GENERAL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVI, Issue 6583, 28 December 1899, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

The secretary of the People's Refreshment Bouse Association (Limited) gives publicity in the London papers to the success of the Gothenburg publichouae experiment, to which the Hon VV. Lowtlier and Mr Arnold White testify. The inn ia the Green Man, at Tunstall, and it is managed by the People's Refreshment House Association. This Association has been at woric some for two years, and has seven publichouses under its management, which are being worked on Gothenburg lines. Both from a temperance aa well as a financial point of view the success of the Association's business is established, and there has been no single case before the the magistrates except one or two cases j brought by the Association againßt 1 persons who have misconducted themselves when refused drink. I Particulars of the loundevini? off Stonehaven ol the Gordon (Kineaidineshire fishing boat Truclight on a recent Saturday reveals an act of real heroism I which (says the Daily Mail) cannot be allowed to pass unnoticed. The boat, which was manned by a fisherman named Taylor and his four sons, suddenly filled with water and sank. The old man, who get clear of the swirl, saw to his horror three of his sons diai appear in the yortex, never to rise again. He managed to get hold of an oar, and by and bye his Becond son, Alexander, appeared swimming by his aide. The lad, recognising that the oar could only support one, calmly (jade his father farewell, crying, "VVeei, weel, father, I maun jist awa'!" and sank beneath the waves. The old man thus found himself alone among the tossing waves, and endured te.iible sufferings ere he was picked up unconscious half an hour afterwards