Around the Globe

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 251, 20 October 1923, Page 19

Around the Globe

After taking pan in a water polo match i at Forton, Lleut.-Colonel Walter T. Cress- j well Jones, ■!!>. turned ill and died. Two small boys were playfully pushing a barrow in Shoreditcb. when the handle ! accidentally struck .T.>lin Howard, -l. on tic i hotly nnd caused his death. ! For rescuing three officer." of the Air . Force when their seaplane caught fire in the Solent, the Air Ministry has sent a i reward of money to Capt. Wnodford and | the crew of tne s.s. Spray, or Newport, j I-*'. i Lance-Sergeant Ilerherr Pugh. Iluyal En- j j pinecrs. stationed at Slmmcliffe. was fonnd ] iin the barrack room yesterday dead from ; I a gunshot wound. The rifle was held between j I his less, and it is thought that he pushed j I the trigger with one of Ilia spurs. At the j inquest it was snid that l'ugh was £30 ; Khort in bis accounts. MY LADY'S FUBS. j Three Healing vessels have returned to j iTromsoe with a total catch of four thousand j I Mai. ten dead and ten living Polar bears, j land seven hundred barrels of seal blubber, j 1 STILL SEEKING SLAYER. j A forty-eight hour hnnt by the whole murdered two policemen la New York. The murderer's woman companion and the chauffeur who drove Ihem away are still missing. 'ONXY £200,000. -, Mme. Gulnza, the South American victim of a hotel rot>oery at Deaaville, says that fortunately she iiad most of her jewels on nnr at the time, and thua the value of tne stolen remnant ot uer jewels was oaly £WO,OOO. MARRIED CHH.DBEN. "It is ridiculous tor two children snen ; • s you. having found yourselves married, to be coming here for a separation order," eald the Mayor of Olffham tn the local police court, to Edwin Lenhani and his wife, who are both nnder 17. The eirl charged her husband with persistent cruelty since shortly after tnelr marriage Inst December. Sne eald they laa one child. The pair were told to go home and mate up their differences. TRAGEDY OF A TAMH.Y. Frederick Polkey (17), of South Normanton, Derbyshire, was killed while at work on a bank at a pit of the Blackwell Colliery Company. He got jammed between some ladder steps and a railway wagon, and hi? neck was broken. A remarkable feature of the fatality S3 that the man's father and brotner were killed at the pit within five months. Previous to that another son was killed at a neighbouring colliery. Polfcey has left a widowed mother and one brother. HUSBAND AS JUDGE. Jean Quentln, aged 43, ordered his wire to throw herself Into the Setae at ParlS-4' the couple were on the banks of the river near Notre Dame. A detective, dressing niter having taken n dip in the river, overheard the man say to the woman she must pay the penalty for her infidelity. She knelt to beg his forgiveness, crying, "I don't want to die." But the man was obdnrate, and was Ebout to throw her in when the detective seized him and bonnd him wiUx a wet towel. HEROIC RESCUE OX GIRDER. A story of thrilling bravery was related at Llanelly Copper Works, when Harold Ashton (17) received a gift on behalf of A man was engaced in repairing a roof, when he slipped and crashed through. His clothes caught in a girder in the descent, and be was suspended 40 feet above the Iron floor. Ashton climbed on the girder, wriggled along, and then, holding the girder with one hand, pulled the suspended workman up on to the girder with the other to comparative safety. Had either fallen It would have meant certain death. A large crowd of workmen watched the echo for his bravery. GIRL THEFT COIXAPSES IN DOCK. At Glasgow Sheriff Court recently a girl of 19 admitted stealing Jewellery from premises, where she was employed, and also obtaining Jewellery from another firm under false pretenses. An agent pointed out that the girl had given away some of the Jewellery as presents to her friends, and that it was more a case of extravagance than anything else. She was very sorry for what she had done. When the Sheriff announced that Bhe I would be placed on probation for a year j the girl broke into a fit of hysterics and j collapsed into the arms of n youg man. who j carried her from the court. \ RAILWAY WAGON IN A BEDROOM. A King's Cross. 1-ondon. fish van special train bound for York, owing to engine trouble, hnd been running behind time, and at Ileck Station, near Selby (Yorkshire), I was stopped that it might be diverted on J to another line. ■ The fish train appears to have been Bent lon to a '•dead-end'" track, with the result • that the train crashed into a loaded coal I wagon. J The force of the impact snat the wagon j clean through the dead end. across the j stationinaster's garden, where, its speed still j unabated, it rnn right through the wall of I the house and into the bedn.om. the guard's J van knocking out the gable end ot the j The PtßlionniQster and his clerk, who •were in the office immerliat<-lv under the j bedroom, had a narrow escape.

Having made his escape from the infirmary at Isleworth. a pneumonia patient was seen running about tbe streets attired only in his night shirt. He was apprehended and taken buck to the institution. The possibility of making smokeless fuel by the low-tcmporat urc carbonisation of sated in a preliminary manner in the Government Research Station at East Greenwich. REJECTED BY THE AIR FORCE. After his failure to enlist in the Air Force. Howard IS. motor mechiin.o, became despondent, and his body was found, hands and feet tied with rope, in the Birmingham Canal at Lichfield. EARLY RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY. Boris A. Eakhmeteff. former Russian Ambassador, said Kussia probably wouW have a modern Democratic Government in two generations. He said the period nf destruction was passed. The Red army he added, would not make war any more. BIRD-CARRIED DISEASE. In connection with the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Bedfordshire ami Hampshire, the Ministry of Agriculture hns grounds for thinking that the disease is being carried within the infected areas b» ■ the agency of birds, euch as rooks, wood ! pigeons and herons. BEST EDUCATED BOY. "The whole boy is one who can be as keen on art as on science j as keen on cricket and football aa on his studies. Such a boy will come out in the world and be a personality. The peculiarity of British development is mental alertness. Of ail things a wide education promotes that characteristic."—Professor Sir Herbert Jackson, in opening the new science buildings at King's School, Canterbury, _ 4 MASCULINE ELEGANCE. "I have been nnable to find a single portrait iv the combined salons of a man truly representative of French masculine elegance," deplores Andre Defouquieres, the lecturer. M. Defouquiere9 says artists seem madly attracted towards men whose clothes are tadly cut, with the coat collar either too high or too low. He admits that the modern male costume, outside of those for war and sports, cannot inspire artists, many of whom are glad, therefore, to resort to models wearing the open Byronic collar. •He asks that future salons show some I counterpart to the feminine elegance they now display, CHILD' HEART STOLEN. A native witch doctor case was investigated at Middleburg, near Johannesburg, j when a witch doctor and his favourite wife Iwere charged with murdering a native boy, aged two. Evidence was griven that the male prisoner carried the boy ol to his kraal (hut), * and kept him there for some weeks. Subsepjieetly, it was said, when the child's l<J<y was discovered out in tlie Veld it %m found that his heart had been removed. Witch ioctors, it was stated, greatly prize the human heart, which they use to make their medicine. The accused were both committed for trial. KTT-T.Tm WV FLIES ? The mysterious illness of five young children named Liint, three of whom died subsequently, was reported to the Liverpool coroner. Their mother, Catherine Loitt, Bald the only explanation of the illness She could suggest was that a stable near the house was full of flies. It is stated that another boy is Iylnj; very 111 in the infirmary. The sickness In ail cases began with sudden vomiting and diarrhoea. The children died within four days of each other. One victim was a baby of five months. The rest of the family, including the parents, who had the same food as two Of the children who died, wore not affected. The coroner has ordered a bacteriological examination. « GET OTJT OF THE WAY !" Major Thomas Stewart Inplis, of East Grinstead, was sentenced to 21 days in the second division at Steyning, Sussex, on a charge of wilful damage. A one-leggod roadman had been told to stop motor-cars using a private road to Shoreham while a bridge was being reconstructed. Inglis was alleged to have shouted to the man, "Get out of my way, I am going through." The roadman's crutch -was knocked out of his hand, and he fell on to the mudguard. Then, it is said. Inslls exclaimed. 'That will teach you not to stop people." Hβ drove off, but returned later (and offered the man 10/ for a new crutch. AFRICAN WITCHCRAFT. I The efforts to stamp out withcraft in 1 Tan**anvika territory by mating witchcraft a punishable offence are mentioned in a medicine man, states the report, may be citic which prevails among the Wapare in Moshi district. Children born with some abnormality or considered by the dlrlners to be unlucky for a great diversity of reasons. J such as the cutting of. the lower before the j upper teeth, are done to death by deliberaie starvation. When the elders of the. tribe 1 decided tendency to rceosmiso its evils and Ito adopt more enlightened id-.-is. but a few 1 j were against the abolition of tb* custom r.n . J the ground that the d.-struction of th* tribe i would certainly follow. WAITRESSES IN WHITE 1 TROUSERS. •lust when some conservative I'-rl:■: s who oppose modern tendencies In women hail found solace in tbe fact that riding astride was becoming unpopular anions the fair sex. comes tbe announcement that tl.e j waitresses in a well-known We-t l."n 1 ''restaurant were w.ir:n_- white rt'ii k ■trousers to make their 'Inly tn-ks ensi-r. iThi.s particular restaurant also has nn eye [to beauty in choosing its waitresses, n* f»tr j beauty churuses can beat thf-m iv [mint of 'looks. I B.:i the mid-Vlctoriane li.ire ntl.er erio? lances us to ib" way in which they rnarce Iwomen are going the pace. For instance •Mrs. George Duller recently won a motoring i.ontest after d"me more th;in sixty miles aa ;tiour. and later Mrs. O. S. Menkes won :i jother race at ninety-one milefl an hour. Tivo j noted women's crews ».>t the »H rowing ■hands to wondering becaufe ■•' tbc.r. ; prowess. While critic of the modern rni-'ish nri :pay that her strenuous life will ,■'« nt ■:.,:,y have r.n :ipj.allini; pfTWt r.n :!..■ I!riii!-!i 'race, her r-hamplons insist Miar her i>\;i<\ <r>r 'hfe is only natural, l-.i ■ i-•«■ -f her h.ml llfp dv:rin; the war. :in.! i= i.nnn'l !o liav a ■ beneficial effe.-i. cine slrl c ■:■,-.-:.1-1 say«: I "It is better to ='• the sportina p.T.c than t* ibe preserrcl a" a vcjeiabic.