News From All Quarters

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 244, 12 October 1918, Page 15

News From All Quarters

CONSUL'S SUICIDE. Seoor Garcia Carazlo, the Consul for Urugnay at Marseilles, while handling a revolver, accidentally shot and killed a chambermaid. Overcome with remorse, he then shot himself. LUSITANIA LIAR INTERNED. Gustav Stahl. who served a sentence of eighteen months' imprisonment for committing perjury by falsely swearing that he saw 41n guns aboard the Lusitania, has been re-arrested in New York, and will be interned as a dangerons jilien. He has beeu at liberty a year. HUNS AS STRIKE-BREAKERS. Bath Trades Council have decided to protest to the Prline. Minister against the alleged use of German prisoners as strike breakers at Cranmore and Mendip Quarries, Somerset, where men are striking for union recognition. It stated that the Germans arc driven to work in brakes, "as though on a picnic." GAVE SIXPENCE TO HUN. At Cheltenham Police I'ourt, Mrs Kdtth Plumbc. whose son fought as a stoker in the Rritish Navy in the buttle of Jutland, was fined £7 10/ for giving sixpence to a German prisoner of war employed in the district on agricultural work, and on the occasion of the gift was in charge of some horses passing through the centre of the town. MILK REPLACES "WINE. Rottles of milk have been substituted for wine in christening ships at Portland, Ore. Suggestions have been made to the V.H. Shipping Roan) that the substitution be made geneiul at all shipyards. The bottles before being tilled with milk, according to tire Portland custom, must be nllpd with coins-i-ontributed by the workers for French and Rolgian orphans. A 12- YEAR-OLD TERROR. When George Le ("ape, aged IL , . wan charged at Woolwich Juvenile Court with stealing a' ring, his mother «aid he had— Stolen from her on several oi'-asions. Nearly burned the house down. Set fire to a bed. When he stole the ring in the present case he removed the stone and said he had found Ir. The boy wns committed to an industrial school. C.O.S'. BOOT AT MAGISTRATE'S HEAD. When Cecil Templeman, who said be was a conscientious objector, was fined £2 at Brentford, nnd ordered to be handed over to an escort, he stooped, and. taking off one of his Ix>ots. flung it at the chairman's head. It narrowly missed its mark, and Templpman was rapidly bundled out of the court by the police. HOW A CHILD WAS STRANGLED As Mrs Huntings, a miner's wife at Marsden, near Snnderland. was washing her two-.vear-oicl adopted daughteV. she fainted with the child in her lap. The child fell on the floor -with its neck on the edge of the l>anin o-' water. Mrs Hastings fell on the top of the child, and her weight pressing the neck of JJie child on the edge of the basin strangled it. When the woman was removed the infant was dead. MINER'S HEROIC FEAT. The King has awarded the Edward Medal to Thomas .Tones, who risked his life by supporting n heavy stone which was about to fall on a boy in the I'wo Cvnon Colliery. The boy was pinned down hy a hundredweight and a-half of stone, and another fall was imminent. Jones prevented a further fall until he was forced by weakness to let the stone drop, when It missed tbe boy. Though the hoy died of his injuries, it Is considered that Jones' action, in which stanlaneous death of the boy. MOTHER'S AWFUL CRUELTY. For what was described as "brutally exressivp punishment" inflicted on three children, their mother. Annie Hnyden, was at Rirminghjm sentenced to six months' imprisonment. The woman Is n brassworker. and on going home from her work received a complaint as to the behaviour of the children. Later they were found stripped naked and tied to a bedrail, their backs being covered with weals. The prisoner returned to her work, leaving the children naked in the room. Their ages were eleven, six, and four respectively. ' ARCHANGEL 30 YEARS AGO. I was in Archangel SO years ago, before it had any railway (writes a correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle") . Kven then it was a largo and busy town, having much traffic with our East Coast. I remember the town had an enormous prison, in which political convicts were acclimatised for the rigours of the Siberian winter, and these convicts (some of whom, I noted, had cigarette cases of gold) worked with Russian women in the loading of ships. One soldier with an obsolete rifle had charge of each 50 prisoners, and his job was a sinecure, because even in the event of a bolt bis charges couid escape to nowhere in particular. HEREDITY IN NAVAL LIFE. Heredity plays a great part in naval life, says the "Daily Chronicle." The commander of the Vindictrve. -who has just Tβceived his V.C., comes from a long line of naval ancestors. His great-grandfather wns Admiral Carpenter, his grandfather was also in the Navy, and his father, Albert Carpenter, was a most daring and gallant nsval officer. Francis Carpenter himself, the V.C. hero, was, before the Xeebrugge exploit, well known in the Navy, n nt only as a brilliant officer but also an inventor of great USE to the Service. His uncle Is E<iwnrd Carpenter, author of "Towards Democracy." whose reminiscences have just appeared. THE HEALTH OF QUEEN ALEXANDRA. It is not exactly matter for astonishment to hear that the health of Queen Alexandra is causing some anxiety to those around her. There Is. happily, nothing vitally wrong, nnd if you met her and she talked to you you might detect no change in her sweet beauty, in the gracious, interested, cordial friendliness of her manner. But her anxieties concerning her sister and other Russian relatives have made an impression (Kays A.M.R. in the "Liverpool Post"): at seventy-three and over one cannot receive news of the murder of a nephew withont a twinge of feeling, and Queen Alexandra always has been particularly devoted to those of her blood. The Princess Royal is anxious to perRtiade her mother to pay an autumn visit to Mar Lodge in order that a complete change of scene and air may do their work, and the King, most deroted of eons, seconds those efforts warmly.

HUGE PROFITS ON STOUT. * The Dublin brewers, Arthur Guinness, 1 Son, and Co., Limited, made a profit on 1 brewing during the year ended June 30 '■ last of £4,102,601, and the net profit is £2,022,056, after allowing for the payment of £1,995,461 in excise and licence duties and general expenses. SUPERSTITION AND PEACE. ! Cumberland fanners have discovered 1 curious marks on torn crops, says the "Pall I Mall Gazette." 1 On the inside of the blades of corn tha letter B can be discerned, and in certaia fields of barley the grain bears a V mark. The country people claim that these " initials stand for "British victory," and - portend an early pence. ' Curious marks -were found on the com > in 1835, the last summer of the Crimean. ; War. I £10.000 DIAMOND ROBBER.V. At Pretoria Johannes Roux, who served at Arras with the South African Horse Artillery, was sentenced to three years' , imprisonment for the theft of £10,000 worth. i of diamonds from the Jagersfontein Mine, where ho was employed. ' For the defence' it was contended that , the stones were gathered by Roux at the \ Vaal River diggings. The point of the case turned on the scientific difference between pipe and river stones. BARGEWOMEN. Among the later Innovations of war (says , a writer in the "Globe") are the bargewomen who run the canal service between Hayes and Liverpool, some 300 miles. The girls live entirely on board, looking after the engines, steering the boat, and -worting the locks, as well as looking after their cabins and cooking their own'food* Usually four girls have charge of two barges, one motor or horse-4>arge being? used for towing. The barges are used, wholly for food transport. BOOT QUEUES. Boot queues, which begin to assemble at midnight, are among the latest signs of the distressful times in Germany. According to the "Tdgeblatt," it is a common sight nowadays in Berlin and other large towns to see a queue of as many as twenty people, mostly ;women, -who have stood (oD slept) for eight hours Tvaiting their tnrn ta buy new or second-hand boots and shoes at extortionate prices. Holding places In hoot i queues ha« become a regular livelihood foe people, the price for such sendee being £1 or a ponnd of bntter! THE HUSBAND'S LAMEWTr "I can't live with my wife; she doesn't wash my socks properly," said an aircraft worker summoned at Tottenham for deserting his wife. The Clerk: "That was no reason why, you should desert her." The man replied that since they hail separated he had found out how to get a clean shirt and food Independent of a woman. He admitted that he had earned as much as £17 in one week. A separation order was granted and the man was ordered to pay his wife £2 a week. BABY BORN IN STREET. Louisa Koe (33). domeetlc servant, wae at Stratford committed for trifil on charge of abandoning her newly-born baby boy. A cry was heard in the waiting room of the Leyton Midland Railway station on June 21, end on investigation being made It was found that a child had been wrapped in a brown-paper parcel. It was alleged that defendant had told a detective that the baby -was born in the street, and that she had left it at the rail- , way station while she went to get a gown. When she returned the baby had gone. WAGES IN MUNITION WORKS. Apropos the Berlin metal workers' agitation for higher wages, the "Berliner Tage* blatt" states that £13 a week of 54 to 60 bonne ie now being earned tjy thousands of German munition workers, especially on piece work. Not only skilled artisans, bo* inexperienced youths of from IS to 20 yeart of age are getting such wages. The standard wage is said to average from 2/ to fy an hour, while piecework commands varh oußly 4A a/, or 6/ an hour. In addition, most inanition factories provide a midday meal worth 2/ or 3/, for 1/, and ateo enable their employees to purcßaee clothes an<l food at special prices. £100 FINE FOR PAPER WASTING. For sending ont "unreasonable and e3M cessive" advertising circulars, William B\ Mitchell, of the National Institute o£ ■ Sciences. Westminster Bridge Road, wa» fined £100 or three months. ; Mr Hay Hnlkett (the magistrate): "What 1 is the defendant? , Mr Barker (prosecuting): "If yon ask mc 1 what he is I should say he is a swindler." ! The firm, it was alleged, purported ta • give instruction by correspondence in ; mental suggestion. One member was • asked to lenve the country in 1916 as a> 1 undesirable alien. A FAMILY QUARREL. Two grandsons of Walter Savage Lanflor, 1 the distinguished mid-Victorian author, appeared at Row Street to answer a charge of insulting behaviour. They were Henry Savage T.andor, the traveller, and his younger brother, Hugh Savage Landor. A policeman said that he saw the ■ brothers qu.irelling, fighting, and abusing ' each other, with a big crowd about them. On behalf of Henry Savage Landor it was • explained that the younger man, whom he had treated with great kindness, had ; ennsed him annoyance in connection with litigation o\er their father's will. For , Hngh Landor it was said that his elder . brother had assaulted him and a lady who was in his company. . The brothers were bound over to keep the peace. MARRIAGE AND EMIGRATION. A friend who for many years has been in charge of the department of emigration in London at the agency for one of the States of Australia informs mc that marriage as between colonial soldiers and Englishwomen promises to become a most proline factor of Empire emigration, says a correspondent of the "rail Mall Gazette." He reasons in this way. People emigrate ■ to join their friends, us a rule, in the new country. The colonial soldiers, by taking back English wives, are making new personal and family links between the Dominions and tlie mother-country. Tonnget relutives of said wives, as ther grow up, will go our to the country to which these married women have hoen taken as soldiers' wives. This will keep emigration within the The number of marriages by Canadian, Australian, and Npw Zealand soldiers is astounding. Englisft girls are making money by marrying a colonial soldier, drawing the handsome separation allowance, and earning a salarjt in office or shop or /actory at the same time.