NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 188, 9 August 1924, Page 19

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Six brick and stone-built houses to Chippcnham Gate Street, Monmonth, -were 5 Bold In one lot for £212 10/ at an auction * sale at Monmouth. The first bid was £100. i 1 Collapsing suddenly on the footplate while ' passing Darnall, W. Lelghton, driver of an. ; express from London, was d"ad when the 5 train reached Sheffield in charge of the * fireman. . i 1 ' William Phipps (16), employed in the laundry at the Southern Railway Works at Ashford, Kent, fell Into n tank of boiling caustic soda. He was severely scalded and | died in hospital. , " I Mr. Walter Ball.ird, of Drentwoocl, re- | ■ turned home from holiday to find that he j j had won the Stock Exchange clerks' Derby j sweepstake, having drawn Sansovino. The prize was £3150. » I , - I A woman applied for a. summonn against ilier husband for assault nt .Tarrow. saying , he had pulled her out of bed 20 times. married life." Application refused. j W. T. Ross, a real estate agent, who J committed suicide in Los Angeles by taking poison, left a note stating that he had i killed himself to determine whether or not , death is a transition into another life. Shortly after his wife had given birth to r a child, Peter Wood, a Glasgow man, struck ' ,her. She had to seek refuge In a neighbours house, while the nurse rescued the ' baby. Wood was sentenced to twelve months' hard labour. r WHERE'S PETE. "Has anyone seen Pete?' , s "Pete who?' , s "Petroleum." 1 "Kerosene liim yesterday and lie ain't c benzine since." j ______ c EVERYBODY HAPPY. Maid: No, ma'am, Mrs. Hughes Is out. c Visitor. How fortunate! When 1 saw r her peeping through the curtains as I came n up the path I was so afraid she would be c in. :5 2 REVOI-VINGLY SPEAKING. He: Remember when we first met In the revolving door at the post office? U She: But that wasn't the first time we met. lie: Well, that's when we started going around together, wasn't it? PICKING THEM. A commercial traveller visiting a Glasgow warehouse made a bet with the manager ;. that ho would pick out all the married men n among the employees. h. Accordingly he stationed himself at the r- door as they returned from dinner, and h mentioned all those whom he believed to be married. In almost every case lie was oi right. >f "How do TO" do it?" asked the manager. "Oh, it's quite simple," said the triveller. t- "The married men wipe their feet on the 3* mat; the single ones don't." PIT BOY HERO. d Tie story of a pit toy's courage and ? - fortitude was told at a Mansfield inquest a on John Luker, aged 17, employed at Sher,o I wood Colliery. Luker had charge of a train of eight full d coal tubs, no slipped in front of them, d and all the tubs passed over him, fracturing his right leg and thigh. !t Notwithstanding hla agony, he stopped d the endless rope, bringing the tubs to a s I standstill and 'preventing injury to others. 5 ' He died later from his injuries, c ______ '" A HUMAN BRUTE. IJobert Constable, a mechanic, of Kiiton c Street, Battersea, was fined £10 with £3 6/ | costs at >the South-Western iPollce Court j '" for brutal treatment of hid children. Some of the evidence given 'by the children was that ho a Lashed his 14-year-old eon to the table, 3 thrashed him with a belt, and rubbed salt on the wounds; Held his iiyear-old boy by the heels ana. swung him round the room, his head _ bumping on 'the floor; a Struck his eight-year-old jlrl, blacking both her eyes. It was stated that arrangeirtnts would be made to remoro (the children from Constable's care. c * DOG WORRIES A WOMAN. 0 Sarah Purkls Simmons (71), of Catarbatn, who died from lockjaw after being bitten t ( by a dog, was the subject of an inquest by the East Surrey coroner. y It was said that the woman was in her o garden, when a young bull terrier got o through the fence from an adjoining gar(l den and attacked her. il She fell down, and the dos then worried her left leg, biting it very badly. The n animal was driven off, and later killed. ;- A fortnight afterwards tetanus developed ;t with lockjaw, and caused the woman's n .death. The coroner said there was no evidence that the dog was vicious, and he could not find there was neglect on the part of the owner. A UNIQUE PROSECUTION. The police had what was described as a r " unique prosecution at Willesden, when they c'e' : summoned a council employee for causing m, an obstruction. The workman was an eleelC ■ trlcian who was engaged for some hours tn v " repairing a street lamp, for which purpose it was necessary for him to place a ladder tn on the pavement. l" s The man told the Court that he had been causing similar "obstructions" every day at for the past fifteen years. 1* Mr. E. A. Pratt, solicitor for the council, 3 pointed out that the public authorities were st privileged, and if the police brought BroQ - ceedlngs every time, say, the roads or pa»eje ments were "up" for the purpose of maintaining the public services, they would have o- a busy time. ia The magistrate held that a public servant, in the course of hie official duties, could not cause a legal obstruction, and the — Eummons was dismissed. JAPANESE ARMY TO LEARN BOXING. The Japanese army is bayoneting its way into present-day sports. It already has football teams and a successful baseball aggregation. The transformation from fencing and judo reaches its highest point with the inauguration of z. boxing class in the Toycma Military School, and the best athletos are to study the fistic art under Captain Warren G. Clear, an officer attached to the I American Embassy In the Japanese capital. '< This class has been started under the aus- ' pices of a prominent general and the ' Minister of War. I Captain Clear is to instruct the officers 'for three months, three days a week — Monday, Thursday and Friday. The American officer got his grounding I from Jack Dempsey while the latter was a I boxing instructor at Camp Mcade, Mary_umd, " _

Ontario Educational Association has passed a resolution, which is to be sent to Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, urging a Koyal Commission to inquire into the practicability iif simplified spelling reform throughout the Empire. ,- Mrs. Emily Jane Lucas, of Baltic Road, Tonbridgo, England, has given birth to her twenty-second child. Three sons died in, the war, and she has sixteen children under the age of nine. The family live on an income of £2 a week in a small house, the rent of which is 7/6 per week. BOY TRAMPLED TO DEATA While Norman Paradise, aged five, was playing in a field at Midsomer Norton, Somerset, a horse rushed at him and. trampled on him. The boy was rescued unconscious, and subsequently died. Norman, whose home was in Bristol, was on a holiday. QUAKERS AND BIRTH CONTROt In settling the committee to consider the Copec resolution on birth control, tbe yearly meeting of the Society of Friends at Llandrindod Wells, decided it should t>e called " Marriage and Parenthood Committee," so that its scope should not be restricted to one subject, bnt should have the whole question of furthering the ideal of happy marriages as its concern. EXPENSIVE GOOD. A matter-of-fact fnther of an embryo poet hnnded some of the lad'a fcHorts to a distinguished author of verse, and asked for his opinion. "Well, what's the answer?" queried the successful stockman. "Alas!" sighed the real poet. "Those things are so good I"m afraid you'll have to support (Henry the rest of his life." A IJVING PAVEMENT. The son of Mr. C. R. Das was arrested in Calcutta in connection with the Tarakeswar disturbances. , Troubles at Tarakeswar, in the Hooghly district, arose over the appointing of a Receiver for a Hindu temple. Satyagraba reformers protested by lyiug fiat on the ground around the temple, so as to prevent access to it. ..— - BRIGAND KING SHOT. Drago Frelerics, the most notorious ana daring brigand In Montenegro, was shoe dead near the town of Podgorica by a Serbian officer. A few years ago Prelevies shot a man dead In a venietta. He fled to the mountains and began the life of a professional brigand. Since then le lad committed 48 murders. The Serbian Government pnt a price or 100,000 dinars (about £300) on hla head. SKELETONS IN CHIMNEY. For the eecond time in less than three years the skeleton of a newly-born child has been found in a house in Eotherhithe Street, Kotherhithe, S.B. The first one was found in November, 1021, soon after the present tenants went into the nouse, which had been empty for several years. In both cases the skeletons have fallen down the chimney as Ores were being lighted. The police are making Inquiries. -~ 74 TEARS A CHORISTER. The record of Mr. E. S. Eyre, of HuggleScote, who was said to be the oldest chorister In England, Is beaten by that of Mr, Edward James, of West Haddon, Northamptonshire. Whereas Mr. Eyre is 82 and has been a j chorister 60 years, Mr. James 13 90 and has been a chorister 74 years—2s years at I Eothersthorpe and 40 years at West Haildon. Mr. James is still a regular member of the West Haddon choir. A HEART BROADCAST. A Bournemouth man, on business In Cardiff, had a sudden attack of heart trouble. He called at the Cardiff station of the 8.8.5., where the officials agreed to allow liia heart beats to be broadcasted to tha patient's doctor in Bournemouth. His doctor was previously spoken to by telephone, and agreed to listen-tn during an Interval in the programme. A microphone was placed against the man's breast, and the doctor at Bournemonth heard them distinctly. Knowing his patient, he was able at once to diagnose the trouble and prescribe by telephone later. BUNDED ON FOOTPLATE. When three boys were charged at Rushall, near Walsall, with throwing stones ot a train, it was etated that the driver, John Baker, of Eedditch, was so seriously Injured that he lies in hospital between life and death. He had lost the Bight of one eye and the other was endangered. The mother of one boy opposed the adjournment of the case, saying she and six children were about to sail for the United States to join her husband. The chairman replied: Here is a ma a blinded ajid lying between life and death, and yon want to run away. The boys will be remanded, and if yon attempt to leave the country you will be arrested. SMUGGLED TOBACCO. "I saw the stuff going cheap in Holland. It was old Army and Navy canteen goods. So I bought it," said Alfred Elliot, 57, a fireman of the steamship Heron, when he was charged at the Mansion House Police Court with smuggling lojlb of tobacco and a small quantity of spirits by hiding them in a coal banker. "Why didn't you declare the goods to the Customs officers?" said the clerk. "Because I didn't want to pay the duty," was the frank reply. "Now you will pay it three times over." wa3 the magistrates comment. "Pay £13 9/0, or go to prison for a month. I will give_you 14 days to find the money." LADY'S TRAGIC DEATH. Amy Lady Pelly, the philanthropist, whe was regarded as a fairy godmother by the poor of Westminster, fell from a bedroom window at her flat, a distance of 60ft, and died of her injuries. T.he accident was seen by a policeman on duty. Clad only In nightdress and slippers, she was picked up unconscious, and died while being conveyed to hospital. It is assum.'d that Lady Felly had been awakened by the thunderstorm -which swept over London during the night, and wanted to open the window. Apparently she slipped on the polished floor, in front of the window. Daughter of the late Tvev. John Lowder. British chaplain at Shanghai, Lady Pelly was the widow of Lieut.-General Sir Lewie Polly. She suffered from the delusion that she was spending money on herself which she should have devoted to poor people. She was a generous benefactor arnons tbe poor ot Westminster, and spent very little money on herself.