NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 307, 27 December 1924, Page 19

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Canada is second in the countries of the world in the use of telephones in proportion to population. Installations tota I.Wti.OUO, or one for practically every nius persons. Possession of the entire Brnln olevatoi system of Manitoba has just been arquireii by the United I;rain CroiviTS. Limited, 4i elevators having been taken over outright Diirkfast Ahhpjr. the fainnun Devot monastery, elalms to V'ss.-ss one of th( largest apiaries In Hie i-nuniry. It com prises inn hives, ami in iin averajre yea the bees proiluee eight tons of honey : worth t'lOuO. 1 Miss Anne riasenyne-l'ecil ilS>. younse* daughter of 1.0r.l William liascoyne Cecil : Hisliop of KxetiT. dlfil in a riyiuouti ; nursing home from typhoid fever. Th. j bishop had another daughter In the sami ! nursing home. I CANADIAN WHEAT JUBILEE. Fifty years azo Canada sent her firs shipment of wheat to England. It wa: less than 1000 bushels. Last year the Do minion sent nearly I*J7,OOO,UGO bushels bo sides enormous quantities of oats am barley. CHILD'S COMIC PHILOSOPHY Picked up uninjured from beneath i motor car which had knocked her down a Aldershot, a little girl, after wiping awa; her tears, cheerfully observed, "I nearl; lost ray comic," referring to a paper sh had just bought. WOMEN MORE CAREFUL THAI MEN. v> omen would appear to be much mor rareful when mixing with London trafli thnn men are. Only one third of las rear's street accidents betel women. BOY DIES AT FOOTBALL. A sixteen-year-old Grantham schoolboy Thomas Robert White, while playing in football match against King's School, n Peterborough, sank to the ground after goal had been scored by the Peterboroug team. Other players who ran to h assistance found him unconscious, and whe a doctor arrived he said the boy was deai The game was abandoned. JOEY CAPTTJKED. Joey, the pet African monkey, whir made a home for himself in a turret c Benhill Road Presbyterian Cbnrc-b, near h was trapped by Mr. John J.irvis, a profe the bait which enticed the monkey in the trap is a secret concoction given hi: by an Eastern sailor and has an irresi tible fascination for all animals. LONDON'S TRAGIC YEAR. London streets are becominK increasing perilous. This year already (>O7 peop have been killed and 61,004 injured accidents. The figures were issued by Pcotlai Yard. If the average is maintained tl year's total death roll will exceed that any previous year by more than 100. During the three months ended Sc ternber 30, 223 persons were killed ai 22.301 injured. DICKENS' DAUGHTER. Mrs. Kate Penigini, the second and on surviving daughter of Charles Dickei celebrated her eighty-fifth birthday at h home in Chelsea on Wednesday. Messages of congratulation, flowers, a other presents were sent to her from parts of the world by men and worn famous in art and literature. Mrs. Peruginl enjoys the best of heali One of her favourite reminiscences of t great novelist is the story of how s and her sister, Mary Dickens, taught th father to dance the polka for her brothe party. Dickens awoke during the nigl and fearing that he bad forgotten t steps, went through them alone In 1 bedroom by candle-light. SMOKING IN A POWDER MAGAZINE. A fine of £5 was imposed on Willis Dingley (oS), storekeeper, at Pontlottyn I smoking in a powder magazine at Ogil' Colliery, Deri. It was said the magazine contained pounds of eansonlte, 90 ponnds of explos: detonators, and 45 time fuses. A wag near by contained 1000 rounds of hi explosives. If this had detonated, said the prosee Ing solicitor, there were sufficient h explosives to blow up the colliery. The stipendiary said the only thing tt saved Dinpley from Imprisonment was I fact that there were no dwellings near. V.C. DIES IN POVERTY. Thomas Whltham, V.C, who won the ' o' bronze ,, when a private in the Coldstre Guards during the war, died of periton at Oldham Royal Infirmary recently. Whitham won the Cross on July 31, It the opening day of the battle of Tpres. battalion was storming positions on r kern Ridge, and were held up by an enfil Ore from a machine-gun post. and his bravery enabled his comrades advance. Mr. Whltham, who leaves a widow six children, has been out of work, and bad to raise money on his medal. »f Oldham. His Victoria Cross, which he had dispc of when in search of work last year, ■placed on his coffin at the funeral. Cross had to be reclaimed by the adjul of the local Territorials. The sir bea were former Coldstream Guardsmen, whose regiment Private Wnitham was s Ing when he won the V.C. at Ypres.

"You should be equally ready to welcome home the prodigal son and the prodigal husbnud," said the Willesden magistrate to a woman. A man of 01, named William Johnson, was semeuced at the Mansion Uouse to three I months' hard labour for frequenting the iity Jur the purpuse of picking pockets. James S. Coward, who began commercial ■ life as a shoemaker at the bench and later became one of the best known boot manufacturers lv the United States, died leaving a fort tine of £071,373. George Ilookpr, aped elgluy-four, of Keiuilngton. S.E., and Loolsa Bthel Hampton. iiKcd seventy three, or Clapham, S.W., uvre married at the Brlxton register office. Many friends waited to congratulate tie-. "If the defendant (a bookmaker's clerk with 13 children) cannot pay his rent Iα the flat-racing season, which is the most lucrative period, how will ho be able to payin the 'over the sticks" season?" asked a solicitor, at Bow County Court. LILAC TROUSERS. Oxford and Cambridge, who set Wβ fashion for silver-grey flnannel trousere, are now- giving a fresh lead in the men's wear world by making a great run oa flannel trousers in shades of lilac, khaki, brown, biscuit, and even light green. Some of these are certainly a trifle eltravajant in hue, hut at the same time there is no mistaking the fact that shades ■ of brown and biscuit will be prominent. RUN OVER BY TRAIN. Having failed earlier to notice the approach of an express while he was walk- ■ ing on the line near Nottingham, a railway ■ employee fell flat between the metals, and . the train passed over him. Ills mates expected to find a mutilated corpse, but. although the tools he was carrying were smashed, the man was uninjured, and walked with his comrades to " their destination. t ' i TROTSKY'S SECRETARY KILLS ' HIMSELF. ' Russian communist circles were shocked ' when informed of the death by suicide of ' Michael Glassman, one of the most value* aides at Leon Trotsky, the soviet war minister, his secretary and confidant lor six years. Xo motive was assigned for i the act. Glassman, who was only 27 years . old. was given an Impressive military f funeral. t OLDEST PYRAMID BUILDER. v Archaeological discovery at Sakkara has , been further stimulated by the unearthing of a life-size statue in limestone of King Zoser, builder of the famous Step Pyramid, who reigned 7000 years ago. This is the first statue of the Third Dynasty ever found in position, and the y first statue of King Zrjser himself ever c discovered. n The statue was unearthed at the base of the Step Pyramid, and is in a good state dJ of preservation, with the head slightly IS chipped. if _____ j. 'WOMAN MOST BEAUTIFUL d AT 30. The days of the glorification of the young girl, to the exclusion of the more mature woman, are numbered, in the opinion of a number of Berlin artists, y modistes and milliners, to whom was put ;r women most beautiful?" Almost unanimously the answer was that the normal woman usually was most beauII tifu! between the nges of thirty and thirty. ■ n five. The "flapper" type received few votes, the judges expressing the opinion that their h - faces were for the most part too empty of >c expression. Ie _____ ir • 3 ARE ALL THE GREAT t. COMPOSERS GONE ? >c Signor Randeggor, once one of the most la popular masters at the Royal Academy or Music, was one day refused admittance to the artistes' room while a bis concert was going one. "But you must let mc in," he said to the doorkeeper, "I am taking part •n !, n the conpert " "'What is your nameV "Rnndeßger, l, "It isn't on the programme - ' . c "Indeed it is," said Rnndegger, "I am a> companyins one of my songs, , ' pointing to Accompanied by Composer," written under one of the songs. "I suppose if all right said tie doorkeeper dubiously. £ supposed £.r ~ — it- ~ gh TRY DOMESTIC SERVICE. » nt ,nrt lS , ht d , nushtcrs und « 21, her husband at and herself, occupied three rooms, eald _ woman at Edmonton in making . elalm for the possession of two rooms. Seven daughters, she added, slept in one room; two oj them worked at a factory. Mt "Why don't they go into domestic ser, im Ticer " asked Judge Crawford. "Much of the tis present overcrowding is because girls will not go into service, where they would get I7i the finest training to become wives and Ils mothers. Working in factories does not 110- make them good women." ,l e He made an order for possession of the two rooms, remarking that for seven girla sil. to s eep in one room was a shocking state to or things. n<l FATAL SHORT OUT. iad While taking a "short cut" at tlii Metropolitan Water Board works at Waltoawn on-Thames, Alfred Groom, a West Ham slater, was instantly killed. *Ed He was walking along some disused v-ns scaffolding when a coal skip, worked by a. ant the wall and knocked him to the ground ers 40ft below. in It was stated at the inquest that •rv. Groom, who leaves a widow and eight children, had only Just begun working oa __ the building. He had not been warned — of the danger from the crane. A verdict o£ death from misadventure was returned. HIS LIFE PUNISHMENT. "I think probably the fact that his br<* thers life is on his hands will be a sorrow to him all his life," said Mr. Bosanquet. the Commissioner, at Gloucester Assiu-s. He was binding over William Roon a lighterman, of Gloucester, who was found polity of the manslaughter of his brother Charles. lioon had been recommended to incrcy. A dispute had started over a s"M chain left by an elder brother, and Oiarli-s wanted to fight. He took a hntilu fn.m bid pocket ami placed it on tli« |.iivi-meuc. As he was Mrai-M.-iiinir lip Will""™ struck him on the Jaw. Hiarles teU >>«"* and his skull was fractured. th ». William said h- only pushed Ms brothc* ami tho man overbalanced. hi 3 He nulcl Charles took .i knife frcOT pocket and declared he felt like c , Charles was unconscious. __g|B