NEWS TIT-BITS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 68, 20 March 1915, Page 15

NEWS TIT-BITS.

s At Taunton a firm of butter and bacon factors, who supplied adulterated butter to the troops in France, were fined £40 and £52 10/ courts. Fifty servant girls at Budapest have started a "eilent strike" I3iey vow that they wiM not utter a word until their mistresses aUow them to receive their "followers" on two eveningp weekly. To replaoe men who have enlisted more women will be employed at certain collieries in the Manchester and Wigan districts. About 2,000 pit brow girls are now engaged at Lancashire collieries. An Aldembot man waa fined 21/ for refusing to obey the order of a sentry. An officer who gave evidence said that the sentries now had orders to fire if their challenge was not answered. "You could not be robed more honourably," said his (Honor Judge fihortt at Rochester County Court, to Mr. Wallace, solicitor, who explained his appearance in the uniform of lieutenant conunaader of Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Henry Hevitt, a policeman who seized an infuriated cow by the horns and tame and threw it to the ground in Bennondaey, thus saving several people from injury, waa presented with a cheque for £7 by the Bow Street magistrate. The rule that women teachers must relinquish their positions on marriage is 'being waived by the London County Council in cases where the teachers many soldiers or saiions proceeding on active service. Belgian doctors have been given a mcoguised statu* in Great Britain by an Drder-in-OouncU directing that the second part of the Medical Act, 1886, shall be extended to Belgium. Thus a Belgian doctor is tree to practise an ths United Kingdom. The employees at Sir William Hartley's jam works, Ainbnee, Liverpool, have bad £4,750 divided amongst them, io accordance with the profit-sharing scheme. Since the scheme came into operation thirty yearn ago £80,000 has been distributed. Mr. David Andrews, solicitor and banker m Girvan, a brother-in-law of the Right Hon. Mr. Eugene Wason, M.P., died recently. He was descended from an ■ancient CaTrick family, his great grandfather having been a lawyer in Maybole in the seventeenth century. A carrier who sued for damages on account of an injury from a dray, was shown to have made fifty-six claims for losses by fire in ten yearns, and the jury gave the case against him, the judge recommending the documents to be handed to the Director of Public Prosecutions. At the inquest at Shccrnsss, recentiy, on Captain Albert Victor John Oowell, of the 6th (Reserve) Battalion, Rifle Brigade, who ahot himself with a revolver, a letter was read in which be said he found himself unfit for work. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide during temporary insanity." A boy-baby, three months old, has been found on the doorstep of the house of Father Hudson, of ColeshuT, Nottingham. Attached to it was a note:—"To the Convent,—Please, dear Nuns, take th* little baby. lift parent* are Belgians, and win" claim it soon. Trusting m God and our Blessed Lady that you win bs kind for a few months." Mr. Ernest N. Ensor, son of the Ist* Mr. Charles Ensor, J.P., of Lougbgall, county Armagh, has given up a good position in the Chinese Customs Service, paid his passage to Belfast and enlisted as s private in the oth Battalion R.I.F. Mr. Ensor has a brother in the same regiment and another brother is an officer in the Canadian contingent Messrs. Perry, Ltd., of London,' have presented to the Queen's Work for Women Fund 20,000 boxes of a new pen which Her Majesty baa allowed to be called the "Queen Mary pen. 1 * When these 20,000 boxes, representing £900 in value, are disposed of, the manufactures* will pay to the fund a royalty of Id per box on aU boxes of ths pen sold during the war. In a case now before the Admiralty Division of the High Court, in which the owners of the hospital ship Glemurt Castle and the Sunderland steamer J. Y. Short claim damages from each other forcollision in the Thames, a witness stated that ths force of the impact out the legs off the female form of the J. Y. Short's figurehead and deposited them on the operating table of ths hospital ship. An instance of the danger arising from gas taps turning too easily waa afforded at an inquest held by Mr. W. Schroder at Holbora into the death of an Italian living in New Compton Street, Soho, who was suffocated by coal gas poisoning while asteep. In examining the tap on the gat; bracket the police found that a person in turning it off might very easily turn it on again without knowing it. A verdict of death from misadventure was returned. The latest return of the number of persons in receipt of Poor Law relief in London shows that pauperism continues to decrease. On Saturday, January 16, there were 70,596 people in the workhouses and 30,391 on the outdoor list, making a total of 100,990. This c lower by 4,045 than the number relieved on t/rss corresponding day of January 17, 1914, and represents a mate of 22.4 paupers per 1,000 of the population as against 235. Dennis McCarthy, a private in the 3rd Border Regiment, stationed at Shoeburyness, went into a Barking hotel in a drunken condition and called for liquor. The manageress (refused to serve him, and McCarthy seized hold of the hot water urn and threw it down, and damaged it. He was ejected from the house, and was arrested. At the police station he smashed a window with his fist, and then admitted that he was an absentee from his regiment At Stratford McCarthy was fined £1 2/6, or seven days. "Bacteria aire immortal," said Mr. Henry George Plimmer in an address at the Royal Institution. "When they attain a certain age—fifteen minutes—they each divide in two. One bacteria in twenty-four hours, provided all the conditions axe ideal, will become forty thousand bfflion billion. The conditions never acre ideal, but this shows what the possibility of maltiplicaition is." As showing the power of toxins, Mir. Plimmer said oner-thousandth of a gramme of tetanus toxin would kill a horse six hundred million times its- weight. A miesionairy was charged at Bow Street with using insulting behaviour, the police alleging that he had forced his conversation on some officers leaving the Holborn Restaurant after a dinner party. The defendant told the magistrate that knowing the temptations in the streets he had made it a practice to invite men in uniform to the V.M.C.A. building in Tottenham-court Road. The magistrate said that in thleee actions as well as tact and Christian charity, was a very desirable virtue. He would give him credit for the very best motives, but his action was very reprehensible. The missionary was bound over.