NEWS TIT-BITS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 156, 1 July 1916, Page 13

NEWS TIT-BITS.

. A; Ebtm. of Ktag JSdward is to bo ■ratted. Iα Tomato, overlooking Cou--Sfuaxe.

TneTßcar of 'Menam (Surrey) has been Lflaad £1 far alkming the church clock to tefcime after dark.

i Owet a million patients have been rased for oi the Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women since-ite foundation a hundred years ago.

Rowland Thomas James Moindv has been drowned in the river Usk at Caerleon, in the presence of his wife aiid family, while trying to save a boy.

On Mr John Thorpe's Lodge Farm, near Sheffield, & hare has become fostermother to a number of kittens left behind by their unfeeling mother.

farmers in Middlesex complain of the loss of lambs by uncontrolled dogs. At ■Manor Farm 50 lambs have been killed during the past munth.

Arthur Heywood., a Bolton labourer, who waa drowned in Leigh Canal, left c, letter saying -he Jiad twice been rejected lor the Army, and was sick of life.

Last year 026 boye between 12 and 14 yeais of age were allowed to leave schoote of the Berkshire education authority for farm work. The amount loet in grants was £1,250.

Johann Merzenich, president of tho Cologne Bakers' Guild, has been fined 150 marks ( SJI 10/) for mixing sawdust in the best bread, supplied chiefly to sick and old persons.

A German beer shortage is reported, and thirty million bottles are asked for from Den-mark. The sale has been arranged for on condition Germany <sends her own barrels.

In Manchester and surrounding towns recently best joints were fetching 1/6 per lb. The average advance all round ie Id per lb. English lamb averaged 1/5 per lb.

Two women fined at Maryiebone for disorderly conduct were, said a policeman, stripped to the waist and fighting furiously in Woodehester Street. Both, were bleeding from the nose and mouth.

Profits from the Nottingham municipal tramways, gas and electricity undertakings will enable £60,350 to be used this year in relief of rates, as-compared with, £71,000 last year.

Herrings in Berlin arejk>w 180 pfennigs (about 1/9) per lb, as against the pre■waa price of 24 pfennigs (under 3d.) a The Government has fixed a maximum price fox fish.

Dr Edward Carr-<Jlynn, who is in his seventy-third year, and has been Bishop of Peterborough since 1896, is understood to have tendered his resignation of the see.

After "wandering for-daye without food, a Sittingbourne bank clenk, a conscientious objector, ivae fonnd on Saturday in a wood some miles away, very much exhausted.

Hearing his son WiDiam (30) say "I will drown myself," John Currie, the father, ran after him, but could not catch him before lie jumped into the river at Annan. Both were drowneof Catching her toe in a tramway line, Ellen Meredith (66), of Bichard Street, Islington, fell and struck her head on the ground with such violence that she died in St. Bartholomew's Hospital. At Bow Street a Boston (lance.) dealer in human hair was fined £300, and 15 guineas costs, for failing to communicate to the Public Trustee a debt due to alien enemies by his firm. He wae told that he was liable to penalties of £9,000. Since -May 1 meat, sausage-meat, preserves and sugar can only be obtained throughout the whole of the Grand Duchy of Baden on production of a special card furnished by the Minister of the Interior. The wife of John Barton, a Corporation gaswork employee, of Hart Street, Southport, has given birth to triplets. She had previously given birth to twins, and has seven children alive, the oldest of whom ie nine years of age. The "Tribune de Geneve" learns thai owing to the lack of eoap a plague of Ike has supervened in Constantinople. 3*o one is allowed to leave Stamboul without a medical certificate to the effect that he is free from lice. Owing to the increased cost of provisions, the London Zoological Society, it was stated at the annual meeting, had been compelled to use great care, but they had not allowed the, animals to suffer in condition. Watch chains are now 'becoming a prewar fashion. The number of waistcoats across which a heavy gold chain sways is decreasing rapidly. The war has popularised the wristlet watch —formerly generally worn by girls and "nuts." The States of Guernsey have decided to put a tax of about ten. per cent on &c gross takings of aIS entertainments. It was proposed to put an additional tax on tobacco, tea, sugar, oils and methylated spirit. A net profit of £14,132 wae made on [Bournemouth Corporation Tramways last year, as compared with £9,083 the previous year. The total receipts were £101,S18. The allowance made to men of the etaff who had joined the forces was £4,173. The report of the Council of the Koyal Colonial Institute for 1915 shows a continued increase in membership, which amounted to 10,904 (a record total) in December last. Forty-six .Bellows of the Institute had been killed in action or died of wounds. A safe containing £102 was bodily removed from the Lord Chancellor Inn, in the centre of Nev/caatle-on-Tyne, early on a recent morning, probably on a cart which was heard in front of the premises shortly before the robbery was discovered. A mother stated at the Hackney Coroner's Court that in her opinion her boy of four years -of age had been killed by poison from a dead rat with which he had played in the garden. It had been caught by toe cat and flung into the dustbin. Sergeant-Major John Gossett, a Crimean veteran, who died at Sutton, aged 7fi, was buried at Alitcham last week. He joined the Army when 14 yeans old, and served through the Crimean War. After his death his pet dog pined and j Tefnsed food, and had to be destroyed. I A Belgian was recently taSen with a heart seizure in a tram car. A German army doctor sat in solitary state in ■ the first-claee section of the car. The ! conductor dre-w his attention to the case. "Its no business of mine," was the reply; : and the uick man died. I Rochester Corporation has paid £70 compensation to a m,ilk-boy who was accidentally shot in the leg early one .morning by the keeper of Rochester Castle. The keeper wae firing at one of the municipal pigeons to put ;'.n end to if* ffi-iTrr'r-. n« it be.-i «--i-c! it=oH. '