News from All Quarters

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 23, 28 January 1922, Page 19

News from All Quarters

TV "--' i'roronu; missionaries arrived la .T.ip-l:. :■; ISM. The •*<.•::<■«■ w.i:c!, jn thp „.„,,.] |s a j oK e;>| M-..■:... .. ~wued by ..he I\.p e . Uis valui-d a: '■■". .TapnnMf workiH-n wear ~n caps an l iki.i.s nn in.cri|:-..ti m.v]ii S Unlr business iii.l I'.n'ir i-iiii-!..j ••:'-• p.in:e. Bnhcmi.i pr. ;■••<(••■ ■ i c..|n n small currency to ii n:»:f;i--: :•:-■■ '.i.,;: !hc prc-Plii ii'.ctal curri'ii \v. 0.8.E.-S THREE-CARD TRICK. Ing :!'• :Hre, ■•nr.l -r: 1, ai 11.m>; i\,rk ra ,.,."«, a BPW-iL--ii- i..■i.;,.1 :>,;,: ■•),. ,i j.] z ,, n .\ s ,. rvi ,. e In tlie v .ir i: i! « s . a«.ir.lc.| the uH X The I -..ii." ; ~11 T!e ll U.K. riffcndsii: 1.-. ;,,■:-,. L ,rc the papers He vus tilled ij. WALKED THROUGH SHOP WINDOW. ni ct'Tl'l.'! I ",' 1 '■"■"'""" : " n No,,i »K----e.\peri"t:. c. Hγ iiiNt..uk the e\it. and. liefore anybody could stop him. ~.: 1ii .,.,| straight through the large plate uln** window. Vicv. of |i,. iv J,, ~; l ,iire,-tion«. but the man c>. aped injury. THE MOUSE RAN UP . A n.iry of ii moused night ride out, ,hic.v,-le i-nnirs fr mi the South Wales mining district <•'. Ulsca. A woman suspended her bicycle by :\ rope In a sliid the other evening. A mouse. exploring, f-ll . n the fmni wheel, which caused it to ruidve. and the further the Next morning it was found that the cylo-mi-tor rf,.,r.!.-.| Iwent.vck'bt inii.'s. Not had for a mouse in one night: INSULTED BY WHISTLING OF AN ENGINE. A cer.eral s:rikf was di-i-lar.il by Italian railway employees. f..;i .win- :i tigiii betwee:i I Borne of their number of a trainloa.l of Fascial! wlio w.rc J.uirneying to Home to the fascist! CoiiKr.'s*. The ili-iurhancf. vas caused by the reseutmen: of the Kas.isti at the whistling of enulnes at a certain p..in: which they passed en nmte, whistling being very insulting In Italy, due railwayman was killed, mid a number of men on both sides badly handled. Knsrlsli are young Italians opposed to Socialism and I'oiiimum'sm. VICTORY'S LAST BERTH. j Durine IlecemLer Nelson's Victory, which ! has been the flngship of the Admiral of the! port of Portsmouth for nearly 100 years,' was moved from her familiar moorings and placed in dry dock for examination. Since IWX when she was taken into dockyard for repair after being holed by the! battleship Neptune, the old ship has been [ continuously in the water. Naval experts! are doubtful whether the ancient hull will ! again stand the straiu of midockiug onee 1 she has been placed in dock. j A suggestion that the flagship should lie retained iv dry dock has beeu made by the Portsmouth authorities to the Admiralty, j whose decision may be influenced by the tesult of the forthcoming survey. I NEVER TO LATE TO " BOB." j The oldest inmate of the Daughters of Israel Home at Newark. Now Jersey, n woman of 11U years, has had her hair bobbed. The management of the home were much j upset when tho old lady requested that her j t>t vie of bairdrfssinc; phoulil be ma.de t.o j accord with the prevailing fashion. The matter was gravely discussed, and as there was nothing in the rules and regulations to the contrary they gave way to granny's Insistent demnnd that her hair should be bobbed. "Just like the other girls." That done the happy centenarian said: "1 am only 110, and I expect to break the record of my grandmother, who lived to be JUDGE AND MOTHERHOOD. While he could not compel a woman to undergo an operation, an American judge j told her that if she refused he would commit j all her children to a home. > The woman and her husband then accepted the order of Judge Graham, of the Denver Children's Court that she should submit to an operation making further motherhood impossible. The judge took the action, {because of the under-nourisliment of the woman's livo children and the habitual insanitary condition of her home. The evidence before him showed that tl:e|j conditions were due not to poverty but to. | too-frequent child-bearing. j "Judge Graham has gone far beyond his j Jurisdiction," is the view of Mrs. Hudson l.yall. pre>.dent of the Mothers" I/uion. "His order is again.-t every law of God and nature. The whole idea of marriage will be destroyed if the power to decide whether n woman shall have a family Is handed over to judges." HIS THREE " WIVES. -, An extraordinary story was told at Hyde When John William dates, aged SS, was remanded on a charge of bigamy, and the chief constable informed the bench that there would probably lie a second charge against accused. A Hv.le woman, whose maiden name was Sarah KadollfTe, but is now known as Mrs. HadtieM, s.ii'l Hie went through the form. ef marriage with OateS in IS'JU. She lived with him 1C \enrs. and ha.l eight children. Then he told her that she had no claim on him as he had a wife who was living when | he mar;.,-.i her. Halm had re;.rc-son!ed hlUiself as a <in-1,. ma::, and had diwrilied himself as xlnuW- "U tl .-rtiri.-.-,:... Ellen CbaUiincr 1..1.1 ii oiirt she was "married" to iut.-s iv loisi m st.i.-kport. she knew the la.st wltni-s* μ-im llvinjt, but thought her marriage with Oates was Invalidated bei-nu.-e she hud married again. The chief ■■■■u»tiili|t> <;ii.l he understood Oates' first wife, whom lie is supposed to have married some time before lslio, was living at Luwuju'jr. near Hr-idfoid. 290,000,000 SHELLS. The Kren.-h Minister of War has just published figures giving the total number | of shells, cartridges, rifles, cannon, machine-! Kuns, etc.. manufactured from 1014 to IMS in French war factories. They are, indeed, prodigious. The total number of shells of all calibres tea.-bed -Mi.M'.'.OOO. fither liuiir.-M show: — ruses. 4i*.l»Ki/ Kill.- . urtri lir.-s fur the iufantry. G.:i(X).ooij,fiOO. Rifles and carbines. L',375,0W. Machlue-guus, sT.OuO 1T.S;;O of the .':• cannon. C.7L"J cannou of heavy calibre. 5.300 tanks. For uen.-h material and munitions the weight Of metal used was 200.000 tons: 200.0<Kl motors for aeroplanes were made: ■jti.ooo fins "f a»phy.\imiriK material manufactured; 1. ll>i«ii.i t'.vs of powder and To these must be added side arms, tools. and a whole lot of accessories, the total of which would be equally considerable.

1 riangkok. the capital of Siam. is a floatini klty, containing TO.liWi houses, each of whirl ' noats on a raft of bamboo. t « A farmer's wife }„ !,,w 3 . r.S.A.. has jn> Deconie the mother of the flfih set of twin: .bom lo her wliula the last eight years. i ' The readout population of the City of Lon J"" i< sill! Bhrltikhiß. Sixty years ago i; , i!ii:nl,ereil 3 l-'.00.i. In 1001 it had fallen U -n.'.c:;: in mn lo m,05". Last year it nai '•uly 1J.2110. EVERY PICTURE TEIXS A STORY. ■The wives of all men who rirink should lake pictures of their husbands when they are drunk, and hang them In a conspicuous place. This might make them stop drink ii] '' This was (he ndvlen given by Magistral! llrowd. in the Krooklyn Court when denimwith several cases of Intoxication. DECIMAL SHILLING. By an rir.ipr in Council there is in be. coined for the Colony of Kenya and the Kenya : ami IVin.la ITotectorates a -Rritlsb Kast Afri.a sliUiing," which will he the standard All coins of les>,. r value will hear their value in ,-en:s ~:- hnndr-dllis of a bIiUIIuk. 'Hie shiiline will !.. letral tender for any amount. ;he r.o ~.,-,, ~|,.,-es for payment*' n..r e-Noordinz lii sh illuc. and pieces of less value than :*> cents fur payments not o\(.sfdlng one shilling. METHUSELAH'S MITE. To Illustrate how dollars will e-arii dollars If placed at Interest. -Mr. Joseph S. M.-Coy. Liovi-rniueni Actuary, has just performed a •■stunt' , in mathematical wizardry, says tl.e •Cenira! News" from Washington. .Mr. McCoy took Methuselah ns nn example If Methuselih ha.l Invested one dollar ;« ii I'cr cent, compounded annually, whi-ii lie was twenty-one years of age. his wealth would I li.ii." amounted to nT7.l."»7.!'(io.niKi.iioii mil) ■ 0U1..0U0 at the age of OOT, when he died. Tliu Kr.crcsL on sucn a fortune for a fraction ut |n second would pay all the world's v.ar debts to-day. PERAMBULATOR USED AS A HEARSE. An unusual funeral procession wended its Way through the Northamptonshire village o£ Barnack, near Stamford, recently. A five-weeks-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Sentence, a workiug-claes couple of Scuiij thori c. died from Influenza. Unable to, afford the customary ceremonial, the idecideu to use the child's perambulator as a I hearse. I Aα elm coffin, -with enamel fittings, was places! inside the vehicle, which was -wheeled to the cemetery hy the baby's grandmother. The parents, the only other mourners, walked on each side of the perambuUtor. ! PRINCESS CINEMA PROPRIETOR ! The fallen Koyalties of Europe have been ' encased In various amusing pastimes, from J the humble wood-cutting of Wilhelm to the cavalier escnpadep of Karl; but a note of originality has beeu struck by Princess pold of the Belgians, who has successfully I applied to the Budapest authorities to run j a cinema in the town. I The Princess' life has not been very I fortunate hitherto. She lost her rirFt hushand, the Archduke Hudolph, in ISR!>, and nine years later her mother-in-law was assassinated in Geneva. She married, secondly. Prince Elemer Lonyay, of a very I old Hungarian noble family, and had Berl- ! ous trouble with her father over the union. NEEDLE EXTRACTED FROM A CHILD'S HEART. A steel needle has been removed from the heart of Dawson Bandies, two years old, at the Elliott Memorial Hospital at the University of Minnesota. The child fell while playing, and later complained of a pain in his left side. An X-ray examination revealed the needle. Dr. A. C. Strachauer. chief of the surgical staff at the hospital, found when operating that the needle had entered the I heart. At each contraction of that organ j 'he head of the needle came Into view. I 'With tiny forceps the doctor extracted it, and within a short time the heart, which had been beating IUO times a minute, returned to normal. A PETTICOAT COMEDY. A girl was running to catch a 'bus in Oxford Srreet, London, says the "Sunday Chronicle." Suddenly she tripped, nearly. (fell, and then stopped. ( Everybody stopped, too, to star? at her. I Her petticoat, a dainty affair, all frills and j ribbon—was round her ankles. She snatched at the garment, and then lost her head completely. Stepping out of ihe foamy, beribboned circle and leaving it behind her, she ran to a tube station near by. and disappeared. Another girl strolled towards the petticoat, picked it up, turned it inside out. examined the material, folded it, placed it in her muff, and with a defiant glance at the spectators, walked calmly away. MOST EXPENSIVE STRIKE ON RECORD. A strike of ten hours of tho employees of the Uerlin electricity works, which recently plunged the city into darkness and closed down the tronis. the local trains, and the theatres, ended by the men's terms being agreed to. It must be reckoned one of the most costly strikes on record, as it is estimated I that It cost G.00n.000 marks t'£3oo,ooo nt the normal rate of exchange). The increased wanes granted mean a yearly expenditure of 2.-.C.000.000 marks (£12.800.000). and other increases just granted to other municipal workers, raises that sum to 400,OOO.fiOO (£20.000,000). this expenditure, being practically bankrupt, so the City Council intends to apply to the State for assistance. RULES FOR THE FAMILY. "A man is entitled to order his house as he thinks lipst. and if a son does not carry out the rules the father thinks necessary j for the good of the house tlie father is ; entitled by law to give notice to quit." This comment was made by Mr. Morkill, the chairman of the bench, at Leeds, In giving judgment in a case of domestic differences between father and son. It was stated when the case was heard that thp father had made certain rules for the control of the family, and one was that the son concerned should be home by 11 o'.-lock nt night. This was rarely complied with, ami quarrels were frequent, the fathpr ultimately ordering the sou out of the house. The Bon refused to go, and after blows had been struck the mother said that if the son went she would go too. Finally the father left the house and took up his residence elsewhere. His wife then summoned him for desertion. The chairman said that the man's action comprised desertion. The action of wife and son might have been contributory caused, hut with justification. If the man did not return in a fortnight an order for J. 5/ a week would be made.