GENERAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 10307, 9 March 1922, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

—a «»irT--.» ; ■'•': :/\ . ' - -The Duke ■'■os-Yorl&; *i«r-K«ig*s-sec-ond »pn, is /pf; more- delicate frame and phisique *lfran %ir brothers, -thkT he does not dane ,tft .fixplse himself to strenuous occupations or relaxations. The Duke is deeply interested in social movements. Miss Victoria Drummond, the, grand-daughter of the;late Lord:Amhurst of H«ckney,;.hfls -just completed her apprenticeship as an engineer at tbp-hilyb.ilik Foundry. Dundee. 'Has choice of ar: unusual career; is paly .carrying out family traditions,. for her grandmother was a skilled taxidermist and her mother an expert geologist. Her aunt," Mis Evelyn Cecil, .is. a freewomaq of., the.. Gardeners' Company. Two . other amused themselves pftliitingfTieceiling/ of" Didli.ngtou Hall", their former house in Suffolk, .after a.D'Urbino desigu. > . ; : . i , •.. . Colonel. .Henry. whose,: dflath is one. of.,.the. niost ..piol.nxesq.ue figures In American' jOttWaTMh..,, ;He" was a. life-lorig Democrat, 'a pojvefful orator, and, when necessary, critic.'" Neither' in --hiai,; speeches, in his ■ -wriiings did he ever mince his words, of the "Louisville Courier Journal," he was a strong supporter, of the:Allies in tho war, and his famous expression, "*To hell with the Hohenzollerans and Hapsburgs," especially centred attention on his vehement fight against Germany... Colonel Wattersou never apcepted office though often pressed to do so by his friends, and, indeed, his only public , seryi.ee outside journalism was a brief .term in 'Congress in 1876-77, when "he - web returned to fill a. vacancy. He j had 'attaiii'ed-iiis. 82ndyear. . . The estate of the famous tenor, Caruso,- has been valued by-the-Flor- ■ ence Tribunal at 30,000,000 lire (£l. !R7:r,nO im:liu'iiug 1-I.UUU.UUU mu iu cash at the ComueA'ial Bank. Half of /.the sum is to go to Caruso V legitimate daughter Gloria, and the ptuep .•Jfi.OOO'jflOOilire will be divided among the rest of ihe family and the widow. '•According to law," says Mr Disney, the Greenwich (London) magistrate, "all the nursemaids and mothers in the country should be proceeded against for wheeling'their perambulators on the pavement. , 1 "remember about 35 years ago, there was a-crusade by'the police, against the perambulator, but all the nursemaids and mothers. struck ■ and the police had to drop it, but there is ho doubt it is an offence."" On the ground that her woman lodger was a nuisance, a -Balham (London) landlady asked for possession at the County Court. ~ She stated I hat her lodger played tbe piano for three hours at a stretch, slammed the doors, assaulted other lodgers,, chalked insulting messages on the doors, and sang choruses about her landlady. An order .for. possession within 'IS days was made. Lapdogs as portable-pets, for ladies are likely to be displaced In favour of an example set by' a woman in the Strand (London), recently should create a vogue. 'Hie rival is-& green parrots Perched "im the shoulder of his middlo-uged mistress, he proved a -great'attraetion as she walked, along so absorbed in her affairs as-to be apparently unconscious ol tho stir .she caused." Boys, following lit a discreet distance, endeavoured by calling T'olly' and whistling in various degrees of strength to stimulate- the bird into some response. But lie disdained the challenge, and,-swaying gently to the movements of hjs human perch' 'is' she threaded her way" through the crowds, .maintained iiii".;.iiiHii\ible silence. : • ■ .- ..