NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 224, 20 September 1924, Page 19

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Richard Robert Hill, a carpenter, was sentenced to a month's hard labour by Boston (Lincolnshire) magistrates for beating a dog to death with a hammer. CRAZY WITH LOSS. j Charles Rohutizk, of Jersey City, went to lunch with 2000 dollars In currency Jn his pocket. When be returned to the shop where he is employed, the money was missing. He became hysterical and was taken to the Psychopathic Hospital. SUICIDE IN SLEEP. That he mny bare cut his throat In his sleep was suggested at an inquest on Thornton Jones, solicitor, et Bangor. j Jones lived eighty minutes after the j wound. He cried out to his wife and son. ] "Forgive mc," then, motioning for paper , and pencil, he wrote :— I I dreamt that I had done it. I awoke to find It true. A verict of "Suicide while temporarily insane" was returned. LORD NORTHCUFFE'S BEQUEST Mr. Justice Russell, in the Chancery Division, conditionally approved a compromise scheme for the payment to em- | ployees of legacies under the will of Lord Northcllffe. It was stated that In order that the legaclee to the people with whom his brother had so long been associated should be paid in full, Lord Rothermere had offered to. provide £100,000. TREASURY WINDFALL. The will was proved at Derby of Llent.Colonel William Dickson Wlnterbottom, JJ , ., D.L., of Aston Hall, Derby, well known In local hunting circles, who died on" April 23 last, aged €6. The estate has been sworn at £1,069,964 gross, with net personalty £937.617. Death duties amounting to over £300,000 lave been paid. Subject to certain small legacies to servants, the only beneficiaries nnder the will are the widow and three children, and the widow of a eon killed In the war. BRITISH PEOPLE LIVE LONGER. The general health of the English nation is better, and the expectation of life longer,, than ever before. This' was the encouraging theme of an address by Dr. F. C. Shrubsall to the British Association at Toronto. Points In his paper are:— In London elementary ichools there has been a gain of a full half-Inch In stature since 1904. The average weight of boat race crews has increased nearly a stone In CO year*. lABY BURGLAR. Two charges of burgtory were preferred against Jean Chapman, aged H, woman domestic servent sent for trial by the Croydon magistrates. At midnight a constable nil he found that the dining room window of a house at Russell Hill, Parley, was smashed and a large stone was lying on the window sill. He caught the woman coming out of the kitchen window. She said, "I am the servant here. My people are away. I thought I heard the front door move, so I came out of the back." Chapman was also charged with breaking Into a house at Sanderstead and with stealIng property rained at £8. A glass panel was then broken In the front door. «5000 GEM AS PAPER-WEIGHT. The world's largest sapphire, weighing ten ounces and valued at. more than £5000, was exhibited at Wembley. It is intricately carved In the form of an eaqjprnament, and must originally have been about twice lti present size. It was discovered in the home of a Mohammedan official in Hyderabad State, where It was used as a paper-weight, by Mr. Wakefield, Director-General of Revenue, who was told that the children of the family had played with It as they would with ordinary stones. It is shown in the Bombay Court of the Indian Pavilion. The stone has a long and romantic history. It was formerly an ornament on a Buddha belonging to the Ballala kings of Southern India In the twelfth century. POLICE DOG AND THIEVES. Trained as a police dog, a fine Alsatian wolf-hound, owned by a Putney constable, put to flight petrol thieves at three o'clock one morning. • Four men in a Ford car, burgled the Pioneer Petrol Filling Station, Kingston Vale, broke open a bin, and were running away with 14 cans of petrol, when the bold Alsatian appeared on the scene. The dog was on patrol with his master, Police Constable Charman, and was the first to spot the men, and sprang after them. The thieves caught a glimpse of the ferocious - looking animal, and promptly dropping their booty, sped off in different ' directions, getting clear away. One cine that they left behind -fas their slx-seater motor car. THE BUST RICH. Two women prominent In New York society received decrees of divorce in the Same Tribunal at Paris, both on the ' ground of abandonment. Mrs. Malcolm Whitman, formerly Miss ; Jennie Crocker, and Mrs. John Wolfe, fori merely Miss Mary Hudson Coffin, were the plaintiffs. Mrs. Wolfe has two children by her first I marriage, Harriet and Ralston Coffin, both (of whom are at boarding schools in the j United States. The Wolfes were married in 191 C. Mrs. Whitman inherited a San • Francisco fortune of 10.000,000 dollars, and Mr. Whitman, who is a Boston man, is also a millionaire. They were married In San Mateo, California, in 1912, and came to reside at 876, Fifth Avenue. New York. Mr. Whitman, a graduate of Harvard, ' was American tennis champion for several years. He was a widower, his first wife having been Miss Janet McCook.

LEO'S BODY TO BE REMOVED. The body of Pope Leo XIII., who died In 1903, os been removed from St. Peter's to the basilica of St. John Lateran, ears the "Nuovo Pacsc." Burial of the late Pope in the basilica, requested in his will, has not taken place before because of thl fear of the anti-clerical demonstrations. ■ i , CHESS AND DICE, B.C. 500. A native official of the Archaeological Department has been digging. In a lonely district of Sind.'at what appears to be a minor Indian "Pompeii," but some half a millennium older than that unhappy Roman city. In the remains of rooms and corridors are found inlay shellwork, marble and agate and baked-earth chessmen and gaming dice, an ivory ball and a child's rattle, and spoons or dippers of mother-of-civilisation in the sth or 6th Century, B.C. " BLACK DIAMOND " DEFEATED. " Black Diamond," a famous ostrich, has been klUed In a fight with six other ostriche. at a farm near Hot Springs, Arkansas. - "Black Diamond,' who was fifty-nine years old, raced on many tracks in U.S.A., and was never defeated, i His most noted achievement was at Greenville (Ohio) 17 years ago. when he sprinted half a mile in LOomln., setting an ! American record, which still stands. ANCIENT PEERAGE REVIVED. Mr. Henry Fitzwalter Plumptre, of Goodnestone Park, near Deal, has received a letter from the Prime Minister officially, intimating that he had succeeded in his claim to the barony of Fitzwalter, which dates from 1203, and has been in abeyance since 1756. Mr. Plumptre, Interviewed, said : —"I knew when I came inito the property thirtytwo years ago that I was justly entitled to claim the title, but I have been thirty years making up my mind to do soDISOBEDIENT WIVES. "It is not unlawful for a husband to restrain his wife from courses of disobedience and misbehaviour," eald Mr. Justice Roche at Manchester Assizes. John Asplln, of Grange-over-Sands, was granted a divorce, though his wife had previously secured from the local magistrates a separation order on the ground of his cruelty towards her. The judge said that Asplln went no further than to lay hands on his wife on one occasion to restrain her from a course he regarded as leading to infidelity, and with the facts before him he should not have arrived at the conclusion reached by the magistrates. £107,000 FROM GRETNA. A total snm of £107,762 was obtained from the auction at Gretna (the Government munition town), it was stated by Mr. Snowden , in the Honse of Commons. Only the works and plant of the Ether factory were sold, said Mr. Snowden. All the other factories were still on the GoTorament's bands. Scottish Labour members had complained of the "ridiculous pricee" at which public plant was being disposed of. The Government last week refused to interrupt the sale, but has instituted a.Cabinet inquiry Into the possible adaptation of Gretna to public uses In peace time. The factories and town originally cost £9,000,000. THROWN INTO SEA. A drama of the sea was described at Barry when Lngi Zahra, a Maltese fireman, of the steamer Pengreet, was cliarged wltn attempted murder. Zahra, it was alleged, threw orerboara ■Gurra Adam, an Arab seaman, when the steamer was going full speed, ten days out from Malta, through a sea infested with man-eating sharks. When the alarm "Man overboard" was given the engines were stopped, the ship swung round, and a lifeboat launched. During the rescue, it was alleged, prisoner calmly paced the deck smoking a cigarette. It was stated that a dispute had arisen between the men as to their respective duties. Zahra - was committed to the Assizes. UNUSUAL RECIPE. A grocer, who was in the habit of printing his advertisements under the heading of "Advice to Housewives," recently published the following advertisement which brought many enthusiastic letters of approval:— Our Advice to Mothers: If ybu want to preserve children, follow these directions: Take 1 large grassy field. 1-2 dozen children. 2 or 3 small dogs. A pinch of brook and pebbles. Mix children and dogs well together and put them In field, stirring constantly. Pour brook over pebbles; sprinkle field with flowers: spread over all a deep blue sky; and bake in the sun. When brown, remove, and set to cool in a bath tub. GOOD FOOD MAY POISON. It was stated at an Inquest at Hastings on Arthur James Walker, Upper Norwood, London, that "it ii possible for perfectly good food to poison a person. Harold Walker said his brotffer, who was on a visit to Hastings, was taken 111 after eating some tinned peas at a local cafe. Dr. Harry Gabb said Walker was very liable to gastric trouble, and the symptoms of ptomaine poisoning were similar to those of several other diseases. Perfectly good I food which would be Innocuous to most I people might in the case of a man In j Walker's condition set np poisoning. The proprietor of the cafe Bald the peas were served to forty persons daily, and he himself and staff ate them. In returning a verdict of death from natural causes the coroner said he was satisfied that the tinned peas could not be connected with the death. POSED SIX WEEKS AS A GIRL. Having successfully posed as a girl for six weeks, Anbrey Morris, a 17-year-old lad, of Northampton, has been gent back home. Dressed as a girl, he made for London, after which he visited Liverpool, Blackpool, and other places. His appearance was sufficiently attractive to encourage the attention of a number of men, and the young masquerader revelled in his assumed role during the flirtations. The "limit" was reached when a staid policeman from a seaside town fell a victim to the "girl's" charms. Eventually Morrla reached Burnley, and there, with remarkable audacity, gained admission to, the Home of Help for girls who are penniless and stranded. Ec was given food and a bed for the night. The following day, however, the matron noticed bj chance that her guost wore a wig. Ht Bn.«picions were aroused, and Morris then admitted that he was a boy. He was handed over to the police and sent back to Northampton, to the great relief of ill mother and family.