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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9653, 9 July 1919, Page 2

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LONDON, May 10

A dock labourer was, at Bristol, sentenced to one month's imprisonment, with hard labour, for stealing two . apples at Avon-mouth Dock. He begged to be fined, but the Bench stated that thefts at the docks were increasing-.•enormously, in spite of fines ! and warning.

Mrs Howell,. the wife of a rauway carter living at Uompton, near \vo*ye-r----hampton, lias given birth to tripio'Ua. I'he mother and. babies are aomg wci. Mrs Howell, who wii!l be 41 ytars oi age next month, has had' 24 cnuurou in 21 years, including triplets 11 years. ago and twins six times. j.('ifteen children are living.

A model garden village containing about 250 semi-detached cottages, each with a large garden attached, is to be erected at Addlestone, Surrey. A large area has already been purchased, and building will shortly be begun. The estate will provide a large communal kitchen and restaurant on similar lines to the national kitchen, with ready-cooked meals obtainable in the morning and evening. A spacious day nursery is also to be provided.

The Hornsey dust destructor has liad a narrow escape from being partially, if not wholly/ destroyed. A collection of refuse from 11 houses had been deposited on the platform, which was carrying it rapidly to the furnace, when the foreman chanced to see among the rubbish a Gorman stick bomb. He retrieved it just as it neared the mouth of the furnace. The fuse had been removed, but the bomb was loaded. He at once put it into a bucket of water and informed the police.

A report having been spread in Peterborough that the Dean had recently stored 20 to 30 tons of coal, the chief constable, who is also local fuel overseer, in a letter to the ■ "Peterboro Advertiser," states that a police-in-spector 'has visited the Deanery and found that the total quantity of coal stored was between two and three tons, purchased in the summer months as advised by the Coal Controller. The chief constable also states that as la.st week the Dean was insulted in the street about the matter, he deemed a public denial of the insinuations necessary.

Mr Ben Tillett, M.P. for North Salford, has sent to Mr G. H. Roberts, the Food Controller, a letter he has received from residents in his constituency complaining of the difficulty of getting alcoholic refreshment, with meat or otherwise. Mr Tillett wrote: — "The handicap of the lack of decentbeer is unwarranted; it is an additional grievance which should be removed, as I feel sure all other tinion officials will confirm. Why the restriction upon brewing should continue passes all comprehension. The war has ended and the peace is practically .secured. Why should the workman still! be denied his glass of good beer at a reasonable price? To a Targe number of the sections of workmen in my union, who perform laborious work, good beer I is a necessity, and my executive trust its production will not be further hindered."

The Bishop of "Winchester, speaking at Farnham at a gathering to welcome home discharged soldiers, asked whether there vras.^ not a real danger of settling back after the war, wliere such noble, unselfish things had been done, into a life winch, was, not noble and not unselfish. ">I seem to it," he said, "in. the public life when we clamour for the most .that we can possibly get out of poor, starved, ti*ampled Germany. Perhaps it might be j right and fair and just to lift as much j of the biu-den of the war off the shoulders of our own working people, and so on. It cannot bo called, itself, a noble or unselfish tiling. If we ask for the Kaisor's head, it is not a noble or unselfish thing to do that. If English life is to be noble and unselfish, all kinds

of men and women have got to look to it that so it is."

xJv. Leonard Williams, lecturing on

"toiumon iSense,;) <m Monday, at the i'<axe& Nursing and Midwifery Conference and Exhibition at Mortimer' Rail, W., said tiiat peupie with tight collars aid uul dram, their brains properly, and often suffered from, bad tempers: ize had noticed that since women had up high co'i'liare and were wearing garments which gave complete freedom to the neck they had become sweeter tempered. Dr. Williams .a-liso u.dvucatcd the use of well-fitting corsets which supported the abdomen. Ha believed that aboriginal man was a four-footed animal. The abdominal const-ruction was intended for that posture. Since human ■ beings , had taken to walking on their hind legs L:he position of those organs was thrown out of gear. Healthy out-door living a.thletes might get on very well, but people who lived a sedentary life required .some kind of support such as was given by corsets. This was essential to'people who, like nurses, had to be oil their feet all day.

Sir Arthur Spurgeon, . general manager and managing director of the House of Cassell, was ■ entertained at dinner a-t the Hoiborn Restaurant, under the chairina.nsh.ip. .'. of the Lord Mayor, • by. shareholder's.■ 'and friends of the firm. He was presented with a canteen "of silver, and Lady Spurgeon with a diamond jewel. Sir Arthur Spurgeon, in reply, referred to tlie fact that 36 years ago Stevenson received £100 for "Treasure Lsland.", Since then, however, Cass ells had paid Stevenson, or his executors, many thousands of pounds in royalties. Then Sir Rider Haggard made, a bet with his brother that !he would write a story on the lines of "Treasure Island," and he produced "King''Solomon's Mines." In "The Boys' Newspaper" Alfred Harmsworth 38 years ago wrote an article upon "How to achieve success." Apparently Alfred Harmsworth knew how to achieve success, for he had since become the most powerful newspaper proprietor in this country.

At Sleaford, Flight Cadet Trevor Walter Chater, of London, was charged with the manslaughter of Captain Robin Dunn and Lieuenant Begg, who were killed by an aeroplane on March 18. Accused was pilot, and he 'declared he was diving at -a haystack, near the road, and did not see the trap in which the officers were travelling. He was not aware that be had caught anything, but felt a slight bump. He admitted, in answer to counsel' for the Director of Public [Prosecutions, that he had a signed order not to dive near roads. A statement made by him to the Adjutant was objected to by Mr Mellor, who defended, on the ground it was made to a superior officer. The Magistrate said there had been reckless disregard of orders, and he should commit the iaccused to the Assizes, allowing bail on his own recognisances.

Some remarkable cases of cure by psychotherapy were- related by Lieufc.Colonel A. F. Hurst; 11.A.M.C, officer in charge of tlie Searle Hayne Military Hospital, at a meeting at the Central Halt, "Westminster. There were many thousands of pensioners, he said, who were suffering from conditions which were complete-^ curable- under favourable conditions by the' methods of treatment. During last year they dealt with over 100 cases of men who were unable to speak above'a-whisper. Some had been under treatment previously for as long as three years. Without exception all were cured at a single sitting, sometimes in two or three minutes. An enormous number of men had been invalided for epilepsy. Our conclusion, declared Colonel Hurst, is that the vast majority., if not all cases of war epilepsy which have arisen during the-war with men who have never had fits before are functional, and being functional,, are curable.