News from All Quarters

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 47, 24 February 1923, Page 19

News from All Quarters

rOBGOTTEN LOANS. An extraordinary echo of the coal strike e f 1921 was beard at a meeting of Wrexham Board of Guardians, when a statement flowed that of the rtllcf grunted to colliers on loan the amount outstanding was #3,000, while the sum collected In repayment last quarter was 9/ ! THE ONE FLAW. When a constable, giving evidence at Uuryleboiie, Id a betting prosecution, said be was disguised as a working man, one of the defendants said. "Ah: but he made one mistake. He wiped his none with a red tandkercblef. That is a thing a working man never does, for he always carries Ula food In his handkerchief." CHICKEN WITH A WOODEN LEG A hen at St. Clpar'u far™. Carmarthen, net with an arc Ment wlilrh necessitated amputation of Its leg at the joint, says the "Dally Chronicle." An amateur veterinary iurgeon successfully performed the operation, replacing the Inst limb with a neat wooden leg. The fowl is now able to get tbont the yard and shows no sign of discomfort. DEATH " WATCH." For killing one pic while another pig looked on, a slaughterman. Alfred Puke, ■nd two assistants. Robert Allen and Henry Winder, were each fined 6/8 at Folkestone. The summonses were issued under a ■pedal by-law under which no animal may , be killed In the slphr of another. The defence was that one pig ran into tbe slaughterhouse while the other was being slaughtered. BIGHT RESTORED AFTER 4O YEARS. A Belfast man has recovered his eight ifter being blind for forty years. A specialist' has removed a piece of glass the eize of a threepenny piece from the eye of a man named John Flnnnigau, who states that 40 years ago his eye was injured through a bottle bursting. FUnnlgan bad since been blind, and lacterly he felt such pain ttaet he had to eon-' nit t doctor. The light of the eye has now been Mtored. ITJICIDE BECAUSE HE HAD NO CHRISTMAS BOX. Worried because, he said, he had not Rcelved a Christmas box. and was mil rlihed a happy Christmas, a 17-year-oM motor driver, Harold Edward Hunt, ot Rnraitead, threatened to throw up his jub. Be was later found hanging In a garage, hiring apparently stood on a petrol tin aul then kicked It way. Hunt's father, at the inquest, eaid hi* ■on always had a smile for everyone, but he wee an Impressionable youtu nnd little things worried him. i WIRELESS MARRIAGE ILLEG At< Tee United States Attorney-General has ' jlven his opinion that marriage by wireless li not legal. A San Francisco clergymnn wi to have broadcasted the marrlag? ritnal to the contracting parties in New Tork City, whose responses In turn were to have been broadcasted back so that the ' entire continent might "listen-in" on the ceremony. "I am of the opinion," ruled Charles O. Newton, the Attorney-General, "that any attempt by a clergyman or magistrate to perform a marriage ceremony without being actually present with the contracting parties, witness or witnesses, would not comply with the mandate of the itatntes of New York State." HOT A BED OF ROSES. For ieventeen years William White's wife kad taken her husband his breakfast to bed *Tery day and his dinner nearly every day. Then one day the breakfast was missed, following a difference the previous night. Dinner was taken, but White seemed to be Mleep. When he did not go downstairs to i tea and Mrs. White went to rouse him ehe found he was dead. Commenting on this nt the Inquest, the Scarborough Coroner said It was extremely odd that death should have oeenn-ed on the only day on which tbe man's breakfast had tot been taken to him In seventeen years, tut he saw no reason to doubt the widow's Teraion or reproach her. The coroner's officer said Mrs. White's life bad not been a bed of roses. A verdict that death was due to senile decoy was tetnrned. VENT BACK TO MOTHER. "He says he can't leave his mother," said | «r». Ellis to tbe Brighton Justices, when; her 21-year-old husband, Herbert Ellis, dnema artist, appeared before them to •how W hy he ha(] failed tQ maintaln ber After a fortnight's courtship we were ■urrled lart September," she added. "Since 'hen he has done no work. nn# he refuses to do any. A week after tbe wedding he went to live with his parents. I cave him •11 the money I had and he deserted mc. I ■obtained a maintenance ordpr against him «Ut month, but he has not paid anything." "He seems to have married thoughtlessly •nd shirked the responsibility." said Sir John Blaker. "He will be committed to Prison, for a month h t th a til l •ntpended for 14 days to give him a chance t» pay. It may bring back his sense of iHpoMlblllty. Marriage Is no joke." Ellis left the Court arm in arm with his mother. EX-KAISER'S " DEAL. According to an exchange dispatch from jHwn, ex-Kaiser Wilhelm tins sold for £2000 the world rights in what he describes as the ««t Official photograph of his recent wed™>g to the Keystone View Company, of London and New York.

The photograph shows the former war ™J ta Field-Marshal's uniform, with his Jnfle, who is wearing the famous diadem. "» weddlnjr sift from the bridegroom, •tending beside him.

H !■ nnderstoofl that (he ex-Kaiser was «on«lderahly annoye.l on learning of th< •"* fl t» i( inade out of Ills portrait by "un"metal" and unauthorised photographers. Wα that this consideration, combined with • desire to augment hie income for the "-nristmas festivities—for which elaborate j™ extensive preparations were made nt "torn—led him to take the present step.

A MURDERESS PARDONED. A case which some ton years aco excited ertat deal of Interest and a regular oamWlgn for clemeuoy is reviewed in the P"don Just announced of Angelino Napolittno, a woman under sentence of life imprisonment at Kingston (Canada) penlten-

She wa« fount? guilty of murdering her jHUbsnd at Sault Ste. Marie and sentenced * n »nged. Clemency was sought on the Poonde that the woman was the mother of •B Infant and particularly by reason of her Moteet that the crime was committed Mcauee her husband desired her to live a I" of ehaine to Rupport him. The sentence *»« commuted to life imprisonment, but meanwhile friends linve not failed to Inter- **"*• An order of executive clemency has ™en limed and she will be released in a ™7 <l»ye and go to live with people whose **«c«Mlon for her haa been continuous.

W*EK IOVr OAMB BAOK.

; A COSTLY "JOKE." Seeing a man named Jacqneg p . Willie Durand stealthily crept up with a lighted match .„„ eet the peper P . b 7 a £ » Pailow , beard caught flre and the man I* in hospital suffering f rom , eTere rac f a , burns, while the practical -Joker" U in i;:r uipro,,,biybavMo^ h^ BILLIARDS WICKED AT CHRISTMAS. By an Act of Parliament passed in 1843 It became an offence to use billiard tables on Christmas Day. Good Friday, aud other "fast" day B . says the -Dally Chronicle." This enactment was brought into force at Nunoaton Police Court, when Albert Hellls, landlord of the Red Lion Hotel, was ordered to pay costs upon the complaint that he hnd allowed billiards to be played on Christmas Day.

AN ATLANTIC NEWSPAPER. The "Daily Mail" announces that at the beginning of February an "Atlantic edition 'of the "Daily Mall" will be Printed and published aboard the B reat Cunard llnera running between England and New York and other North Atlantic Ports It will absorb the present daily bulletin issued by , he Cunard Company, and wu, be edited aboard by experienced ournallsts. A special wireless service to it win b e sent from Britaln and the va States giving the latest news. HUSBAND " STALKED ' BY JEALOUS WIFE. ab'ltT Wh ° " aid Dis *Ke snowed him about to Bee that be did nor speak to other women asked the Willesden magistrate for a separation. i His wife's "unworthy suspicions." ho said, stopped him from doing his work pro|P"ly. Her Jealousy was getting on his nerves, and he could stand It no longer The magistrate said he could not grant him a separation on such grounds, and referred him to the court missionary. DRAMATIC SUICIDE. A 14-year-old girls dramatic suicide Jn Havre Police Station has solved the mystery of her disappearance from her mother's home. The girl, who lived a few miles from Havre, was found by a policeman wandering about the main square of the Port. Being unablo to give a clear account of herself, the policeman took her to the police station. While waiting for the chief inspector to come she matched a revolver from another inspector and shot herself dead. UNKISSED WEPE GRANTED A DIVORCE. Mrs. Charlotte Bancroft, of Oak Park Chicago, recently obtained a divorce ou tlugrounds that her husband after marrylnher "merely looked at mc." She testified that Mr. Bancroft before her marriage told her that he had never kissed a woman. Believing (hat he had luld up a large store of kisses, Mrs. Charlotte married him. That was two years ago.

"During the whole of our ruarrie<l life." she tOKtlfie-rt, "he never kissed mc. He did look at mc. and I got tired of that." Judge Kavanngh thought the reason given by Mr*. Bancroft justified a divorce. A BAREFOOT MILLIONAIRE. Rankin fleinmons, "barefoot millionaire," died at the age of ninety. He owned more land than any single holder In all the Blue Oraes region of Kentucky. He amassed a million dollars by bis own strenuous and persistent efforts. He used to walk barefoot in the summer, thought meney wasted In buying clothes, never wore a watrh in hie life, never bought a newspaper or a book, never called In any physician, and was exceedingly fond of the sunshine. When asked on his death-beil whether he had anything to say to the coming generation, he replied that everyone shouM attend to his own business.

THE U.S.A. WAY. Yonne nnd good-looking murderesses In the L'nlted States are rarely found guilty (says an American evening paper). "When a woman assists her tiresome husband or her unfortunate lover or her bated rival to die, the twelve more or less good and partially true men who hear tbe damning evidence against ber usually announce with entirely serious faces that she is not guilty. She must lie a most unattractive specimen before the Jury will so far foreet itself as to permit a woman to be convicted of murder. In short, she has to have a face that would stop a clock. For the «nke of men it seems not unreasonable to ask that just one decent-lnofcinj? mnrderess be convicted every few months as an Intimation to her (sister!) who contemplate murder that the lawn nenlnst the taking of human life still apply t> women."

INHUMAN GTPST. A story of inhuman cruelty was told at Truro when Abraham Boswell. a (tipsy, was sentence-.! to three months for his treatment of his year-old eon. nis wife said Boswell did not like the child, end about a month before Chrlstmns he struck him In the face. They were living in a tent nt Mitchell Moors, and he put a cigarette end against the child's body, '■ausing two burns.

Another nieht hp lifted the chUd aeninot the stovo. placing Its fleeh asralnst the hot bars. She snatched the child away, and tried to take him into bed with Uer. but be made him sleep on the floor.

TTer husband had previously bitten the child's ears and drawn a knife across his throat and threatened to kill him and bury him on the moors. Medical evidence corroborated the wife's story.

BRIDESMAID BtTYS HUSBAND.

An extraordinary incident occurred at a wedding which has .luet taken place »i Louisville. Kentucky. U.S.A. A bride and bridegroom—Mies Knby Henderson and Sir. Raymond Fowler—were on their way to the residence of the magistrate to be married, when a suggestion was made tout the bridegroom might choice. Mr. Fowler, declaring that either the bride" or Mies Helen Francis, the bridesmaid, would make an excellent wife, agreed to the letter's purchasing him from Miss Henderson, the price being the bridesmaid's gold bracelet wnleu B he was wearing at the time. The bargain was closed there and then. «nd the party having reached the magistrate's house, Mr Fowler was married, not to the bride with whom he set out tor the ceremony but to her bridesmaid, Mies Krancls. After the wedding the party returned home, everybody being very pleased with the unique transaction.