NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 192, 15 August 1925, Page 23

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

According to a Moscow message, a new locomotive, which is now undergoing te3ts, consumes less than one-fourth the usual amount of oiL

Triplets, all boys, have been born to Mrs. A. Y. Last, of George Street, mouth, 21, wife of an unemployed butcher, also 21, who already has two children.

Finding two men breaking into the Cooperative Stores at Stony Stratford, Policeconstable Dillard seized one, handcuffed him to some railings, and then went alter and captured the other.

Whooping cough contracted from her grandchildren caused the death from heart failure, brought on by a fit of coughing, of Mrs. E. A. Trussler (72), of Twickenham.

Mr. S. Collier, aged 76, a Cardiff survivor of Lord Roberts' famous march to Kandahar, has been awarded a special life pension of 8/ per week in respect of that campaign.

A manuscript copy in the Persian language of many of the tales from the "1001 Nights" has been discovered in a Leningrad library. It dates back to the fifteenth century.

A jackal entered Kallghat, a crowded suburb of Calcutta, walked into a hut, and carried off an Indian baby who was recovering from smallpox. Traces of blood were found in the roadway, but the child was not saved. "If I do not come back, come and fetch mc!" said Frederick Wells, as he left Brentwood, Long Island, to try out a new racing car. The car overturned a mile from the start, and Wells was killed.

Mr. Henry Smith, of Argyle Street. Burnley, who will be 86 next month, has been Informed that he has been awarded the Meritorious Service Medal. It Is 41 years since Mr. Smith left the Army, after 26 years' service, 22 of which were spent abroad. Mrs. Thacker, of Spilsby, Lines., whose fours sons recently celebrated their golden weddings, has become a great-great-grand-mother by the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. William Brown, of Payne Hill Farm, Slaidburn, Yorkß. POISON IN MISTAKE FOR MEDICINE. Wishing to relieve his cough, Ernest Jacobs, a 75-year-old porter of Hastings, left his bed and went to the mantelshelf on which were a number of tins. In the darkness he mistook a tin of rat poison for the vaseline tin. His son, later in the night, answered Jacobs cries, and found the tin of rat poison almost empty. Jacobs died within a few hours. LION AND LIONESS FIGHT TO DEATH. There were all the thrills of "nature red In tooth and claw" about a fight to the death between a lion and a lioness at Bostock and WombwelTs menagerie at Cardiff. Wallace, a fine type of African lion, had It appears, been allowed to enter the cage of Jnno, a young lioness, but at once sprang at her and seized her by the throat. Attendants, with all possible speed, put an end to the fight, but Juno had then been so badly mauled that it was thought advisable for a veterinary surgeon to put an end to her sufferings. The death of Juno is a big loss to the menagerie. OVER-DRESSED. A man named Mark Bree, aged 77, wearing two Jackets, two waistcoats, two pairs of trousers, two pairs of socks and a muffler, dropped dead while delivering handbills from house to house In Luton. At the Inquest the coroner found that death was due to the effect of the heat on a degenerate heart. The dead man was a bachelor, and lived alone. In his possession were a 10/ Treasury note. £2 4/6 in sliver and 8d In coppers. At his cottage in Hitchln Road over £12 in silver was found hidden under the bed, in drawers and other places. A Post Office Savings Bank book gave him a credit balance of over £80. VIOLENT ATTACK ON AN OFFICE BOY.

An attack upon a 14-year-old boy in a Manchester moneylender's office had sequel at the local police court, when Charles Rupert Clarke, of Stretford, was remanded on a charge of attempted murder. It was stated that Manchester and Liverpool were scoured by detectives after the attack, and also Haydock Park race meeting. Accused, however, surrenderea at the local police station. The Injured boy is said to have been lerc temporarily in charge of the office during the manager's absence. According to his own story, a man entered the office ana struck him on the head with a blunt instrument, wrapped in paper. The boy appeared In Court with a bandaged head and an arm in a sling. ALARMING HOTEL FIRE. Exciting escapes were made from the Temperance Hotel In Devizes early In the morning, after an outbreak of firs had been discovered. Two soldiers escaped from a front bedroom window down a rope of sheets, while the proprietress, Mrs. Haggar, her son, and a maid crawled to safety along the top of a wall. Eleven people were in the building at the time, and all are believed to have escaped, though four guests were still unaccounted for. By clambering out of a back bedroom window and crawling along a wall, Mrs. Haggar, her son, and the servant reached the studio window of a photographer's premises. The photographer smashed the glass, and lifted the three people through, the servant and the boy being slightly cut. Two fire brigades succeeded in restricting the outbreak to the hotel.

"Publicans are losing a large part of their business by not supplying food as well as drink for their customers." — Chairman of Kingston magistrates.

A man who had the doubtful distinction of being the oldest inmate of a prison in the British Empire has died in Toronto gaol, aged 104. He was a man without means, who was allowed to stay at the gaol as a guest.

"I do not like the cadging for sixpences," said the Dean of Peterborough, in regard to the fee charged to cathedral visitors.

"nor have I much sympathy for the opulent gentry who sail up in Rolls Royces and manoeuvre them to dodge the pay table."

LODGING HOUSE TRAGEDY. Joseph Mills, pavement artist, Indicted at Chester Assizes for the murder of Emily Hargreaves, in a Norwich lodging-house, was found not guilty and discharged upon the lesser issue of manslaughter, tne prosecution intimating lt was not suggested he intended killing the woman.

Mills, in evidence, said he hit her because she came home rowdy and swearing. He heard a thud as she fell, but did not know whether she struck the bedpost or the wall. CHILD KILLED IN MOTHER'S ARMS. A 15-months-old boy was killed In his mother's arms, and his mother had both legs broken, in a collision between a motorcar and a motor-cycle at the Junction, of a new nrterial road at Sldcup. The mother and child—Mrs. Payne and Richard Payne, of Eltham—were in a sidecar attached to the motor cycle, which was driven by Mr. Payne. The cycle was smashed, but Mr. Payne was not Injured. DOES NOT PAT FINES. When Herbert J. Brlstow, of Hampstead, was summoned for driving at 34 miles an hour in the Outer Circle, Regent's Park, he told the Marylebone magistrate that, although his employer was in the car, and he was driving under his directions, the employer would not pay the fine. Mr. Hay Halket (in surprise) : Why? Bristow: Because his name Is Cohen, for one thing, and he does not pany any fines. (Laughter.) Magistrate: Very well, pay 20/. DAGGER DEATH TEST. That he had directed his executors to plunge a Etiletto into his heart after his death was revealed by Sir George Greenwood in presiding at Caxton Hall, Westminster, at a meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Premature Burial. A school friend of his, a great surgeon, he said, had insisted on this being done. Miss Emily Akes, honorary secretary, said that a man whose name was a household word in England had once been placed in a coffin as dead, and was about to be buried, but was found to be alive and had lived for twenty yea-- after. TWO GIRLS KILLED. Lacey Frederick Besant (37), a married man with five children, was, at Shrewsbury Assizes, sentenced to nine months* imprisonment in the second division for the manslaughter of two girls at Hlnstock, Salop, on May 17. The evidence showed that Besant was driving round a corner on his wrong side at an excessive speed and ran into the girls. Mr. Justice Horridge said he hoped the case would be a warning to others. Motorists must realise that foot passengers had an equal right to the highway. RICKETS FROM CHAIRS I At the meeting of the Billerlcay Rural Council, Mr. J. Markham complained that the seats in the council room were too hard and after members had sat in them for several hours they suffered from rickets. (Laughter.) If new seats could not be provided out of the rates, he suggested that each member should provide a chair with different coloured cushions. (Laughter.) A member suggested that they should get used to sitting on seats without cushions because, according to the Vicar of Romford, there would be no cushions ia Heaven. (Laughter.) A committee Is to consider the matter. SOCIALIST CLUB SINGS NATIONAL ANTHEM. A reference to the Prince of Wales' tout by a speaker In Glasgow resulted in an indignant outbreak of hooting and booing. The audience rose and sang the National Anthem, and the meeting was abruptly closed. It was announced to the members of the Gllmour Hill Socialistic Club that Mr. Sidney Webb, ex-President of the Board of Trade, had been selected as Socialist candidate for the Lord Rectorship of Glasgow University from among four names put forward, the others being Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Lord Haldane, and Mr. Bernard Shaw. The scene developed at the close of the meeting, when a vote of thanks to the chairman was being proposed. DROWNED UNDER A CAR, While William Smith (IS) was fishing from the banks of the Thames, near 'Beasmcmc College, Runnymede, Egham, a motor car, in which were the Rev. Edward Stukeley, Vicar of Dinton, Aylesbnry, ana his wife, swerved, dashed through some wooden railings, and knocked Smith, into the river. The car also plunged Into the water. Smith was pinned beneath the car ana drowned. Mr. and Mrs. Stukeley remained In the car, and were rescued with ropes. The ca_ was then dragged ashore. Mr. Stukeley promised a Coroner's Jury, at Englefleld Green, that he would not drive a car again. The jury had expressea the view that he was not a fit and pro pcs person to drive. The Coroner said the evidence seemed to show that Mr. Stukeley got Into a tlgat corner and lost his head. WIFE'S BODY IN WELL. Returning from work, Mr. Cuff, Reder*ham Tynfield, near Andover, found the house locked and his wife. Mrs. Ellen Elizabeth Cuff, missing. The following day her body was found in a deep disused well close by. . Subsequently Mrs. Helen Hill. «**£*£ ham House, near Andoven who P^ Mr. Cuff as a «***«■£"£?„_,'. parents. car to inform the dead « who live at ?«-*£!*£ Qn si(Je of the ~/!__%£__4 Mrs - Hill beins the road and over. kU lf'the invest on Mrs. Cuff it was 1a fiat she had been suffering from Stat aUment which distressed her, but sha an ~—er threatened to harm herself. *_ verdict of suicide while of unsound /mind !~» returned. [ _* *»• Inquest on Mrs. Hill, the Verdict ,„_ accident— death.