NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 76, 29 March 1924, Page 19

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Two chiropodists have b.ien engaged by the Fulbam guardians to atten-i the inflrmUi\7 patients.

A 12-year-old boy named Trair, of Plymouth, stepped on to a nail, which caused a small wound in his heei. He died.

Captain George E. G. F. Pigott, late Scots Greys, of Bayswater, W., who left £40,314, directed: "I do not wish any motor hearse to be used at my funeral."

A Brighton woman has ordered a funeral for her dog, which was buried In an oak coffin with brass fittings bearing the Inscription, "In loving memory of my faithful friend, Belle."

A Japanese living near Mildura (Victoria) has succeeded in growing wonderful samples of rice, which point to the possibility o£ Australia becoming a great rice-growing country.

Sergeant Richard Gaffney, the last of the Royal Scots Fusiliers' Crimean veterans, who died at Ayr In his ninety-third year, took part in an aeroplane flight when nearly 00 years of age.

Found dead, still hanging on to a track brake ofter a railway collision at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, Albert Barnes, aged 3f>, "was etated that the inquest to hove sacrificed his life to prevent a more serious smash.

Foreign wnitprs arc entering England In large numbers by evading the Home Office regulations. These men, realising they will not be allowed entry into this country ai> "job-scf-kers," describe themselves as "students." A HARDY GIRL. Whilst cleaning a second-tstorcy nludow at Palmers Green, Rose Diion, a domestir, slipped and fell to the sroond, a distance Of 30ft.

It was found, however, that her injuries consisted only of severe bruises on the bacK and hip. NEVER A PENNY OUT. Retiring after 54 yoars' service, Mr. jotn luckhurst. Sittingbourne, ogent of the Kent brewing flrm of Shepherd Neame, Ltd., can boast that he has handled a quarter of a million sterling, and has never been a penny

Mr. Luckhurst, who is 80, holds the record for long service with the firm, which has been in existence for 220 years. LION MAULS A TAMER. Hundreds of terrified women and children attending Marcel's circus in Paris saw a who had entered its cage to put the animal throngb its tricks.

Assistants forced the lion away from the Renseless trainer with red hot Iron bara always kept heated for emergencies.

The professor was clawed and his clothes were torn to ribbons, lie was taken to hospital in a critical condition. ALL NIGHT CAFES IN WEST END Some of the West End restaurants, the "Dally Chronicle" understands, are considering the question of remaining open ali nisht.

The new Criterion restanrant in Pieeartilly Circus lias aeelded to beep ita cafelirasserie open throughout the night, and although the experiment has been in operation ouly a few days, it has proved highly popular. Other restaurants are taking a similar course. DIRECTOR DRUNK IN CAR. Described as a managing-director, of Selwyn Eoad, Walton-onThames, Richard Weber (32), was sentenced to a month's imprisonment in the second division by the Greenwich magistrate for being drunk while driving a car. In addition, he was fined £10 for dangerous driving, with £5 n/ costs, and his license was suspended for six months.

Weber ran into a cart on Belmont Hill, I,ewishaui, was chased and overtaken l>y a constable. SPLITTING THE OFFERING. In Northern Madagascar the chnrohes have an amusing way of taking np the collection. Often a bat is used, in some cases old enough to let the collection drip through on to the worshippers' laps. The sexes sit on opposite sides of the builrtlug. and when a husband has no equivalent for a halfpenny—the standard contribution— he takes change for hie ten centimes piece from the hat, ond hands this change to the steward, who gravely takes it across the drop in the hat. FARTHING PHONE CALLS. Guernsey has one telephone to every 12 inhabitants—a record for the British Empire. London has one to 13. Cardiff one to 22, and Hull one to 23 of the population.

Guernsey telephones are State owned, and calls are only one penny, with an annual rental of £2 10/. A tariff of £6 10/ allows 3200 free calls, and later calls at four a penny.

Subscribers can listen In to chnrch services. Overseas calls to Sark, eight miles away, coet threepence.

The Guernsey States Telephone Department pays.

BABY HANGED.

During an inquest at Hull recently on Patricia Graham, a ten-months-old baby, who was found hanging from the foot of the bed, the father, James Graham, said the child was Just learning to walk.

He thought she must hare crawled to the bottom of the bed with the Intention of going to lie near her sister, who was asleep at the foot of the bed. In walking nlong by the iron work she had overbalanced, her nightdress had caught on the bedpost, and the tape in the top had held her by the neck. A verdict of accidental death was returned.

Baths provided for workmen at Kensington refuse destructor, it is reported, are rarely used.

"I sleep with a bath on the bed to catch the rain water in wet weather, and when I complain to the landlord he says, 'Lucky to have a roof,'" said a lodger in the Bow Coonty Court

Jlr. W. Williams, of Burgess Hill, after missing a train for London, said : "I shall go home and have some toast." Then he fell dead on the platform.

Arthur E. Titheridge, at Middlesex Sessions, was sent .to prison for 18 months for breaking into a house at Southgate and stealing two loaves. He left behind a notebook containing his name and address, and so brought about his arrest.

With a thousand deatns in England alone every year due to people being run over through their stepping In front of vehicles ■which overtake them, it is difficult to exaggerate the importance of having onf and the same rule for the road and the footpath. MARKSMEN GUARDING PAY ROLLS. Special bandit-chasing police automobiles, manned by expert marksmen, were put into service to guard clerks carrying the wages for the five largest business concerns in Philadelphia. FAMILY ASLEEP OVER BURNING ROOM. But for an alarm of flre given by a passIng cyclist, a Nottingham family named Jarvis might have been trapped by an outbreak on the ground floor of their bouse in the early hours of Sunday.

The eylist summoned the fire brigade, which found the drawins-room well ablaze. The family were asleep upstairs, ignorant of their danger, and had to be arouseil. Serious damage was done to the room. TREAD ON THE TAIL O> ME COAT Owen Connolly, 100 years old, but hale and vigorous, - walked nine miles to the Lasfcey (County Sligol Court to answer a charge of having nsed "abusive nr.il threatening language" to one ratrici Brady.

"He jumped over a fence and threatened mc with a blackthorn," declared Brady.

The magistrate dismissed the case, savin; that Connolly was not likely to do anyone "grievous bodily harm."

£4,400,000 HOTEL.

A tnirty-two-storey hotel, costing £4,400.----000. is to replace the Congress of Chicago, one of America's best known hotels.

The hotel will be the largest in the world, will contain 3000 rooms, and will be constructed in units.

The first unit, costing f1,000,0n0, will be known aa the "bachelors' " hotel and will hare 800 rooms, a gymnasium, tank. Turkish ana Russian baths, running track. equash courts, billiard room and grill.

A banquet and convention hall, seating 9 000 persons, will be the main feature of the second unit, also to cost £1,000,000. It will contain 700 rooms.

VICAR ROCKS A CRADLE A local custom, dating fro:u the :

1200 was revived at Blidwortb, near Mud*field, when the Rev. John Lou-ndes, t.'io bachelor vicar, rocked two babies, the latest baptised boy children in the village, in an old wooden cradle.

Candlemas flowers, ivy, and lighted candles adorned tfle cradle, where the babies were placed after presentation and dedication at the altar. The vicar rockett the cradle to and fro before returning the Infants to their mothers. The ceremony symbolises the presentation of the child Jesus in the Temple. PORTUGUESE ADVENTURESS. ■Widow of a Portnguese connt who was shot as a Royalist at Lisbon in 1321, Estelle Hood appeared at Jlarylebone Police Court charged with theft.

Giving her age as 27, she was sentenced to txro months' imprisonment.

A story of three marriages ia seven rears was told by Police-Senjeant Bnshneli. After serving eentences of imprisonment. Hood, he 6ald, took to a life of gaiety In the West End. In 1017 she married a wealthy Dutchman, but he died soon afterwards. 'Hood then met Count Gil do Bonrja. anl married him in romantic circumstances in Portugal.

After the Count nad. been snot she married an unemployed theatrical agent of 2f>. SILK BAT BEGGAR. A man who had begged at his son's wedelixir "WH.S sentenced to six 'weeks' Lvi rfi labour and recommended for deportation at Thames Police Court.

Before the court on a begging charge was an elderly Pole, whose name was stated to be Alter Turkits.

An aliens inquiry officer said that he hn'l been convicted previously for siniilT offences. On the first occasion £—13 wjis found upon him, and on the second £l::0. The fines -were £10 and £25 respective!:". Witness added:—When his eon was nnrried he came out of the synagogue during the ceremony dressed in good clothes and i silk hat, and, hurrying home, changed intu poor clothing. He returned to Iho syn.ngogue and begged from the people as they left the building. MAGISTRATE CHARGED IN OWN COURT. Acting on instructions received from mc Inspector of Tases for Wrexham, mc Merionethshire police arrested V.r. Roln-rE James Jones, J.P., of Pretavera, Corwcu. nni brought him before the Corwi-n Justices at a private sitting charged iviin making false income tax returns, lie whs remanded op bail.

Just before he was charged he had boea acting as a magistrate at the same police court.

lie was chairman of the Convcn Board of Guardians and was presented to tfle Prince of Wales on his recent visit.

Mr. Jones was also a general commissioner of income tax, and in this capacity had to decide appeals against assessments.

DOKSETS' HOME-COMING. With 500 men of the 2nd Dorset Regiment on board, the transport Derbyshire reached Southampton recently.

Aβ the ship drew alongside the hand struck np "Rollins Home to Dear Old Kngland," and waiting relatives on the <;\i:iy waved to their home-coming husbands, s-ons and brothers.

Many touching reunions took i-Uice as the soldiers disembarked.

The regiment has seen much ir<!o is foreign service, having left England \n October, 1906, and sflmp of the troops have not been home for 17 years.

Part of their service was in Mesopotamia dnring the war, and they were at Kat when General Townshend surrendered.

The Maror (Aldermau Mouluiid) and the members of the corporation gave a civic welcome to the troops, who afterward entrained for Aldershot.