NEWS TIT-BITS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 198, 19 August 1916, Page 13

NEWS TIT-BITS.

"Kitchener Jellicoe" were the names -given to a Tottenham baby the other day. The electors of Berlin, Ontario, have voted in favour of changing the name of the town to Kitchener. The letter in. whioh Lord Kitchener appealed' for 300,000 recruits for the New Army was sold at auction at the Red Gross Gift House, Pall Mall, for £(i,UOU. At a meeting in celebration of the centenary of the introduction of savings banks into London, the Lord Mayor eaid that the Trustee Savings Banks now held £73,000,000 belonging to 2,000,000 depositors. A crowd which had waited outside one of the Dublin churches while Mass was being celebrated for a man who had been shot for rebellion, cheered the mourners as they left and sang "A nation once again" and "God 6ave Ireland." Noticing a woman struggling in the canal at Charlemont Bridge, Dublin, a passenger in a passing tramway car, Denis Flynn, jumped off, ran to the bank, and, diving in, succeeded in rescuing her, amid the cheere of a watching crowd. Dr. Waldo, at a Southwark inquest, said the old-age pension of 5/ a week was not an unmixed blessing, for it encouraged poor old to try to subsist on a totally inadequate sum, instead of seeking the shelter of some public institution. In a probate suit in Dublin it was stated that tiie testator, an old lady, fell into the fire and was badly burried a few days before making her will. Her arms were injured, and she affixed her mark to the will by taking the pen between her teeth. The Dublin magistrates ihave discharged Alexander Bennett, who was charged with the murder of John Kennedy, publican. Bennett stumbled when passing Kennedy, and the latters head struck the ground, causing fracture ol the ekull. Dealing with a King's Bench action resulting from the prohibition at St. Helens of a film entitled "Five Nights," Mr. Justice Horridge said the Council's license condition forbidding films ukely injuriously to affect youthful minds was most desirable. Mr. Alec L. Black, J.P., a Grimsby. trawler owner, has given £ 1,000 to provide a -fund to assiet Grimsby and Cleethorpes school children to secure a £1 War Savings Certificate. Each scholar contributing will be" credited from the fund with a deposit of one shilling. The Hon. David Tennant, eon of Lord Glenconner, was fined £5 at Salisbury for driving a motor car without being licensed. When accosted by a policeman at Amesbury defendant admitted that he was only 14 years old and had no license. One of the few remaining survivore of the Balaclava charge in the person of Mr Tom Warr has died" at Dorchester, aged 86. The veteran was in the 11th Hussars, and after the famous charge returned to headquarters with ids wounded horse several hours after the first roll call. At Bow- Street Police Court, Gerard Arnoldv, a Belgian, was ordered tby .Mr. Hopkins to pay fines and costs amounting to £C 33/ for selling wines, spirits, beer, and tobacco -without a license at a private hotel in Tavistock Square, and for offering a bribe of £7 to a Customs official. In honour of the Shakespeare Tercentenary a great ,open-air memorial performance of "Hamlet" took place at Elsinore, at which the King of Denmark, tie Royal Family, and a distinguished company were present. The scene was appropriately laid on the very spot where ShakespeaTe made Hamlet wander nightly. Crossing the railway as a short cut to his quarters in Kent resulted in Sergeant Henry Williams, Royal Fusiliers, aged 31, being killed by a train under peculiarly tragic circumstances. He had to descend a eteep bank to get on the line, and slipped and fell on to the metals, and a train, coming up at the time ran over him. •> Wargrave Church, which 'wae burnt down by Suffragists on Whit Monday, 1914, has been rebuilt, and was reopened on July 22. In the course of the rebuilding various interesting architectural discoveries have been made, including fragments of a 13th' century doorway and a 13th century ambry, in the transept. Two hundred and forty girls at a Byfleet laundry combined to knit a scarf for Prince Albert, each girl knitting one raw and paying 1/ in addition. The £12 so raised and the scarf have been cent to the Queen, who has given the money to the Prisoners of War (British Navy) Fund, and has asked the Prince to accept the scarf. Mr. Paul Kilburn, son of Dr. JSlbarn, a direct**" iSE the Sunderland and MiddlesbrougTi Philharmonic Societies, has taken up voluntary war duty as assistant in the Bishop Auckland signal cabin on the North-Eastern Railway. He took his 3kLA. at Cambridge a month ago, and is a member of the Symphony Orchestra. x At Brentford Police Court Joseph George Eden, of High Street, Ealing, exMayor of Ealing, was fined 40/ for selling bread which, on being weighed, was found to be two ounces short of 21b. The chairman, in announcing the penalty, said that a number of his brother magistrates told him that they had recently made a practice of weighing the bread in. their homes, and almost invariably found it short in weight. Anna Maria Wilmington (GD), Houseteine Farm, Gittisham, near Honiton, who was charged at Devon Assizes with. murdering her grandson, William Franks, who lived with her at the farm, was found insane, and ordered to be detained during His Majesty's pleasure. The evidence was that prisoner was upset at the prospect of the boy having to join the Army, and shot him with a gun as he lay in bed. The General Assembly of the Irish Presbyterian Church in Belfast recently adopted a resolution pledging the members during the term of the war and for sis months afterwards to give no support to any candidate for office under municipality, Church, or State who is connected .with the traffic in strong drink, or who refuses to pledge himself m writing to support prohibition. According to a report of the Finan.-e Committee of London County Coum-il, relative to the working-class dwellings and lodging-houses owned by that body, the financial results of the year ended March 31 last show a net surplus on all dwellings and estates in course of development of £11,1510, compared with £14,393 in the previous year. The decrease is ascribed as being due chietty to increased expenditure for taxes, lighting, lenting, etc., and allowances to officers jfß-A employees serving ■wit.h ..gortea.