NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 248, 18 October 1924, Page 55 (Supplement)

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

When travelling at 140 ro.p.b. in a racing ?ar on I'anos Island. Capt. Malcolm Campbell lost a tyre, which killed a bor, knocked jver a stand, and ran on for over a mile. A Defendant at EnfielJ: My wife has The Clerk: That is rather fashionable; perhaps she wants more pay. French workmen in a shop at St. Maire-aux-Minrs discovered a skeleton of a j soldier with a live bonib in his baud. . j J. G. Hatneld. of Middlesbrough, scored] his fifth long distance swimming champion- i ahip on the Thames, wben, on the Row to 1 Putney course of live miles 60 yards, he \ beat '-■! swimmers. I Mr. Charles E. Kann, of Crystal Palace ; Road. .East Dulwicb, has just celebrated his 100 th birthday. Eighty descendants and near relatives representing four generations were present at a family party. A horse taking part In mounted events at a sports gathering at Caversbam suddenly bolted from tbe ground, jumped into tbe Thames, swam across, and then trotted unconcernedly borne to South Stoke, some miles away. FILMS BY RADIO. Colonel E. 11. R. Green, son of Hetty Green, says he has so nearly perfected an invention that Lie Is confident it will be possible for vim to broadcast cinema dramas within 'he next 12 months. He has given a demonstration and transmitted a nlui .i short distance in the presence of experts, who agree that a new era will soon be opened. WOUNDED SEVEN TIMES IN NIGHT FIGHT. A fight between two men in the dark, in wbiob one is said to have been stabbed seven times, was described to the Sittingbourne Bench. It was alleged that Edward YTeatberly, a powerfully-built frnlt picker, attacked a field worker named Eichaid 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 seven wounds was <3ancerons. Weatherly, who was arrested at Ashford, was committed for trial. TALI, ELDERLY GHOST. Residents of Welling, Kent, on the urn Dover Road, ten miles from London, aie discussing a ghost which is said to visit Dadson House, a 400-year-old unoccupied mansion. Tbe story is that Sir John Boyd. • a wealthy London merchant, who came Into possession in 1770. revisits the house. Tbe trustees of the estate and a London coll citor, wbo recently visited Dadson House to transact some business, are said to have met Sir John's ghost and were go startled that they made a hasty exit. An old servant describes the ghost as that of a tall, elderly man, clad in eighteen century costume. BACK TO NATURE. A boy who appeared before the magistrates at Canterbury proved to be Beniah Norman, of Bournemouth, who has run away from home many times. He wae found at Wbitetable, after having beeu 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 Whitstable. Wnen asked b.T the police sergeant what he was doing at Whitslable, he replied, "I have run away from my borne in Bournemouth, and have been sleeping on the ■lopes of Tankerton since August Bane. Holiday." His own clothes were fonnii in a rabbit burrow among the bushes where he had been sleeping. RUSSIAN PRINCE IN A BANK. Prince Dimitri, a nephew of the latp Tsar of Ru6sia, was recently discovered working quietly as a clerk in the National American Bank, New York. Tli- roung man has dropped his Royal ti:;«\ mid Is known eimpiy as Mr. Dimitri. He receives £5 weekly for his services, and lives alone In a modest boardlnghouse near the bank. As a clerk he gets precisely the same treati ment 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 of American business. "Later," he said, "when the course of the present regime has been run, I shall return to Russia and do something useful in the reconstruction of my native land." LOVESICK GIRL'S REVENGE. A terrible crime of passion has been committed by a 14-year-old girl, Marie Rossignol, at Bourg Saint Andeol. in the Ardeche Department. About a year ago the girl made the acquaintance o£ Louis Chinon, aged 15, and the two were soon passionately in love with each other, though their parents did their best to discourage their romantic ideas. Recently the boy had asked his father's consent tc his marriage, but the father firmly refused on the ground that neither the young people wag old enough to take bo serious 'consent in the case of the'marriage ol minors the attitude of Chinon, senior raised an Insuperable obstacle to the younj couple's plans. Nothing more was hearc of the marriage -project, but on a recent day, when Chinon, senior, was walking it his garden a revolver shot rang out, anc he fell dead, shot through the head. Ai the neighbours ran to his assistance Mari< I Rossignol stepped forward still holding i smoking weapon. Quite coolly she said : "I: is I who have killed him. He would no' consent to give us happiness, so now it i: nil 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 illddlebrough 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 Guiselcy, Yorkshire, to jseach for burglars. They were astonished to find a cow which had come in from the road and had descended the steps. I Before committing suicide by inhaling coa! gas, William John Curran (aged 2t>, a painter, of Shepherd's Bush, wrotn asking his wife to tell the pas company ho 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. I-ady Beatty, her 14-year-old son Peter, and Lady Ednam, wife of Lord Ednam. M.P. for Hornsey, got into difficulties while bathing from Admiral Beatty"* yacht off Therapia, in the Bosphorus. They were swept away by the current. The yacht's dinghy immediately put off and rescued them. MR. JOHNSON'S SPEED. Jack Johnson, coloured ex-heavy weigbt champion of the world, admitted that he was going all of sixty-five miles an hour when Motor Cycle Policemen Long and Ott arrested him near Naperville, U.S.A. J'istice of the Peace 0. W. Strubler fined hjm 10 dollars and costs, making a total of 13 dollars. "Say, judge, would you just as leave make that 14 dollars?" pleaded Johnson. "I'm superstitious." He won bis point. WORLD'S LARGEST TURBINE FOB TT.S.A. The world's largest turbine, built by the Parsons Company, Newcastle, for the Commonwealth Edison Company, Chicago, was placed In parts on 70 railway tracts, preparatory to shipment from Wallsend to America. The turbine is 50,000 kilowatts, and the weight 1000 tons. The Americana 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 throngh the heart twice by an unidentified man during an argument that grew out of an automobile collision between Nelson's machine and that of hie slayer. The killer escaped. The shooting occurred, according to Mrs. Nelson, wife of the slain man, while her husband and the stranger were arguing about damages to Nelson's machine. Unable to agree. Nelson suggested that they go to tbe police station, Mrs. Nelson said. Without replying, tbe 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 Beringarla with the Prince of Wales that a seven-months-old baby—one of the richest babies in California—was left behind at the Saray Hotel. It was tbe youngest son of Mr. and Mrs.' Wilbur Moore, of Los Angeles, who had been in London for some months. The baby occupied the nursery which i 3 attached to one 'if the Royal suites ef the hotel. Mr. Moore, with one of the nurses, bad to dash back to the Savoy from the bolt train for the baby. DOCTOR IVIES FROM SCRATCH. Scratched While conducting a post mortem examination. Dr. Albert Howarth, a brilliant young pathologist at Manchester Royal Inrtrmary. has died from blood poisoning. Dr. Howarth conducted the examination . on Julj 22, and received the scratch from a rib. i 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. i Dr. Howarth, who was 38, was marriert i! to a woman doctor. He was educated at > I Manchester University, and held degrees of ' iLSc In chemistry, M.B. and Ch.B. ; He wan about to take up an appointment 1 as lecturer in pathology at Leeds University. : At an inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned. ALIEN EX-CONVICTS DEPORTED 1 Alien ex-convicts, gathered from all see- '' I tions Of the United States, recently '' j arrived at Ellis Iriand, New York, for ' ■ deportation. This round-up, it is reported, 5 j marks the first step by the Government 1 in a campaign to rid the United States of ' all men of alien birth who have been help- " ing to fill the prisons of the country- The 7 j last arrivals at Ellis Island were picked up 'I in various Southern and Western cities, ' i from New Orleans to Seattle. Apparently ' i they have been living in America from 3 one to five years. While some completed • their prison sentrncee months ago. the E majority, apparently, were only released • I recently. It is tbe Government's policy ? I to deport all offenders who cannot prove i that they have been naturalised. Inspectors t are visiting the various prisons, investigati ing the number of alien criminals in the i various institutions. In some cases wars rants are left authorising the Governors c to detain those wanted until the Federal a. authorities can deal with them. t t FRATERNITY, BUT NOT a LIBERTY. The remarkable scenes o£ fraternisation • which ocenrred between soldiers of the opposing arartes in the front-line trenches in December, IDIS, are recalled by a Judgment of court-martial o£ the Twentieth Region, which has just sentenced Eugene Bianchi to five years' hard labour for desertion. Bianchi, it was recognised, was guilty of bad judgment rather than of j. deliberate intention to leave his post, for he was the victim o£ a German ruse. 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 and 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 ftre years in a penal settlement.