NEWS TIT-BITS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 62, 13 March 1915, Page 14

NEWS TIT-BITS.

A sanitary dustbin was put to novel uses by Mrs. Constance Martha Ham, of Robert Street, Plumstead, who drowned herself and her aeventeen-months-old baby in water in the bin. The Swedish explorer Eoland Nordenskjold, who has just returned to Christiania from South America, claims, to have found a new tribe of cannibals on the border/between Bolivia and Brazil. On the notice-boards of the London Labour Exchanges appears the advertisement: "Wanted, lady barbers." There are at least half a down establishments in London employing lady barbers, who with tips arc said to make £3 a week. The procession of the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs of London and the Guildhall banquet which followed cost £_&ft 3, of which half waa contributed hy the Lord ■ Mayor, and one-quarter each by toe j Sheriffs. 1 The Peninsular and Orient liner Kile j has been wrecked off Awa Island, in the j Inland Sea of Japan. A Japanese steamer took the 17 paaaenyrs, who included Dr.j Fobs, Bishop of Osaka, and crew of 140 to Kobe. . -..:; „.7r.,..7 ,'■ ' ~'; ,• - j Mm. Dillon, the »Mow <rf Dr. Thomas j J. Dillon, bl Boston, who" wis one of the leaders of the Irish national movement in America, was burned to death at her residence in County Kildare, after falling on to the fire. Several thousand tribeamen who attempted a raid on the "North-west Frontier, in the Khost district of BeJuchistan, have been repulaed by 'the North Wmziristan Militia with severe losses. The militia lost six Id lied, including Captain Gothan. While on sentry doty at Dover, Private Gibbs, of the Royal Artillery, observed a man moving suspiciously near a fort. He challenged three times and then -red. It was afterwards discovered that he had shot and killed a fellow-sentry named Walters. At the inquest a verdict of death from misadventure waa returned. The late Mr. Andrew Lawsoa, of AMborough Manor, Yorks, J.P. for North and West Riding, stated in his will that he desired to be "conveyed to the cemetery in his luggage cart or in a cart belonging to one of his tenants," some of whom be , wished to cany him to his grave. After twelve months' absence at sea in H.Mjs. Vulcan, Sergeant James McNaughton, of the R.M.L.L, was hurrying hom c to Deal to spend a few days' leave. (As the train neared. Finsbury Park (London he was taken ill, and died before King's Cross was reached. Heart disease was the cause of death. | A touching episode of the Italian earthquake occurred at Capelle, where under the ruins was found a woman with I a new-born baby boy. Both were extri- | cated alive and uninjured. An officer of the Carabineers who rescued them was j asked to be godfather. He suggested that j the boy should be called Terrcmotino, meaning "small earthquake." I While the Carmelite Convent, Liverpool, was in flames the Mother Superior and twenty-nine sisters coolly telephoned for assistance, and spent their time in removing sacred vessels, vestand furniture to a place of safety. • '-kJrily- when" the chapel became completely enveloped did the brave women eeck refuge in their own cloisters. Dorothy Yicomtesse de la Chapclle, wife of a British officer serving at the front, was granted a decree nisi in the Divorce Court on the ground of the desertion and misconduct of her husband. The Vicomtesse stated that she had been married eight years and she and the Vicomte had lived in London. Evidence was given that the Vicomte had stayed at | I.ittlchampton with an unknown woman. *T rode after the man and stopped him by throwing my bicycle at him. It I was the only way," was the story told by P.c. Yorke to the Clerkenwell magistrate when Thomas Marshall, a painter, was charged with housebreaking and attempted murder. A bull-dog and a crowd joined in the chase. The bull-dog attacked the alleged tbief. and showed its impartiality by also biting the con- j stable. A carpenter named George Frederick Reading, of Peckham, fell while trying to board a moving train and broke his leg. He died later in hospital, and a doctor •told the Southwark coroner that death was due to marrowfat from the broken thigh entering the blood, rendering it weak. Germs of pneumonia had then taken effect, and pneumonia was the cause of death. Everyone's lungs contained germs of pneumonia, but they did not take effect unless the blood was bad. An outbreak of fire took place in a tenement house in Paisley in which there were two children. When the flames were at their height Private James Gibb, Seaforth Highlanders, who is at present on furlough, rushed into the dwelling, and brought a four-year-old boy into safety. He made an attempt to secure the other child, aged two, bvtt was beaten back by smoke. The charred remains of the child were afterwards recovered. A verdict of manslaughter was returned by a coroner's jury at Battersea against James O'Neill in connection with the death of George Alfred Morton, alias Weston, who was fatally stabbed at Clapham Junction station after alighting from a race train from Windsor on December 9. The tragedy was a sequel to a quarrel in the train. On reaching the platform it is alleged that Morton attacked O'Neill and that the latter struck the dead man with a knife. ''' ■"'• The British rßoard of Trade is informed by the Advisory Committee of the National Federation of Meat Traders' Association that the retail prices of home-killed beef need not be more than ljd per lb higher than a year ago, coarser joints being advanced somewhat more than prime joints. Home killed mutton has advanced less on the prices of a year ago than hom e killed beef. Pork is also somewhat dearer than a year ago. The price of veal has advanced as much as that of beef. Lord Loughborough, heir of the Earl of Rosslyn; was the defendant in a High Court action brought by Mr. W. S. Simmonds, an owner of racehorses, to recover £200 on a cheque drawn in favour of Messrs. Peters, commission agents, and endorsed by them to the plaintiff. Lord Loughborough, who appeared in khaki, stated that he gave the cheque in payment , ai betting debts, in April, 1913. He did ] not come of age until November of that j year and the cheque was postdated to that j date. Judgment for defendant. I Walter Evans, who had a number of xravictiona for offences committed in Eng-1 land, appeared at the High Court, Edinburgh, attired in the uniform of the Lovat Scouts, for sentence upon an indictment charging him with having fradulently obtained board and lodgings in an Inverness hotel, with housebreaking, and with having hired a motor-car without intent to pay. Accused represented that he was a captain in the Lovat Scouts at Beauly. Sentence of three years' penal servitude was passed.