Trayers. is exceedingly popular in Danbury, and was a teacher in ono of the local Sunday schools.