NEWS CURIOSITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20221, 3 February 1934, Page 31 (Supplement)

NEWS CURIOSITIES.

JOTTINGS FROM WORLD’S PRESS. Husband and w ile are serving life sentences in the same prison at Nanking. Two more aeroplane factories ha' e closed in France owing to lack of order*. Two hundred machineries, seized by the Japanese Customs atpsobe. are to be auctioned. Unemployment exchanges at Pla-ts-moulh, Nebraska, have closed because everyone has work. When his cow was killed by a train, an old farmer in the Hoyuan district, Canton, hanged himself. Losing an eye w hen struck by a “sliced” ball, a woman has been awarded £SOO damages against a Winnipeg golfer. Fifteen minutes after he had stolen a coat in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a man had been arrested, charged and sentenced. Sanglier, the “bravest bull in France.” has died of old age at 17. and has had a monument, erected to his memory at Maisoillcs. Falling into the sea at St. Vincent. Cape Verde* loins, a Kutopeati liarbuur worker was devoured b\ a shark in view of a helpless crowd. In Tchol Province. Manchuria, a > ear •um there were no .lap mese: now “ r I I . Japanese t ami lie* are ahead' settled thei e 1 and more arc expected.