NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 212, 6 September 1924, Page 19

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Mrs. Jane Thomas (63) was found dead on her husband's grave at St. Andrew's Churchyard, Shoeburyness. At Wlllesden a landlady complained that he let a small flat to a husband and wife or 10/, on condition that they did not üb-let. She had now discovered that they jad sub-let to sixteen other people. " Put those ledgers away," said Judge | Cluer to plaintiff at Shoreditch County Court. " Books are not evidence in a court in this country. If they were I should have thousands of fraudulent books placed before mc." HUDSON RIVER BRIDGE. Costing six million dollars, the first vehicular and pedestrian bridge to span the Hudson River below Albany is in course of construction, forty miles north of New York. This new feat in American bridge building will result in a stable structure 1632 feet long, with towers 365 feet high. TOO MANY DUTCH. " Not enough room for either professional men or farmers, Is the problem in Holland ! to-day, where there are 205 persons to each square mile. France has seventy-four to a square mile, United States eleven, Argentina only three, and Australia, not quite one to.a square mile. BLACK CAT'S WARNING. A Bradford textile firm displays in its works the figure of a large black cat with the inscription, "This cat has nine lives. You have only one, so take care of it." I Beneath appears a wnrnlng about the ■ danger of loose overalls, oiling machinery in motion, leaving tools on the ground, and urging workers to keep clear of overhead loads. BRIGHTER UNIVERSITIES. Contrasting the newer universities with Oxford and Cambridge at Sheffield University, where he received the degree of Doctor of Literature, Dean Inge said the younger universities were keener intellectually than either Oxford or Cambridge. The old universities had sent some of their best men to the young 'vanities, especially in the North of England. SWEETEST TEMPERED PEOPLE. Professor Caldwell, of McGill University, taking greetings from Montreal to the conference of the Brotherhood Movement in London, said everybody who came to London admired "the patient, the non-bragging, the easy-going, the kindly humanitarian spirit" in which we were bearing all the great burdens of the present time. " The English people are the sweetesttempered people in the world," he added. MARRIAGE AS A HOBBY. Perhaps the most interesting of the many pieces of advice tendered a widower of 66 who is in search of a bobby to amuse him during lonely evenings, Is that tendered by an anonymous lady;— Dear Sir, —If you are alone, and no young family to rear, why not try a second marriage? Other correspondents suggest working out chess problems, transcription work into Braille for thu National Society of the 'Blind, and rug and mat-making; ENGLISHMAN'S ASSASSINATION. A message from Mexico City states that a Mr. Vereker (an El Aguila oil employee) has been assassinated by a fellow employee in a dispute owing to Mr. Vereker's alleged insults to Mexico concerning the affair of Mr. Cummins, the British agent, who left Mexico last month. Mr. Vereker was a nephew of Admiral Lord Jellicoe, the Governor-General of Xew Zealand, his mother being a sister of Lady JeMcoe. £430 WINE GLASS. A standard described as that of Prince Charles Edward's bodyguard, captured at Culloden, was sold for £900 at Sotheby's last month. Amongst other Jacobite relics four Pretender wine glasses, which were used in wishing-" Success to the Cause, ,, brought £1340. A glass, on which was inscribed a Jacobite version of the National Anthem, was sold for £430. A piece of blue silk ribbon worn bjr Charles I. on the scaffold realised £120. PENNILESS PRINCE. The Prince of Wales found himself without so much as a copper in his pockets recently when he wanted to buy a stamp. He had been invited to the Wembley post office by the postmaster, Mr. H. Wood, to purchase the five-millionth Exhibition stamp. When he put his hand to his pocket for the money to pay for the stamp he found that his pocket was empty, Mr. Wood promptly made him a present of the stamp. Lord Derby, who was with the party, also wanted a stamp, but be also found himself without the necessary money, bat refused to have a stamp without paying for it. SALVOES FIRED AT v BATTLESHIP. The signal "Abandon ship " was lately flashed by the flagship of the Atlantic Fleet. It had reference to the old battleship Agamemnon, which had steamed out from Torbay to await battleships and cruisers coming from Portland to fire six-inch shells at ber. The Agamemnon's crew was transferred to another vessel, and then for the next i two hours she was navigated by wireless : control from a destroyer travelling at a speed of fifteen knots. Fitted with cork to render ber unsinkable, the old warship was hit more than once by salvoes from the firing squadron. She afterwards returned to harbour.

I , WOMEN'S FIRE LEAP. There were exciting scenes at a fire la Woodfleld Street, Swansea, recently. Two women—Miss Phipps and a eervant—were trapped In a bedroom by the flames. Throwing the bedclothes on to the pavement, they jumped from the window oa to them. They were uninjured. FATAL FOOTBALL QUARREL. ! During a football match at Glasgow two spectators came to blows. Joseph Baillia (26) ship-work labourer, fell unconscloue from a blow on the face and died In the pavilion. Detectives detained a young man at a. house in the Mary-hill district, and he wae remanded for Inquiries. SOME I/LD, BELIEVE MB. 1 speaking ■ (says "N.Y. Herald"), Senator La FoUette set a new pace for Presidential candidates. When he appeared at the headquarters of the Conference for Progressive Political Action, in charge of hie campaign for the Presidency, he was wearing a hat, which ia beyond dot*! a pioneer in this branch of imale adornment. ' Made with an unusually high crown of , finely woven straw, ft has a soft roll brim of grey felt. It Is trimmed with a wide band of black. MY LADY'S LOCKS. When the queus of China were cut, following the revolution of 1911, there was placed on the market an enormous quantity of human hair, which led to the development of the hair-net industry in China to I the extent of ten million dollars in exports. But the wholesale bobbing of the hair has almost done away with the hair net, and a .report received by the textile division of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce from Shanghai shows that the industry has fallen off alarmingly. MARRIED MOTHEE IS LAW. At Santa Monica, U.S.A., a man named Burk, who lost his wife, has married hie mother-in-law, Mrs. Sarah Maloney. In the marriage records Bark's age Iβ given at 58 and hie wife's as 72. Mr. Burk had four children by his first wife, so that his second becomes stepmother of her own grandchildren, and as she has four living eons, Bnrk is now etepfather to hia brothere-in-law and the brothers-in-law aro both uncles and stepbrothers to Burk's four children. The whole family are living nnder one roof and are described as most happy. WILLIE, THE LOST GIANT. A man 6ft sin In height has been found wandering in the Xew' Forest England, about five miles from Cnrlstchurch. •He could not give any account of himself and Is apparently suffering from complete loss of memory. He is now lying in hospital at Boscombe. The man speaks with an Irish accent, and in one of his pockete was found a rosary. He has Wne eyes, dark hair brnshed well fcack from the forehead, iresQ complexion and is clean sbaVen. His age Is abont 25 and his Christian name is apparently Willie. WOMSX JOURNALISTS. One fourth of the practicing journalists in America are women, according to a report recently compiled, journalism including authors, editors and reporters, the total number showing 0000 women among its 10,000 members. Many weeklies are owned and operated by women, especially country papers in the middle west, while feminine conductors of columns and departments are numerous. Women have little training or Inclination toward editorial positions, since it requires interest and training in economics, politics and similar subjects, but as feature writers, reporters, and the like they excel. MFB'S UTTLE IEviTJ. "I went to prison for the rates, bo It proves I have no money," said a debtor ia the Shoreditch County Court. The plaintiff: It proves nothing. Hβ told mc it was bis only holiday from his wife, so lie always took it. "A man will take months to "train for a fight, but a wife would train and tame him In a week," declared a woman In the same court. "lon are what we may call 'a fussy woman'?" ,sald a solicitor to another woman. The woman (pointing 'to a man) : That I am not. Look what I married. BANDITS' BIG HAUL. A huge mail train robbery occurred between Aix La Chapelle and Rnnheide, when bandits, who. It is presumed, had j previously boarded the train, overpowered I the courier in charge of the bags belonging Ito the military. They contained property I to the valne of seven million francs. later, the bags were picked up empty, and it was found that a cheque for 100,000 francs, which was among the property, had I been negotiated in the Belgian zone. The discovery of an abandoned motor ear led to the arrest of one of the bandits and a receiver. Two other men escaped te Cologne. LITIGATION AS HOBBY. "A second Mrs. Carhcart." was Judge Clner'e description of a woman in Shoreditch County Conrt. The judge had before him a possession summons, in which Mr. Jack Joseph, Stoke Newington, was the plaintiff, and Mrs. Eleanor'Barnes the defendant. The case revealed an astonishing course of litigation, which had lasted since 1920. Mr. Joseph said that Mrs. Barnes had persisted in making him obtain his rent by coming to the court, and gave a long history of the litigation against her; beginning in December, 1920, and continuing I in February, May, September, 1921, Septem- ) ber, 1022, March, July and November 1923, and March, 1D24. Judge Cluer made a final order for Mrs. Barnes to go In four weeks, saying that a landlord should not be troubled with her. RAXNFIFE LADDER. A man escaped from Wandsworth Prison with the aid of a length of rainwater pipe which he had wrenched away from a wall. His name is William StrolL He had served eight weeks ot a sentence of 15 months paused on him at the Newington Sessions. He is 33 years old, an* a. former Borstal boy. He picked the lock of his cell in one of the buildings that radiate from the centre of the prison like the ribs of a fan. He then made his way to the roof by forcing the oars of a skylight. Hβ walkefl along the parapet a few feet ontn he eaae to a rainwater pipe, which ne taj dfeeoTered apparently some d«y» Sefow, te be loose. He was faced wia a took the tjsjt. . "When he reached the bottom he took a ofrtde ™v at a potat"where "T 'iTbnilr elonrtlie top of a eteep railway cnttlnsae cltooed hie rainwater pipe ladder. •Bβ twa, it teemi, nude «ff down the cuttte*