NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 248, 18 October 1924, Page 19

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

When travelling at 140 m.p.h. in a raring oar on Fanos Island. Capt. Malcolm Campbell lost a tyre, which killed a boy, knocked over a stand, and ran on for over a mile. A Defendant at Enfield: My wife haa been on strike for a year. ' The Clerk: That is rather fashionable; perhaps she wants more pay. French workmen in a shop at St. Mairc-aux-Mines discovered a skeleton of a i German soldier with a live bomb in his baud. J. G. HatnVld. of Middlesbrough, scored his fifth long distance swimming champion- | ship on the Thames, when, on the Row to! Putney course of live miles 60 "yards, he ( beat -I swimmers. Mr. Charles E. Kann, of Crystal Palace Road. .East Dulwicb, has just celebrated his 100 th birthday. Eighty descendants and near relatives representing lour eeneraA horse taking part in mounted events at a sports at Caversham sqqdenly bolted from tbe ground, jumped into the Thames, swam across, and then trotted unconcernedly- heme to South Stoke, some miles away. FILMS BY RADIO. Colonel E. H. R. Green, son of Hetty Green, says he bas so nearly perfected an invention toat ue is confident it will be possible for vim to broadcast cinema drama? within the next 12 months. He hat given a demonstration and transmitted v film ;< short distance in the presence of experts, who agree that a new era will soon be opened. WOUNDED SEVEN TIMES IN MIGHT FIGHT. A fight between two men In the- dark, in which one is said to have been stabbed seven times, was described to the Sittingbourne Bench. It was alleged that Edward Weatberly, a powerfully-built frnit picker, attacked a Qeld worker named Richaid Hearn with a clasp knife after the two had quarrelled about a woman on the way home from the village inn. One of Beam's Eeven wounds was <3angerons. TVefltherly, who was arrested at Ashford, was committed for trial. TALL, ELDEBI-Y GHOST. Residents of Welling. Kent, on the mo. Dover Road, ten miles from London, ati= discussing a ghost which is said to visit Dadson House, a 400-year-old unoccupied mansion. The story is that Sir John Boyd, ■ a wealthy London merchant, who came Into possession in 1770, revisits the house. The trustees of the estate and a London colt citor, who recently visited Dadson House to transact some business, are Eaid to have met Sir John'B ghost and were 6o startled that they made a hasty exit. An old servant describes the ghost as that of a tall, elderly man, clad in eighteen centory costume. BACK TO NATURE. A boy who appeared before the magistrates at Canterbury proved to be Benlah Norman, of Bournemouth, who has run away from home many times. He wae found at Whitstable, efter having been missing from his home for over a month. He was charged with stealing a pair oi dress trousers and a silk scarf from a concert party dressing room at Wbitstable. When asked b.T the police sergeant what he was doing at Whitslable, he replied, "I have ran away from my borne in Bournemouth, and have been sleeping on the •lopes of Tankerton since August Bane. Holiday." His own clothes were fonni in a rabbit burrow among the bushes where lie bad been sleeping. RUSSIAN PRINCE IN A BANK. Prince Dimitri, a nephew of the late Tsar of Russia, was recent!? discovered ■working quietly as a clerk in the National American Bank, New York. I i; mung man has dropped his Eoyal tkie. . ml is known eimpiy as Mr. Dimitri. He receives £5 ■weekly for his services, and lives alone in a modest boardingbouse near the bank. As a clerk he gets precisely the same treatment as his fellow-workers, and, according to his superiors, performs his duties quietly and efficiently. Dimitri has been in the United States seven months. He desires Ito become thoroughly grounded in the principles o£ American business. "Later," he said, "when the course of the present regime bas been run, I shall return to Russia and do something useful in tbe reconstruction of my native land." LOVESICK GIRL'S REVENGE. A terrible crime of passion has been committed by a 14-year-old girl, Marie Rosstgnol, at Bourg Saint Andeol, in the Ardecbe Department. About a year ago the girl made the acquaintance of Louis Chiuon, aged 10, and the two were soon though their parents did their best to discourage their romantic ideas. Recently the boy had asked his father's consent to his marriage, but the father firmly refused on the ground that neither the young people was old enough to take so serious I a 6tep, and as the law requires parental ■consent in the case of the'marriage of minors the attitude of Cbinon, senior, raised an insuperable obstacle to the young couple's plans. Nothing more was heard of the marriage •project, but on a recent day, when Chinon, senior, was walking in his garden a revolver shot rang out, and he fell dead, shot through the head. As the neighbours ran to his assistance Marie Rossignol stepped forward- still holding a smoking weapon. Quite coolly she said: "It is I who have killed him. He would not ( consent to give ns happiness, so now it is all over—so much the worse for him."

; While a man was washing his hands at Wembley, a thief stole from his overcoat pocket a wallet containing a. few scraps of paper and overlooked another wallet containing £100. After eating ice-cream and sweets a 10----year-old Middlebrough girl named Vera Lister was taken ill and died. Irritant poison was found in the stomach. j Strange noises in the cellar led a woman and her husband at Gniselcy, Yorkshire, to seaeh for burglars. They were astonished to find a cow which had come in from the road and had descended the steps. [ ___ j Before committing suicide by inhaling ,coal gas, William John Curran (aged 21), la painter, of Shepherd's Bush, wrotn asking his wife to tell the gas company h« was sorry to have disturbed their fittings. LEAVES 77 DESCENDANTS. Mrs. Sarah H. Stanley died at her home at Macon, U.S.A., at the age of 93, leaving seventy-seven direct descendants of four generations, five children, twenty-nine grandchildren, forty-two great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. LADY BEATTY'S ADVENTURE. Lady Beatty, her 14-year-old eon Peter, and Lady Ednam, wife of Lord Ednam. SI. P. for Hornsey, got into difficulties while bathing from Admiral Beatty"* yacht off Therapia, in the Bosphorus. They were swept away by tbe curreor. The yachts dinghy immediately put off and rescued them. MR. JOHNSON'S SPEED. Jack Johnson, coloured es-heavyweig'tit champion of the world, admitted that h<? was going all of sixty-five miles an hoar when Motor Cycle Policemen Long and Ott arrested him near Naperville, U.S.A. Justice of the Peace O. W. Strubler fined him 10 dollars and costs, making a total of 13 dollars. "Say, judge, would you just ns leave mate that 14 dollars?" pleaded Johnson- "I'm superstitious." He won hie point. WORLDS LARGEST TURBINE FOR U.S.A. The world's largest turbine, built by the Parsons Company, Newcastle, for tbe Commonwealth Edison Company, Chicago, was placed in parts on 70 railway trucks, preparatory to shipment from Wallaend to America. The turbine is 50,000 kilowatts, and the weight 1000 tons. The Americans pay 15 per cent import duty on the steam gear, and 30 per cent on the electrical. AMERICA'S CASUAL ASSASSINS. Albert Nelson, an Austin contractor, was shot through the heart twice by an unidentified man during an argument that grew out of an automobile collision between Nelson's machine and that of his slayer. Tbe killer escaped. Tbe shooting occurred, according to Mrs. Nelson, wife of the slain man, while her husband and the stranger were arguing abont damages to Nelson's machine. Unable to agree. Nelson suggested that they go to the police station, Mrs. Nelson said. Without replying, the man drew a revolver, fired twice, and drove away. BABY LEFT BEHIND. So great was the excitement amongst Americana who went to the United States in the Beringaria with the Prince of Wales that a seven-months-old baby—one of the ricbeet babies in California—was left behind at the Sav»y Hotel. It was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. f Wilbur Moore, of Los Angeles, who had been in London for some months. The baby occupied the nursery which is attached to one r>f the Royal suites ef the hotel. Mr. Moore, with ene of the nurses, had to dash back to the Savoy from the boat train for the baby. DOCTOR IVIES FROM SCRATCH. Scratched while conducting a post mortem examination, Dr. Albert Howarth, a brilliant young pathologist at Manchester Eoyal Inrirmary, has died from blood poisoning. Dr. Howgrtb. conducted tbe examination on July 22, and received the scratch from a rib. Infection set in, end leave of absence was granted The doctor recovered slightly, but relapsed and died after returning to the I infirmary as a patient. Dr. Howarth, who was 36, was married to a woman doctor. He was educated at > (Manchester University, and held degrees of M-Sc In chemistry, H.B. and Cn.B. He was about to take np on appointment as lecturer in pathology at Leeds University. ! At an inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned. ALIEN EX-CONVICTS DEPORTED Alien ex-convicts, gathered from all etc- ; j tions Of the United States, recently ' j arrived at Ellis Island, New Tork. for ' • deportation. This round-up, it is reported, ' j marks the first step by the Government 1 in a campaisrn to rid the United States of ■ ail men of alien birth who have been helping to fill the prisons of the country. The j last arrivals at Ellis Island were picked up 'i in various Southern and Western cities, 1 i from New Orleans to Seattle. Apparently ■ i they have been living in America from 1 one to five years. While some completed 1 their prison sentences months ago, the £ majority, apparently, were only released > recently. It is the Government's policy I to deport all offenders who cannot prove 1 that they have been naturalised. Inspectors t are visiting the various.prisons, investigat- • ing the number of alien criminals in the I various institutions. In some cases war--3 rants are left authorising the Governors : to detain those wanted until the Federal i authorities can deal with them. t FRATERNITY, BUT NOT 9 LIBERTY. The remarkable scenes of fraternisation • which occurred between soldiers of th* opposing anrtes in the front-line trenches in December, 1015, are recalled by a Judgment of court-martial of the Twentieth Region, which has just sentenced Eugen? Biancbi to five years' hard labour for desertion. Bianchl, it was recognised, was guilty of bad judgment rather than of a deliberate intention to leave his post, for be was the victim o£ a German rase. Hβ was in an advanced trench with several comrades in December, 1915, when Bavarians in trenches only a few yards in front made friendly overtures by flinging packets of cigarettes into the French lines. Bianchi, never doubting their good faith, and wishing to return the compliment, walked over to the enemy trench with a bottle of wine, but the Bavarians suddenly tripped him headlong into their own trench ana took him prisoner. Bianchi was subsequently posted as a deserter, and condemned to death in his absence for deserting his post in the face of the enemy, and when he learnt of this sentence on his release after the Armistice he remained in biding at Nancy. On his discovery and arrest last month the graver charge against him was replaced by one of neglecting his post —an offence still sufficiently serious, however, to have incurred a penalty of flre years in a penal settlement.