NEWS TIT-BITS.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 271, 13 November 1909, Page 16

NEWS TIT-BITS.

Cincinnati ladies demand that deserting husbands should be awarded the sa-ne treatment as is or may be meted out to deserting soldiers. An English burglar has added insult to injury by publicly advising the proprietrix of the burgled house to get a new watchdog. A workman named Stoffer has died at Wilhelmshaven after having slept incessantly for six weeks. Stoffer went home in a drunken condition six weeks earlier. It is estimated that this year's wheat crop alone will give to Western Canada a purchasing power equivalent to actual gold amounting to £25,000,000, Some Russian women have discovered that they have wedded only a 180 th part of a man each. There are twenty of them, and the bigamist husband is a St. Petersburg tailor. " She was drunk when I married her, 20 years ago, and has been drunk all her married life," was the certificate a husband gave his wife in an English court last month. The cutting of ,tihe TVansandine railway tunnel between Chile and Argentina will be completed on November 30 (says Reuterf. The total length of the tunnel will be about 3333 yards. An Italian witness in a London Police Court'protested that he had no knowledge of English, but, when the judge asked how long he had been in England, gave the show away by promptly replying: "Ten years, yer honour!" A Finnish M.P., who carries the simple life to the point of attending the House without shoes or stockings hae received such donations of footgear from sympathising friends that he threatens to start a boot shop. "Nobody has furniture of their own nowadays, you know, except a few eccentrics," remarked Judge Parry at the Manchester County Court, Eng. The bulk of people lived on hire, he added, amidst laughter. When a woman telegraphist leaves the British Poet Office in order <to be married, she receives a dowry, the amount of which depends on the number of years of her service. As much as £99 was paid recently to one girl. It is alleged that some London out-of works have got down so low as to rob corpses of their boots. A woaan who was found dead on a public- seat in Hackney the other-day had been relieved of both boots and marriage ring. The fact that a thousand South African war medals still await claimants seems to indicate that either the cook's sons or the duke's sons did their duty for duty's sake and without looking for any other fee or reward. Visitors to Constantinople may now visit the Selamlik and Yildiz Kiosk) the famous palace of Abdul Hamid. The latter is one of the finest buildings in the world, and is a storehouse of treasures. , The celebrated naturalist and explorer, Mr. William Johns, who some time ago left to explore the virgin forests of Costa Rica, has been killed and eaten by jaguars. By the side of the remains were found threes dead jaguars. Owing to the impossibility of obtaining ground for extensions, some of the London cemetery authorities are charging double, treble, and even four times the ordinary fees for the burial of a nonparishioner. George Shute, of New Jersey, has just been bound over under a £25 penalty for kissing his wife against her will. Justice Ware warned the man not to kiss his wife again without first obtaining her consent. Fishermen of East Scotland, Northumberland, and the Orkneys, have earned £1,523,000 during the herring season just concluded —a figure believed to constitute a record. They" have taken 1,218,000 crane, or about 1,218,000,000 herrings. Sweden, like Germany, abounds in titled persons of all grades, and the announcement that th-e present Conservative Cabinet will present a bill to the Rigsdag to abolish all orders of rand and grades of precedence has caused no little seosation. Nice, cool customers the rising generation of London youngsters seem to be. It was stated at a Southwaxk inquest that when a little girl, who waa in charge of two children, one of whom had been run over, was asked their address, she replied: " Half a mo', whUe 1 go and buy some sweets." Helene Oomtesse d'Anbigny d'Aesy, of Paris, in her will which has just been proved, left directions: "That her body should be embalmed and her heart cut out of her breast, and placed in a funeral urn in the church ait Courdemanohe, and her funeral to be simple and without flowers." British consols are transferable in the books of the Bank of England in amounts of a penny and any multiple of a penny. This was the illuminating reply given to a member of the House of Commons who asked if the premier security could be made accessible to small investors. It is expected that for the first time m England women will be able to enter for the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons in January next. The Home Secretary has just signified his approval of the new by-laws of the College, securing admission of women candidates. During last year 8,128 persons failed to meet their liabilities in the United Kingdom, and either went through the Bankruptcy Court or settled with their creditors by deed of arrangement. According to the debtors' estimates, the a ia. ios \ ,to credit ™ ™ fnwt Brit ! S v ?° st Qffice Probably acts for the public m more way a than any other Government office. On the last Saturday m September one of their serv ant s was seen m a novel role at Liverpool Street Station, conveying a lady on a parcel post lorry to her train. In' capacitated by gout, the lady sat complacently on the service vehicle just over the words "Parcel Post." A London passenger who sailed for New York at the end of September by the Mauretanaa from Liverpool foolda an interesting record. He has been travelling between Liverpool and the United States for 58 years, and has been on every one of the Cunard liners except the two fliers. In order to complete his record he sailed by the Mauretania, intending to return by the Lusitania. A monster locomotive, which was built for the Canadian Pacific Railway at a oost of £5000, has just been given a trial run, but, to the consternation of the many officials who had gathered to witness the performance of this most wonderful of locomotives, it absolutely refused to haul. After many fruitless attempts it was sent back bo the shops ' where, it is said, its weight will be j reduced. The locomotive was intended to be the most powerful ever built. .i