News from All Quarters

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 104, 1 May 1920, Page 19

News from All Quarters

ANTI-BRITISH LABELS. The American (Post Office authorities are British propagandists who eurreptitlous-ly the words: "Hut nothing that is made in England." REQUEST TO WAR CRIMINALS. The "Official Gazette," issued in Berlin on March 2 contained a politely-worded request: — •'Will gentlemen irho know- that they arc on the Allied surrender list Inform the German legal authorities of their address?" FINED FOR 'EXAM." FRAUD. Eight French boys, 17 to 18, who bribed the official printer to give them advance proofs of certain examination papers, were all fined and sentenced to imprisonment, in .Paris, although they had lawyers, including a woman, to defend them. The ringleader was given six months' imprisonment and fined il-0. DUPING HIS WIFE. In a Tottenham case, Rose Diciiens, a widow, of Edmonton, stated that the defendant. James Henry Turner, of Bedford, caused her to go to his wife's home for the birth of her child, of w-hich he was the father. She was to tell the ■wife, she Turner was ordered- to pay 7/6 a week towards the maintenance of the child. A WEARING LIFE. An interesting matrimonial ca.ee is reported from Zurich, where the law affords unnsual facilities, says the "-Observer." It They were both aged twenty when, they married about six years ago. They were divorced within a year, fell in lova again, find marriage followed, with aztother divorce after fourteen months. Once more they were re-married, and divorce was pronounced a third time at Zurich yesterday. It must be a wearing life; and the chief danger seems to be that they will get married abeentmindedly some day out of due time, and so commit bigamy with, one another. BIGAMISTS ASK FOE "CAT." Two 'bigamists. John (Henry Saunders and James Stanley,, both of -whom had been convicted at the Central Criminal Court In London, receiving 12 months' and IS months' hard la/bour respectively, asked the court to set aside their sentences of imprisonment and impose instead strokes with the ••cat." Mr. Justice Darling said the law did not allow strokes with the "cat o' nine tails" to 'be given for bigamy, and consequently the court could not consider tie applications. If the law had allowed them to Bubstitnte the "cat" for a term of imprisonment, they might have considered, tne applications -with a disposition to oblige the prisoners. t A GOLD "CORPSE." Dressed in deep mourning, a man a! Hamburg applied for permission to embark a coffin for Norway. He filled in the necessary forms with the name, place of death, and destination for burial of the supposed deceased, -whose remains he was conveying Ihe explained, to be interred in his nativ( -land. The great weight of the coffin aronset i' the attention of the port authorities, ant 31 The horrified mourner protested again* s; this disrespect for the dead, but witnon; -1 avail, and the coffin was found to 'be ful of gold and silver ornaments which, con r trary to German law, were being exporteo 3 out of the country. T GLASS-CASE AIRMAN. I Major Rudolph Schroeder. the American : ! airman who recently established aa alti--7 i tude record of more than 36,000 ft, Is soon ■'; to make another attempt to reaci 50,00011 c i in the hope of finding trade winde blowing 3 \ west to east between 200 to 300 miles an ; " hour. Major Schroeder believes that the< future r of air rapid transit lies in taking advantage °! of high-velocity Dreezes in the rarefied *°! atmosphere 7 miles above the earth. He '"' contemplates on his next altitude flight c I enclosing himself in a glass case witl 1 ! oxygen tanks in the aeroplane. He Iβ con- : "; vinced he will then reach a height oi a ' 50.000 ft. e | He 1s still weak after the experience ol s his last flight, when he dropped five miles s while unconscious with his eyes frozen. He n : is wearing tinted glasses and expects soon to be at. # A "SLACKER." ie X well-known British sportsman of title in his will, recently proved, made the fol's lowing bequest: — to I beqneatii to my brother —(named)— :e the sum of one shilling, to show my lc appreciation of his noble sacrifice to his le country in avoiding Military Service until le compelled to join trp. ' c Tie testator himself, it need scarcely 'be said had served with the Forces. Q, JTTDG-E SIDES WITH 'BTGiiIIST. Ll " la liindinK over James 'Walter Bates, 23, U " I carman, who had pleaded guilty to bigamy ar 'ax the 0:d F.aiiey, Judge Atherley Jones !*| said:— " ! "You married a woman while yon were i a soldier, believing her to be aa honest and a , pnre woman. Fhe was unfaithful. On but she continued unfaithful. ••Then you met this other young woman, jvho was not happy at her home, and you 'married' her. Had she been your lawR fu! wife you would have been a -good husband to her. "You treated her well and she is iUached to you. It is a pity that you cannot procure a divorce." '-- TURNED KING'S EVIDENCE. ' r Qnite a sensation was caused in the Law Courts at Dublin when one of the thirteen 1- prisoners charged with having murdered J " I Sirs. -Ellen Morris, a woman of 60, during a raid for arms In her house near Eniss earthy, turned King's evidence, and, leav- , ing the dock, told a witness-box story II I which incriminated his twelve former com I panlons. •" ! He was James Decfcy, and he first told ls or a meeting In Jack Synnott's barn a; night at which all the prisoners were prea ; sent. One of the men, named Dwyer. said :e . that there were raids carried on everyI where except In this place. He asked who ts i was ia favour of raids, and they. Including 'S ; witness, put up their hands. He was as 13 i jruiity of the raid as any man Ln the dock. a j but he did not shoot the woman. He :e ! a:iide the statement on the advice of his J parish priest. °" ; William Morris, the hushand of the m-ar-a '! r'.ered woman, described the raid on the -d : liaise. He thought for a time the -whole • i thin? was a Joke, and tried to puU the j mask from one of the men who pointed n ■c, : revolver at him. One of "he men fired 'y i two shots, the second of which killed JiU s- j wife. 1C The twelve prisoners were sent for triil I to the assize

"PASSED BY CENSOR." All tie letters of a private and personal character seized in the recent raid on the Dublin Castle met van have retnraed mysteriously to tie 'Post Office with the stamped inscription, 'Massed in- Censor, Irish Eepurblic." STRAWBERRIES 6/- EACH. The Insurious lives led by the "new rich" gall the hearts of the "new poor" :n Belgium. On March o, in Brussels, although coal is scarce, forced strawberries were sold by auction in the frolt market. Nine berries fetched £2 15. The buyer was a Dutchman, and the market-women believe that the strawberries were for the exKaiser's table. EAVESDROPPING. Caught looking through a bathroom window, to which he had climbed lttft, John Ford, of Bolton. Lancashire, was bound eavesdropping. Tile wording of ttiG charge a.e?2inst iiim. was that "he did unlawfully listen by night under the wall, windows, and eaves of a. house to hearken after discourse, and thereafter to frame slanderous and mischievous tales against the peace of our sovereign lord the Kins/ PRISON FOR JEALOUS HUBBY. For setting are to his bouse, Kobert "Wilson, miner, was at Durham sentenced. to nine months' imprisonment. It was stated that Wilson wrote a letter to his wife from Aldershot, in which he accused her of going about with other men, adding: "I never fcnew how I loved you till I left you. If you do not write mc. this week I will start hunting for you." Wilson, who said he was drunk at the time, smashed the windows of the house, sprinkled paraffin about, and then, set fire to the ijedclotbinjr. STRIKERS RESENT OF AIR CASGO. Dutch dockers on strike at Amsterdam resented the arrival of an aeroplane from Brough, near Hall, with a cargo of women's costumes, and threatened to bnrn the machine. They were dispersed by police and troops. The aeroplane returned with a cargo of This was the first out-acd-home trip in connection vrith. the proposed commercial air service betweea Yorkshire and 'Hollaed. NO THIMBLES NO"W. Cotton. Is not the only source of anxiety Chronicle" -writer. ' Thimbles are now almost unobtainable. In pre-war days Ldlle, Nnremberg, and Vienna manufactured thimbles for nearly all Europe. Their factories are Bilent —crippled for .want of ravw material. Only four manufacturers in England—three at Birmingham and one ac Beddltch—trouble about thimbles. Their efforts can do but little to cope with th» •universal shortage. Where, by the tit, do all the old thimbles vanish, to 3 FATHER OF 16 GETS DIVORCE. A lather of sixteen children obtained a. divorce at the Scottish Court at Edinburgh. He Is HoToert Ferguson. He said he was 69 and married his wife In 1001, when he was a widower with eight children. There were also eight children of his second marriage. His ■wife took drink; lie did not. The'S she foegan to keep late hours, and her erense was that she was at the picture shows. Often" she did not return till midnight. In llaj last year she left him ana lived -with a man named Gunn in, a singleapartment house. fThe husband called to see her and found; the .two Hjing very happily together. A DESIRABLE DOBUCHE. Gibraltar seems to fulfil all the conditions of a "desirable residence" for -mar-worn. people (comments a writer la the ""Daily Chronicle.") There are no taxes, except on alcoholic Honors an<2 tobacco, and. tb*2 revenue, cnalnly derived from Customs and port dues, shows a handsome "balance ors the right side. The colony has no pub!l<s debt, and the prosperity of its inhabitants Is shown by the savings bank deposits, which doubled in a year, and at the end of 131S gave en average of £43 for esclx depositor. At present the British civil population numbers about 16,000. There is room for a few more on "Che Rock," because the census of 1911 enumerated , nearly 17,000 besides Maltese and aliens, wno have aisa diminished since then. PRINCESS' HOARD OF FROCKS. The wardrobe of the late Princess .LobanoC (nee Dolgoroalri) was sold recently in Paris at the Hotel Drouot, the State auction mart. It was the most amazing display of cloth- ! Ing ever seen. Dying at 63, the Princess ' 7 ] left a prodigious collection of every kind of * s j garment. From the time she was 17 she hoarded clothes. Her evening dresses number hundreds. She had 300 teagowna ] c alone. of underwear, never worn, never unpinned. 3. or -unfolded, with the tissue paper just as >y the workgirls had packed them. rare old laces, embroideries that must have re been the jealous work of month3—all were ld j bought wholesale. But for the war her ri'-a. )n clothing might have sold for a Eong, bat :r > now you cannot buy such material. ADRIFT TN" ATLiNTIC. w . In the privations of members of a ship's jg_ crew who were in an open boat in the Atlantic for 10 days, centred a terrible j s story of the sea, told at Liverpool, when a silver cup awarded by the K'.r.z of Norway in recognition of his services to the lTr ! siirvlvors of the Norwojrian bar<i::e San<iI hana, whifh foundered In the Atlantic on * d July 5, IMS. n _. Two boats were lann«-hed and remain Ml IT .I evening the liz-ht of the captain's boat went i out and the orrupants of tie other boam . heard cries for help. Owing to the state of the weather nothing coull be done to 3l( j render assistance. the regaining boat to capsize. The mea jjij clang to the boat and "a to the „. i keel. They lay on the bottom for half aa .^ o 'honr, and then righte-l her. They found j,™ I they had los: one man and nearly all o: a lj the equipment and provisions. j], On the following day tae cook became y e insane and died. Three days la'Pr the boat t, ls again capsized, an.l It took hai: an hour sr. and their sujiply ~: fresh water vras spolti. he A third time the boa: ■npsized, ar.i everyhe Then the steward drank salt water, becami a Insane, and dieJ. ect During a benvy rain shower the men iis took o£[ tbeir oiisklu rapes ar.l cau~it sufficient water to <lrlnk. i≤l The men had been in their open boat for