NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 64, 15 March 1924, Page 19

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

An eel weighing SSI l>, 7ft in length and 2GIn in girth, was landed at Aberdeen. In one year weekly penny contribntions of Epsom (Ens.) workmen totalled iSM for Hie local hospital. Ordered by the Council to number their houses, tenants of some cottages at Molesey placed the numbers on the back doors. General Primo de Rivera, the Spanish Dictator, tolil a farmers' delegation that lie proposed to open a market for Spanish wheat in Kngland. Sergeant Drummer r>. W. Borsan, M.M., n.C.M.. Croix de Guerre, of Ulaenavon. Wales, Ftuuihled over the parapet of a bridge at Pontnewynydd (Mon.l, and fell 20 feet into the water. lie was killed by striking stones at the bottom. OLD lABYS ADVENTURE. An armed man attacked Miss Blake, need 70, the postmistress at Chesterfield sub. post office. He stunned her with a revolver. No money was missed. SPECTATOE'S DEATH. Mr. Samuel Smith (47), of Brlghtou. vraf seized with illness whilst watching the Brighton v. Blaukheath Rugby match at Drighton. and died In hospital. He was making notes of the same when taken ill. WOMEN AS CLERGY. Canon fl. E. Broughton. vicar of Hnjrlescote. Leicestershire, in a sermon, s.-.ld one of the Church's greatest needs was more clergy. There were not enough. The only solution he could see was to admit women to the Church. Women were in Parliament, and he saw no objection to women clergy. SIXTEEN YEARS' SECRET. After a lapse of 1-1 years, the mystery surrounding a boy's identity has been cleared up. When two yeare of age a blue-eyed baby was put in the charge of the Brighton Guardians by his foster-mother. Neither the father nor the mother was known. A letter recently received by the guardians revealed the Identity of the father, and the lad, now 16, knows for the firsttime in his life who he is. The bor has been restored to his father. FOR OWN OCCUPATION. The following dialogne took place at Willesden Police Court— The Applicant: I want possession of a cupboard with two shelves, for which my tenant is paying a rent of a shilling a week. Magistrate: Do you require it for your own occupation, as specified by the terms of the Kent Restriction Act? Landlord: Yes, I require it owinc to illness. Magistrate: Then take a summons for possession. THE QUILT AND GTTILT. A man charged at Middlesex with breaking into a police-sergeant's house aud stealing an eiderdown quilt, after pleading not guilty, save himself away in a manner lhat was not devoid of humour. After demanding the charge, lie asked: "Couldn't I have taken the qnilt without going into the room by just putting my arm through the window?" The Sergeant (with emphasis): No. The Man (with equal cmpha3ls): We". I j did. ; <: JAZZ." ! The British Museum has just issued a further eleven sets of historical postcards, representing objects in the national collection. One set illustrates Roman antiqnitiee, another Early British objects of Early Iron Age. Probably the most interesting set is that portraying mediaeval snorts and pastimes. Ancient cricket, hockey and pig-sticking are depicted, also a very original type of acrobatic dance, compared to "which the modern jazz is almost clerically sedate. lODINE FOR GOITRE. Dr. J. A. Goodfellow, formerly of Chesterfield and recently returned from the United S'.ate-S after many years" absence, says his impression is that cases of goitre, or in Derbyshire than when Ue was iv practice. He claims that by using iodine in the almost disappear. In Rochester, U.S.A., a town of 300 inhabitants, iodine is added to the water twice a year for three weeks at a time. Lecturing in London on Saturday, Professor Winifred Collis said experiments with lodine had been tried by the Swiss Government In one canton, and in twelve months the percentage of goitre casos had been reduced from SO to 13. AMERICAN " AMAZONS." "Some girls in every age drink liquor; a few even enjoy smoking; many throw away honour, but the world has never known sucli ar army o£ hard-drinking, cigarettepufßng, licentious Amazons as to-day." So Dr. Charles Smith, president of Eoanoke (Virginia) Colleee for Women, indicted modern girls at the opening of the Lutheran Educational Conference in New York (says the "Daily Sketch" correspondent). "Daughters of the so-called "best people.he declared, "come out attired scantily in clothing but abundantly in paint, with bottles in their handbags, dance as daringly as possible to appear popular, call Cor frequent intervals to give them an opportunity to quench their thirst, and ivith the I man of their choice engage in violent 'pet- , ting' parties in luxurious retreat of a hi" - j limousine." I — TRIAIi SCENE. *"* A poignant scene almost without precedent in a criminal court occurred at Alanchester Assizes at the trial, before Mr. j Justice Branson, of John Whalley R'J). j fitter, for cutting off tlie bands of his flvn- | year-old daughter and grievously wounding | with intent to murder his landlady, at Aecrlngton. There were cries of horror from tile Jury j as the story of'tho terrible criTOe against J Hie child was nnfolded, and tears filled t!ie "Vhiilley's wife hnd applied for a sppnra- '■ that prisoner committed this diabolical art In order to avenge himself upon her through the child. ■When the police arrived they found the ! •child kneeling on the rug resting on the I stumps of her arm?. Painful as this must j have been, said counsel, it must have pre- ! vented her from bleeding to death. I "The story is the most horrible to wliieli Branson; "a cool, calculated, and flotidisb attempt to be avenged upon your wife through an unfortunate little girl. "I am afraid no punishment I can inflict ■ is adequate, but you will go to penal ecrri- • tnde for 1"~ "

While visiting a patient at Wratt FarK Road, Streatham, Dr. Balrcl, V:ixion, suddenly expired. For a week in December the Eaplisi coal output was 5,55 C,OOO tons, whieb. "•Uα 5,95 C,OOO tons in the previous week, was a fortnight's record. A tenant at Marylebone County Court told Judge Scully tbat he paiii bis rent by putting it through the landlady's ietterboi. as he was afraid to meet her, tbelT relations being so strainvJ. While kneeling by her bedside apparently in prayer, Lizzie Martiia Gardner, a domestic servant, Balaam, dii'U from shock and syncope caused by her false teeth becomlßs flxeil in ier tarout. CELLO LIFEBELT. A party of musicians near Bishop's Xympton (Devon) lvero crossing the river in the darkness when the footbridge b.-oke, and they fell in the water. The 'cello [il.ijer was kept afloat by bis DOWNING STREET POLICE. J As a measure of economy, the l'ritne Mia- : ister has decided t(i dispense with Ihe ser- . vices of the four poll pn-.oii who have for three and a-half years done duty inside No. 10, Downing Street, i Their places have been taken by two exwarrant officers of the Brigade of Guar<lß employed "nder the Office of Works. BOY HANGED. , Shortly after being reproved by his , mother for a mischievous prank, Jolin Nicholson (12) was found hanging with a ; bedstead in his parents' home in Myni achdy, Cardiff. He was described as of a studious nature and was preparing for a secondary school scholarship. , SELLING A VILLAGE. A village of three-storeyed dwellings in ■ Cromford, near Matlock, Derbyshire, sold for f"0 a house at Matloct:. when many o£ • the villagers acquired their own houses. Inheriting the village (where Sir IJiehard • Arkwright built in 1770 what was then the largest cotton mill in England), Captain, • Kichard Arkwriyht decided to sell the lot, : but before the auction he pave every tenant the opportunity of acquiring his own house. BLOWN ACROSS CANAL. A hut was blown across the Manchester Ship canal, from Lancashire Into Cheshire— a distance of about 100 yards—by an explo- ■ sion of gelignite at the Pardingdon Steel and Iron Works, Irlam, near Manchester. The explosive was bein? prepared in the ' hut at the time, and the man who was ' lookius after it was temporarily absent. The explosion was heard for miles, and much damage was done to windows, BEER PURER THAN WATER. When the Socialist vicar of Toasted, Essex, the Eev. Conrad Noel, sent a sample of -water from the vicarage well to an analyst, the latter, after ciaminins the sample, replied : — •I should advise you to drink beer in future, and never touch the water." Mr. Noel, who said this well was probably the best in Thaxted, told the story nt a Ministry of Health inquiry into a proposed sewerage scheme for the district. It was strongly urged that the local water supplies were impure. . ' i A CLERGYMAN'S CURE. I Xear'iy all the "Red" leaders in Russia, I iliasnoscd by some medical professors who c-seaped, were of nn?onnd mind, most or them alcoholics and diseased, and many addicted to drug?, said Dean Inge in a lecture oa "Revolution.'" Russia would soon become a State ot peasantry governed by a military tyranny, which would call itself srnnetMn™ else. 'I think it is really an epidemic diseaseshe added, "a contagious moral insanity. "If. as I believe, this poison Is actually contagious, it i= justifiable to kill the inmore expensive and less safe way of imprisonment." ' LOST CENTIPEDE. Londoners arc becoming more and more absent-minded. Last year tlie number of articles left in taxicabs, trains, and omnibuses exceeded the number received at the Lost Property Office at Scotland Yard in Nearly 100,000 articles were deposited last year -with the Yard, the large majority being umbrellas, walking sticks, gloves, acd handbags. Queer finds included snakes in spirit, typewriters, an elephant gun, cameras, sewing machines, a monkey, anglers' and golfers' outfits, and a centipede. Tlie nvrage yearly values of lost articles is about £100,000. MASTER CRIMINAL AT 22. Described as "the master mind behind a series of frauds," Francis Leonard Aa)brii><". aged 22, was sentenced to 12 months' in tlie second division at the Old Bailey. The comment of Judge Athcrlcy Jones in Ambrose's career was: The iuteliectual ingenuity was of a vory remarkable cll.'ira'- ,- ter. One would only b.ive expected eiu-li a display of aeutcne" from a niau of. a much larger and wider oxpciience. Using various addresses in tl:c City and the name of a company had been wound up, Ambrose and another young m:.a ordered large quantities Of pood*. The business came to an end vriia asse'*3 nil aud debts of nearly £0000. Ambrose bolted with £71". which he had j drawn irom the hank, and tc.".h first to ! the Continent rind then to r.mada. i He had employed vis 10-year-old wife :is i n typlirt, but she had l-ft biui. TOO OLD AT 4O ? at any younger age is child's play." This j pronouncement has been made hy many J prominent physicians at a H-alth Snow it i BOMOI), r.S.A. j As both men and women, t!:<r claim, lire lives which makp for pro-p>'nility, physicians have laid down rules fur liv'ns i which will assure "youth"' for t!ic next j generation up to the age ot slsty-l'.ve. Provided tills generation follows tli-j rul'-, J they predict tbnt thirty years from nuiv Uie bost football players of the day tv:;i be forty years old. Baseball "stars' , will be tirty. The list of rules include :: So housekeeping ofr women ; plenty w oil Til.x c exercise, constant consultation of mothers with doctors ho that all iutont illuv.--.-a can be remedied quickly, p!,-niy ■■•; r- ~l between exercise period.., and u'tt< r rvlaxution during the rest hours. "The youth or to-fiuy will never know the genuine love and romance of ;'on--." one of the doctors stan-j. "They M.rr*>u weary and physically defective tuut tnere's no energy or enthusiasm left to enjoy this rich experience. There is no reas,,J why we can't i.rodij.:.j a new race of men and women who will be as youthful a- forty as the S irl of to-diij- is at tncilL*."