NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 170, 19 July 1924, Page 19

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

A bullock killed at Spaldins, Lincolnshire, had In Its stomach a lead washer, some 3 Iron nails, a lead pencil, and a much-chewed ■? bronze medal. In order to enable herring fishermen to t purchase drift-nets, the Fishery Board of c Scotland have Issued a supplementary estl- j mate for £150,000. A French fisherman of Bernerie, on the c Loire landed a huge sturgeon, welshing 1; 20st 51b, and measuring Oft 2in in length, j He hired a cart to take it home. 1 i The record price of £16S0 was paid for a Chippendale mahogany -writing table, at the sale at Cambridge of the property of the s late Sir James Dewar, the scientist. I Mile. Bolland, the noted Frenchwoman j aviator, at Orly looped the loop 212 times t in one hour eighteen minutes —a rate of j nearly two and one-third loops a minute. This is a record for a woman. The oldest .inhabitant of West "Wales, Miss Peggy Kaydderch, of Abergorlegh, ( Carmarthenshire, has died at the age of 102. She was in good health until she fell, ontside her house, and fractured her collar- f bone. ( George Wright, while removing rubbish J from the village dump at Mumby. near Alford, Lines., found a rusted copper tin 1 which held eighty-two sovereigns and six , half-sovereigns. It is thought the coins j, ■were inadvertently thrown away in war , Lime. Proposing a resolution calling upon the Government to prevent British ships from . smuggling liquor into the United States, • Miss Slack stated at the annual council ( meeting of the Women's National Liberal Federation that she bad been offered a bonus of 20 per cent on capital put into too traffic. BURIAL IN YOUR GARDEN. Canon Rhodes, vicar of Newbiggin, Northumberland, is offering to bury dead parishioners in their own gardens. His action baa been prompted by the shortage of graveyard space. The trouble is said to be due to the uncompromising attitude of local freeholders. DEAD WATCHMAN NEAR HUT. Driving home at night, a Bradford motorist swerved to avoid a dog which ran across the road. The car struck and wrecked a watchman's hut near the scene of some impairs to the tramway track. Later, the watchman, James Bowbotham, aged d, was found lying dead. VICAR DEAD IN RIVER. The body of Rev. Godfrey Bernard Blake, vicar of Irthington, Cumberland, was found In the River Irthing near Ruleholme. His hat and stick were found on the river bank near the spot where the body was discovered. In his younger days Mr. Blake was a good Eugby forward, and represented Cumberland on Eevcral occasions. He was 62 years old. KILLED IN IGNORING MOTHER'S CALL. Disregarding her mother's warning call from a bedroom window, Alwyn Thomas, aged six, of Wyke Regis, near Wej-mouth, ran in front of a motor car and was killed. The child had bc*sn picking buttercups in a hedge opposite the house. Lieutenant BrereJnn Hooper, of H.M.s. Maidetone, the driver of the car, bad served to avoid a cyclist coming out of a branch road. MARBLE MADE IN EIGHT HOURS. A synthetic production of marble suggests that the origin of all marble may be aqueous and not Igneous. Heated to 300 degrees C. under a pressure of twenty-four atmospheres, a mixture of solid calcium chloride and hydrated sodium carbonate, or a paste of precipitated chalk and sodium Chloride solution, in eight hours j-Jelded a compact mass of marble capable of taking a high polish. Using sodium sulphate with calcium chloride In the same way a compact mass of alabaster was produced. FLTTCKY REVUE GIRLS. During the first performance of a revue, "The Globe Trot." at the Edmonton Empire, a piece of scenery lell on the heads of two of the principal girls. Miss Brajman and Miss Chesney, and knocked, them down on the etaffe. Both were unconscious when plcked rap. They were carried to the dressing-room, and a doctor, after treating them, ordeei"a« that they should return home. But they refused to go, and both resumed their parts at the eocond hous*b. The public were unaware of what nae happened. Although working under great difficulty, their heads being bandaged, the girls scored successes. Hiss Chesney being recalled in one of her songs. YOUNG GIRL PREACHER. I Miss Emily G. Bishop, daughter of a Chatham joiner, has been ordained a lay preacher in the Primitive Methodist Church. Miss Bishop, who is 20 years of age, if a fluent speaker. She has been brought -ur from childhood in the service of the Church. "I have learned to love the sanctuary as I love niv own homo,*' she says. "Oi»e day," she added, "onr minlstei nsked mc to prepare myself for ordination. I was never more surprised In my life." Besides her work as a prea.-her in the circuit and a Sunday srhnol fcacher, Mis: Bishop Is a member of tne choir at Chat ham Primitive Methodist Church. She alsc asslst3 In the work of the church at TToulrt ham, visiting on behaif ot the minister conducting a women's meeting and a call drpn's service. She is engaged to the Rev. Eric B. Bntler of Hereford.

The Rev. Bees Jones, rector of Lliindrinio, Montgomeryshire, died of heart failure while writing a sermon in bed. Miss Lily Spencer died at Nuneaton on the day of the funeral of Mrs. Train, -whose companion she had been for twenty-two years, and was buried in the same grave. " I ■will not allow huge sums for funeral expenses to widows of workmen who are killed," declared the Mansfield County Court judge. One widow asked for over £40 of ber compensation, spent on burring her husband. A market crowd witnessed a dramatic suicide at Boston (Llnc3.>, when Eoberr Healey (60), a widower, divested himself Df his coat and waistcoat, mounted the parapet of the Town Bridge, and threw tlimself Into the River Withain, 30 feet below. . Cardsharpers travelling in the great >cean liners full of passengers bound for :he Wembley Exhibition fleeced unsuspectng travellers of more than £20,000 in a fewlays. A bronze axe head five Inches long, found )y a ploughman in a field at llorwood [Devon), has been identified by British Vlnseum authorities as a Celtic implement if about 1200 B.C. The body of Georges Rossett, aged 34, s-ho was buried in a Swiss avalanche five nonths ago, has been found near Zurich perfectly preserved in a block of ice together vith the body of his favourite dog. POINT DUTY MAN RUN OVER. While on point duty at Mattock, Bath, Derbyshire, Police-constable- Arthur NfclM vas knocked down and run over by a motor •ar. He was taken unconscious to hospital, md is suffering from concussion. RAT SHOOTING FATALITY. Well known in hunting circles, Mr. John Ernest Cooke, a former Master of the Norvich Stag Hounds, met with a fatal accllent while shooting rats at his residence, Jrooke Lodge, near Norwich. No one sawhe accident, but apparently Mr. Cooke bad )een standing on a pail in order to look >ver a 6ft -wall when it occurred. GIRL SHOT IN TREE. Returning from a shooting expedition, Fohn Connor, an Athlone mill worker, saw 'atherine Devaney, aged 17, and two other nill girls in the branches of a tree. Jokingly pointing the gun at them, ho rdered the girls to come down. The weapon exploded, killing Devaney. nisadventure, exonerating Connor. CHARGE AGAINST A SOLICITOR. In charges of forgery and fraudulent conrerslon against Henry Percy Douglas, a s-ell-known solicitor, of Crook, at Bishop Auckland, the Official Receiver said the lecused had admitted in bankruptcy proceedings that of a deficiency of £23,000 iearly half was the money of sixty-four :lients which he had misappropriated. Hβ s-as committed for trial. PARTICLES IN THE EYE. A frequent occurrence in practically every -workshop is the lodging of particles of dirt or metal in the eyes of the workmen. The practice is to use a sharp stick or point of a pencil to extract these particles. A simple probe, which as not nearly so flangerous, and will work -with surprising results, without fear or possibility of injury to the eye, is quickly made, says Mr. G. A. Luers, In " Science and Invention," from a dorse hair, looped over the end of a match, md bound on. With this probe particles R-hich are sticking to the tissues can be lislodged without pain. FATHER'S TRAGIC DISCOVERY. A Putney bus driver named Clements. iving at Salvin Road, had a distressing jiperlence when on his -way home to [inner. At the junction of Salvin Road md Lower Richmond Road he saw a crowd ;athered round a motor car, and on being nformed that an accident had occurred, mshed his way through. He then found hat his two children, Irene, aged 5, and oan, aged 3, were under the car. The hild Joan had been killed instantly, and he father removed the other child to the 'utney Hospital, where it was fopnd that he -was not seriously injured. The chil[ren had gone out to buy some sweets, aud he accident occurred only a few yards rom their home, PUNISHMENT OF FEEBLE MINDED. " It Is estimated that one In every 200 of sur population comes within the category »f mentally defective, which means that we hare about 150,000 such persons to ittend to," said Mr. J. Wheatley, Minister Df Health, at a conference on mental deficiency held at the Central Hall Westminster. " I think," he added, " the whole subject of how far people are responsible for their actions should be gone into with even greater care than it is gone into now. " If a person is not gifted by God with the power of resisting evil-doing, it is a deep question whether we, who have teen gifted with that power, are entitled to punish that person In the light of our understanding." BARONET AND WTFE WRECKED Sir Basil and Lady Brooke had two exciting hours when their boat, swept down the flooded river at Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal, being caught by rocks Just above the famous Falls of Assaroe. They were fishing when the strong current carried the boat towards the rapids. Providentially it lodged against some rocks in mid-stream. Hopes were thrown to secure it, and men dashed off to close the sluice gates at Belleck, higher np the river. Realising her danger, Lady Brooke calmly removed her shoes and heavier clothing to make a fight for life, should the worst come to the worst. Presently, after fte sluice gates had been closed, the waters abated, and at the end of two hours it became possible to rescue Sir Basil and Lady Brooke. MEN COOKED AND EATEN. Sir Jehanjir Kothari, the famous Indian traveller, -who has visited the Cannibal Islands, including Solomon . elands, New Guinea, and the New Hebrides, during a tour of the world, tells an int- resting story of his adventures. Cannibalism is still practised constantly among them. He himself attended the trial of the head men of a. tribe in the hills ot New Guinea for cannibalism. Six men from the lowlands had been captured by the cannibals, and one by one killed, coofced and eaten. Their bones, picked of flesh, were found round the tribal tree. The body of the victim is him; in a tree and consumed as needed, a leg or arm brine chopped off fnr the lirst meal. It is cooked in a bamboo cooker betore a slow fire with herbs for seasonlnc. Nine men of the tribe were shot as a warning to the others to desist from such revels in future.