NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 22, 26 January 1924, Page 19

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Sixteen million pamphlets were sent out from Labour headquarters before the British elections. A woman told tbe Bow County Court that as her husband had now been "awarded tbe Income-tax" he could not pay the debt fot I which he was sued. A New Tork jury has decided that a golfer who Is hit by a ball driven by a player following him may not be awarded damages, it being his own lookout 1" he gets hit. A landlord who asked at Wlllesden for an ejectment order against his tenant said that six people were living and sleeping in one room, and for a whole week the body of a child was lying in the same room. Arrested at Kingston (Surrey) for drunkenness, a man arrived at the police station wrapped in the constable's cape. | "1 hope in time to teach people man-! ncrs," said .ludge Sir Thomas Granger, at Woolwich County Court, In fining Cyril I Ford .",/ for putting his hat on before leaving the court. Three lives were lost as a result of ieo giving way on a frozen pond at Dudley. Among the victims was a sailor who weut to the rescue of six schoolboys who had been precipitated Into the water. Mrs. Ilarner. wife of the Ristaop of Rochester, has in her service an old nurse, aged 9_, who has been the faithful servant of the family for 73 years. A postcard posted at Hunstanton In August. 1002, has been delivered at Luton. At the Inquest on Andrew Sullivan, a hunger-striker, who after removal from Mount, oy Prison, Dublin, died In a military hospital, a doctor stated that Sullivan went on hunger-strike on October 14, and about n week ago he lost his sight. The Jury found that death was due to pneumonia. LOBSTER STRANGLES A RAT. A full-grown rat seeking booty in tbe Paris Central Markets imprudently crawled over a basket of lobsters. One of the lobsters seized it by the neck and strangled the rat hctween Its claws. £240000 IN A WHALE. In a sperm whale caught near Durban, it is reported, a large quantity of ambergris, worth £14 or £15 an ounce, has been found. It is rumoured that the find weighs over 1000 pounds; In that case it will probably be valued at £24.000. Samples of the ambergris have been sent to London (says the "Cape Argus") to have It tested. HIGHER PAY FOR CLERGY. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners have decided to undertake, as soon as possible, tbe augmentation of all benefices which are or may become in private patronage as follows, the population figure being taken from the 1921 census returns:— £400 if population is 4,000 or more. _SSO 1000 £300 „ „ „ 3CO "HARNESS FULL OF BUGS." "Harness full of bugs for a bachelor horse." This is how a Spanish translator rendered "single-horse buggy harness" for an American exporter's advertisement. The Department of Commerce cite this as an Illustration of the way in which faulty j translations of circulars and advertisements frequently make a company ridiculous in I the eyes of prospective purchasers. DOLL CAUSES CHILD'S DEATH. A verdict of "Accidental death" was recorded at an inquest at Retford recently ou Winifred Uutchins. aged two, who died from burns. It was stated that the child was left in front of the tire dressing a celluloid doll. Her mother ijeard screams, and when she ran into the room she found the child In flames with the doll clasped In her arms. OPEN AIR LIFE AT 123. At tho age k>{ 123, Italy's oldest woman, Vittoria Laragnini, has died near Siena. She left no children, and her last relative, a brother, dif'd 40 years ago. Vittoria was strong and healthy until a few days before her death from pneumonia. For the past 30 years she has lived In tbe country and reared chickens. To her love of the open air she attributed her longevity. Her husband died after flfty years' married life. THREE BROTHERS IN DUELS. Three duels took place in three different villas outside Naples recently, but no one was killed, or even seriously injured. The duels were the sequel to a letter criticising the editorial staff of a Neapolitan newspaper, which appeared in another journal. Challenges were sent to the writer o£ the letter and to two other journalists by the editor who had been criticised and by two of his brothers. Honour having been satisiied. the six duellists were reconciled. SCIENCE OF FIRE.MAKING. A famous Leeds surgeon has died in the person of Mr. T. Fridgin Teale, in bis ninety-third year. Known as "The Nestor ot Leeds Univer- , sity," Sir Michael Sadler said of him that "part of his greatness of miud lies in his power of sympathy with new studies and new outlooks." Mr. Teale made valuable researches into scientific heating. All modern fire grates, it is said, are in some measure the outeomo of his researches. Chiefly famed as au ophthalmic surgeon, he was described in his prime by contemporaries as an operator of transcendent skill. TRAPPED BY A DOG. Shortly after midnight. Miss Ilaigh. o£ (llandwr Mill, three miles from Barmouth, was awakened by the barking of her hound and ix loud bombardment of the front door. She was alone in the house. Going out lo inspect the hound's kennel in the stable. Miss Halgli was startled to see a powerfully-built man in the far corner, with her hound guarding him. Miss Haigl, called out the hound, locked the intruder inside and Informed the police, who arrested the man at. _ a.m. Later in the morning Patrick Malloy (ihe intruder) was sentenced to Ihree months' hard labour for being drunk and disorderly. A half-consumed bottle of methylated spirit was found iv his possession. LAST OF THE RACE. five humir.-.l specimens of mammals. birds, insects and shell.- have arrived at the Natural History Museum fr..m the Australian expedition under Captain George H. Wilkins. They were collected ."'0 nitle. Inland ln Southern Queensland. "Our present collection of Au. tinlinn aulinals is not a good one. but when the work of the expedition is finished we shall have one of the besr in the world." said Mr. Regan, keeper of zoology. "We believe." lie added, "this is our last chance to get creatures which ere threatened with extinction —another g^ner- 1 . tion may be too late."

Felix Gangl, the fourteen-year-old son of > ft high government official at Bnda Test committed suicide. Stock exchange speculation was the cause. Stated to be the cleverest pickpocket in (the West End. William Davis (3G), was at the London Sessions sentenced to nine months' Imprisonment for stealing a watch and chain. I Dr. Marcel Hi. hard, a young dentist, of Anneiy, was extracting a tooth from a woman pal lent recently. Suddenly he dropped hi. instrument and fell dead from I heart failure at his client's feet. , Founder's Day was celebrated at Eton , College recently, when the first of the four war memorial tapestries from the William Morris looms at Merton was placed . in the Lower Chapel. Edison's original phonograph and a .plaster east of an early Korean rain-gauge .(are among the exhibits in the gallery. I I which has now been opened to the public, iof the new Science Museum building at South Kensington. A Moscow message received in Paris ! states that Professor SchlotTer of Prague. has been called to trepan Lenin's skull : It ' Is reported from Copenhagen that the need for Ihe operation arises from tbe presence ot a tumour on the brain. During (he past few weeks many hunt dreds of reindeer have been killed by trains tunning on the railway traversing the north . of Sweden, in the district of the boundaries of Finland. Sweden and Norway. Hardly a day has passed without reports having come in of ten or a dozen animals having been found dead on the lines. HER DEAR DOG. When a wonia.i was summoned at Tot- [ tenham for allowing a ferocious dog to be at largo she described it as "a most inoffensive dear," " the dearest dog possiK-." and " 6uch a dear that the children could do as they pleased with it." ' When a policeman said that the dog • attacked him, .the woman turned to the animal and said, " Did you, dear?" but the dog only barked. BOW ENGLISH. Asked in the Bow County Court if it was not true that the defendant had made an offer to pay a debt, the plaintiff replied. " Yes, a three-er a month." Counsel: Three what ? Haintiff: Three nicker. What are they?— Three quids. (Laughter.) Will you tell mc what quids are?—-Not quids of tobacco—quids—jimmy o' goblins. (Laughter.) You don't understand Bow, £3 a month. "DON'T BRING A LIGHT." " Oood-bye and good luck.—Mother." " P.S.—For God's sake don't come up with a light.'' These were the concluding sentences of a note addressed to her family by Ann Potter, a Middlesborougb. woman, whose 'husband returned from a political meeting to find her lying dead in a gas-filled bedroom. A verdict of suicide while of unsound r mind was recorded. t BURIED WITH PET PARROT. After having rested in a mausoleum in s Spring Grove Cemetery for almost a year. . the body of Mrs. Viola Dillingham was s buried in a lot there. A feature of the 1 burial was that a pet parrot which she had for fifteen years was buried beside her mistress. Mrs. Dlllinghams coffin cost 2000 dollars, having been made of silver and copper and | was especially ordered by her mother. Mrs. ( Dillingham was the wife of the late Frank ' Dillingham, who amassed a fortune in the patent medicine business in Cincinnati. She attracted public attention by successfully resisting his suit for divorce some years ! ago. MAN'S ABNORMAL SKULL. A verdict of accidental deatli was recorded by Mr. Ingleby Oddle at a Westminster inquest ou Benjamin Townseud, 29. a _,ealtolder. who was killed while working on the Savoy llotcl extension. Strand. He was fixing the last piece of felt on the roof of a messrooni, CO feet above tha ground, when he overbalanced and fell. Dr. Gordon Roberts, of Charing Cross Hospital, said that the man was dead ■ on admission. Owing to its abnormal thickness, the skull was not fractured, death being due to broken ribs and an injury to the lungs. FAITH WITHOUT WORKS. A man and wife, members of the Peculiar , People Sect, were at West Ham remanded _ on bail on a charge of being concerned in , the manslaughter of their son, Norman (31, by neglecting to provide medical aid lor him. j They were Henry Norman Purkiss (3S>, a platelayers labourer, and his wife. A detective said an inquest jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the •_.•- ---: cused, and he arrested them on the coroner's warrant. The child died from laryngeal diphtheria. It was stated at the inquest that accused. . when the child fell ill. called in elders of 3 their faith, who anointed and laid bauds upon the child. t SNUFF MILL CLOSES. , The old snuff mill at Juniper Green, near I Edinburgh, which has been working tor over two centuries, has ceased operations— o evidence of the steady decline of the snuiT i, habit. n Almost anr London tobacconist hi a factory district will tell you that the i, demand for snuff or tbe cheaper sorts ii i- as large now ns it ever was in modern t days. In many factories smoking is strictly I prohibited, and a large quautity of snuiT is consumed. Iv the old days Cm "Mull." a 0!ro:-----it mounted ram's head, wilh a lar.e receptacle i. for "rapee." was tn be found In t!:e bar of (1 nearly every Scottish inn and of many t>r -- those further south. It is an odd thing that m.tnr women II who take snuff regularly wov.M .corn U< 0 be seen smoking a cigarette. | 'WOMEN'S TATTOO CRAZE. ' . lias spread, and artists arc doing very zoo.! J business. , Strangely enough, though only a few ' want their amis "decorated." quite a nuni ' her bare their legs for designs tn be shown ' through silk stocking. Butterfly and flower patterns are mostly requested, but as a rule they are nut.v , small ornamentations. The shoulder or 1 a.-, s " of the neck is sometimes laid i.ar.- lor the c i opet.ition, but these cases are rare. J i "Three horses' beads, a rosella parrot. 'a stag, and a bnnch of pansies; ami pkn-e Jdo not hurt." Such was the request of i lady recently, who called nt a tattoo urtN:. 1 and in many case< the wants of the la.i;— |. i are similar. ~ \ A number of Ihe artl. t«* clients arrive in . I motor ears, ami offer more than Urn rs-.-ti fee 'for something mom pretty ;_.>n .."in i-' did for Mrs. So-and-so." c • Others call to see the ileshns. a-k if th? . operation hurts mii'-li, and retnru in _ few • lays to te tattooed.