NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 43, 20 February 1926, Page 23

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

SCOOTER CAUSES BOY'S DEATH. A twelve-year-old Vancouver boy named Clayton Mcßay, riding a new scooter given him for a present, fell on the road and broke his neck. EX-CONVICT SHOT. James Tragg, alias James Jolly, ex-con-vict, was sent to a. Chicago gaol with four bullet wound* in Ms body, inflicted by defectives in a gum.battle, Guido Cerruti, shot through the lung by Tragg, was said toy physicians to 'have a.chance to recover. Tragg shot Oerruti when the la*ter came upon him and two componione as they were attempting to steal an automobile at Jones and O'Farrel Streets. COUPLE'S BEUABKABID SUICIDE. An amazing case of a married couple's suicide is reported from Beauvais, France. The man, aged 60, and his wife, aged 48, shut themselves up In their dwelling, drank a couple of pints of ram, and after setting' fire to the house 'went to bed. When the fire brigade arrived they found the inmates burned to death. The fire spread to several neighbouring workmen's dwellings, but was eventually got under control. TRAPPER HERO. For nursing his dying pal when others fled form the : smallpox-infested region, Al Smith, famous trapper of Otkokan, Qnt., received 1000 dollarss from a magazine publisher. His remark: "Pshaw, v 'taint nothing," when his heroic act was mentioned, has interested several" business men of Winnipeg, who . are determined that --the brave deed should receive further substantial recognition. MARRIED FOUR TIMES. , For the fourth time Mrs. Evelyn Fariss Bennett, former Follies beauty and moving picture star, of Tennessee, became a bride when at the home of her sister-in-law, Mrs. J, h. Billingsley; she re-married . her former husband, Raymond 6. Bennett, jun. She obtained a divorce from him three days before in Tampa, Florida. Mrs. Bennett appeared very happy, and said she felt she had done exactly the right thing in that neither of them had ever cared for anyone else. FATAIi OCCUPATION. The death of Mtee Marguerite Carlough Increased to' seven the number of former employees of the Umßted States Radium Corporation, of Orange, who, in three years, have died from poisoning attriIbuited to radio-active substances. County Physician Mairtiand, after an autopsy, gave the cause of Miss Carloug-h's death ac "chronic anaemia of the pernicious or regenerative type, due to the Injection of ■radio-active substances, mespthorium, radium and flheir decayed products. DIED FOR ANOTHER. .. James Alfred Durrant (44), of Fort Pitt. Street,-Chatham, was killed -n an effort to save the life of another man. N - Durrant was acting as temporary capr tain of the barge Farola, and was steering the vessel along the Medway under Rochester Bridge, when the mate was wiocked overboard by the blowing out of the foreSail, which he was lowering. Durrant ran forward, and leaned over the side to effect a rescue, but the wind blew another barge, which was going in the opposite direction, against the Farola, and before Durrant could either grab the man or draw 'inboard himself he was caught between the two vessels and killed, his neck being broken. , The mate, who could swim, was rescued by the other barge. Durrant left a widow and four children. MURDER CHARGE FAILS. Mabel Dal ton, aged 18, was charged at Carlisle recently with attempted suiciae and. with the murder of Elizabeth Jane Blaylock. ' Mr. Lightfoot, prosecuting, said the two girls drank poison after quarrelling wltn their sweethearts/ and he euomitted that the letters.written by the girls to the men showed that they had agreed to commit suicide together. 'Blaylock died the next day, and, as the survivor, Dal ton was charged with murder. : The magistrates ruled that the letters were inadmissible. Bobert Irving, a motor driver, said he was still prepared to marry Dalton. The .magistrates announced, amid ap l plause, that there was not sufficient evidence to send the case lor trial and discharged Dalton. HOME FIRES MAT GO' OUT. That fifty years hence home life will have disappeared and that people will virtually live in restaurants and hotels, is the prediction of Professor A. M. Lowe, a well known scientist of UverpooL The professor' prophesies that in 1976 present day types of ships will be replaced by giant hydroplanea which will skim along the surface ef the water at tremendous speed. Regarding clothes, the professor is of the opinion that fifty years from now cotton, silk and wool textiles will be'replaced by cheaper and , more durable forms of. vegetable fibre. The wardrobes of women will not be so large as now "because women, being by that time almost civilised, will not be swayed by every passing wave of fashion." Professor Lowe also envisages an era Of ugly factories built underground. There will be no more chimneys' belching forth smoke, and factory hands will be more polished ana better educated, as all the rough work then will be done by machinery.

GERMAN BREWERS. ~*~"' SPhe-torewere taxed -the best finaiicifllly among Germany's industrial enterprises daring tie year '1925, according to aa analysis o£ the dividends declared tSus fiir. : The brewery dividende averaged 12 per cent, with a maximum of twenty, which la unusual in an adimiifctedly poor business year. Tie average dividend for the bank* was 8 per cent, and for "tie street railways six. -SUBMARINE MOUNTAINS. The German research ship Meteor, whien. recently returned to Capetown after ftn oeeanographical cruise in the South. Atlantic, confirms the discovery of a submarine ■bank, 40 miles long, aoout 3.100 miles soath■west- of the Cape. The ridge, which has been named the Meteor BanK, is 11,400rc high at the topmost points, which are within 1600 ft from the surface of the sea. The Meteor also discovered two new submarine ranges, one off the African coast and the other off the South American coast, which breaks up under water currents. WOMAN. BURNED BY MASKED MAN. Mrs. Charles Siblay (40), living on a. ranch at Mercer (Oal.), was bound to a. chair by a masked' man who stripped her to the waist and\burned her back and shoulders with a iho't poker to force her to divulge the whereabouts of a letter she had received. The woman said the man focad the letter and left. The .woman was released from the bonds by her five-year-old child. When her husband came home he found her in a faint. She is expected to recover. TRAIN KIIXS . HOUNDS. Two hounds were killed by a train at a meet of the Kent West Street Harriers. The hunt was returning from a meet at Haeklinge, near Deal, when a fox wae , unearthed. With hounds and hunters in full cry, the fox led his pursuers across the low-lying marshlands towards Sandwich Bay, and . this took them across «he main line of the Southern Railway between. Deal end Sandwich, A train was passing. The driver isaw (both fox and hounds, sounded his whistle and attempted to slow down. The fox got clear, tint the engine dashet* into the pack. ' • XEMAI'S DIVORCE. " A Paris weekly relates "the exact incident" that led President Mustapha Kemal 'of Turkey to divorce his young, beautiful and advanced wife, Latife. * She was talking to the Italian ambassador when'she asked: "Hojv does feminism stand in-your country?" > "Feminism has made little progress," the ambassador replied. "In Italy.it means making homes and presenting husbands with fine, healthy children." "But how Dehind the times' all that is!" exclaimed Kemal's consort. This remark decided the question tor Kemal. He divorced his "modern," young wife. V THE SEAWEED HARVEST. Seaweed in Japan is a dinner delicacy— for the Japanese. In fact, the harvesting of seaweed is one of Japan's large industries. Of the many species of the weed, gathered from the bottom of the sea, the Japanese Tangle (Laminaria japonica) is most popular'" because of its flavour and refreshing taste 1 . This weed grows abundantly in the cold seas off Hokkaido and is harvested during the summer months. The yearly harvest off Hokkaido alone is estimated at 200,000,000 pounds. While this seaweed is relatively cheap, food chemists claim it is very nutritious and contains much "Vitamine A," the food element lacking in polished rice. UWE WASTE EVERYTHING:" After 25 years spent in studying industrial management, Henry Ford asserts "we still waste more than we use/ Writing in the January issue of "System," Mr. Ford declares: •"We waste men, we waste materials, we waste everything. • "Consequently we foave to work too hard and too long to accomplish what in the end amounts to very little. "But at least we are learning that above everything we need management—that no matter how much science we have, no matter how much machinery we have, no matter how much power-we have, we cannot get anywhere without the kind ol management which extends from the smallest detail to the whole purpose of what you are about.',' . CHARTER OF THE YOUNGER SON. . "An unromantic legislature has set a term to the* long reign of the eldest son as the sole heir to the family mansion and estates," says '"T.P.'s Weekly." "After the New Tear he will have to share his heritage with, not only his younger brothers, but with his sisters as well. Thus will the term 'son and heir' lose much of the significance with which it has been infested not less in real life than in fiction. , - . "At tfie end of last year all the ancient forms of devolution will disappear, and with them the difference that has hitherto distinguished the rules of succession applying to 'real , property from those applying to property of other kinds. In their place will arise, by operation of tfhe Administration of Estates Act, J925, entirely new rule 3 of inheritance, in eases of intestacy, which will apply, indiscriminately, to property of every-kind, and -will set the children of. a deceased person upon an equal footing without regard to age or sex." COUNTRY DANCES POPULAR. There has been a sudden country-wide revival of the old English country dances, and a. great all-England folk dance festival ushered in the New Year in the grand hall of London University, in South Kensington. The revival is bringing the morry dance and the sword dance into their own again, says a report by the English Folk Dance Society, which asserts these dances are being taken up with enthusiasm by tens of thousands- of young people throughout England. The society is compelled to refuse hundreds of applications from would-be learners because of its inability to secure enough ballroom space. Women are taking up sword flancing enthusiastically, many with the purpose of teaching it to bey scouts, girl guides and members of similar organisations. Scottish reels are also regaining favour, mainly because of the partiality of the Duchess of York for them. '•Earl Bathurst, who at CI still follows the hounds, likes jazz and many other modern things, recently delivered himself of the opinion, that Jα dress -women have gone altogether too far. "Jly advice to girls is to avoid the vanity bag," said Lord Bathurst, when ■ presenting prizes at a Cirencester school.