NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume 246, Issue 246, 16 October 1926, Page 23

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

One of the King's characteristics is punctuality, and he certainly should have every assistance from the clocks at Buck ingham'Palace. There are more than a hundred, and each one requires windlne weekly. He should have every assistance from them, but he does not, because the majority are more remarkable for theii valuable antiquity than for accuracy. A concrete building of eighty-five storeys, 573 feet in height. Is to be erected In Detroit, Michigan. Four of its floors will oe below ground level. The structure will oe the highest in the world with the exception of the all-steel Eiffel Tower, .which reaches a height of 954 feet. The tallest jf America's "skyscrapers" at present 's the Woolworth building in New York, which is 792 feet high. In some portions of Egypt eacn Borne has outside it a big baked-mud urn shaped like i teacup and standing on the small end and the rims, or lip. outstanding to a noticeable legrce. These huge things are beds to be used in the hot summer, and at night the whole family climbs in and goes to sleep, confident that snakes, scorpions, and such things cannot crawl up the slippery sides 3f the immense cut). LIFE FOR CIGARETTE CARD. Running across Stepney Road, Scarborough, to collect cigarette cards fro™ soldiers who were coming into the town from the Racecourse Camp, Douglas Foster, ised 7, was knocked down by a motor car ilriven by Second-Lieut. Erie Norman Walker, of Keighley. The boy died -soon after reaching hospital. A SINGER'S FORTUNE. Zer.atello, the famous tenor who impressed Covent Garden audiences with his "Otello," is among the most wealthj singers in the world. He owns a castle outside Verona, in which he has erected a Mucert hall, a private chapel, and a shooting gallery. He has also endowed a school of music in his native city. GIPSY FEUD FIGHT. A gipsy feud broke out at Mitcham, Surrey. Sharp instruments, as well as fists, were used, and several people were hurt, one man having stitches put into his face at the local hospital. Four people were ..rrested. The police raided certain gaming fetalis, and so many arrests were made foi various reasons that at one time the cell accommodation at Mitcham Police Statior was inadquate for the prisoners. BATHING ROMANCE. Behind the marriage, at the Church ol Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane, London, ol Mr. Paul West, an American, and Miss Nancy Ackerley, the beautiful daughter ol Mr. A. Roger Ackerley, of Richmond Surrey, a director of Messrs. Elders am Fyffes, is a romance which began in t bathing pool in America. Miss Ackerlej went some time ago on a pleasure trii across the Atlantic and visited Cristobal the port at the Atlantic entrance to thi Panama Canal, and met her future husbant at a bathing party. The ceremony will bi followed by a big reception at the Hote Cecil, and the. young couple will spend thei honeymoon motoring? in Scotland. AMERICA'S FIRST BIBLE. There is a romantic story of the firs Bible (dated 1663) printed on Amerlcai soil. It was not in English, although i was the work of an Englishman, John Eliot a graduate of Cambridge. Eliot went te America in 1631, and devoted his life te work among the Massachusetts Indians. Tc meet them on their own ground, he not onlj learnt their language but, with immense labour—many of the words contain thirty or more letters—reduced it to writing, and translated the Bible for them. H.e achieved the success his zeal deserved, but with the coming of the white men in ever greater numbers, the tribe decayed and finally died about 1860, leaving not even a tradition ol its language. The only memorial of thi* vanished race is Eliot's Bible in a tongue which to-day no living soul can understand. LYNCH LAW WANING IN AMERICA. America does at last seem to be getting •the better of lynch law, for the average number of these mob murders has sunk from about 150 a year in the final quarter of last century to, according to a report just published, nine in the first half of 1926. It is not quite so certain as many people suppose that the term "lynch law" really perpetuates the summary "justice" which Judge Lynch inflicted on the Loyalists during the American War of Independence. Though his misdeeds were real enough, he had plenty of rivals in the early colonising days, and many authorities prefer to derive the term from the rapid method of dealing with outlaws at Lynch's Creek, Carolina, while others have sought its origin in England itself. ■WEIGHTY COINAGE. In 1797 Matthew Boulton. of Soho, received the Royal Appointment to execute new copper coinage. Particulars of the coins show a definite attempt to make them serve a double purpose. The coins were twopenny pieces, penny pieces, and halfpenny pieces. The first-named, it was announced, would weigh 2oz each, and eight would measure one foot; the penny pieces loz, and seventeen measure two feet ; while the halfpenny pieces would weight only Joz, with a diameter of one inch each. In the eight years succeeding 1797-ISOS no less than 4000 tons of copper coin were manufactured to the order of the Government, at a nominal value of, roughly, £800,000. Luckily for the collectors of the penny-in-the-slot meters today, the present coinage is not quite so weighty.

Glass flowers made in natural sizes at arranged in groups and clusters in mi rored bowls of pure white crystal are tl latest novelty in interior decoration. The: charming novelties attracted ndmirntic at a famous Parisian dressmaking nous Wheat, ears, marguerites, and lilac wei three of the blooms so reproduced. Grouse shooting is one of the very fe forms of sport proficiency which have bee celebrated on a tombstone. On the tomb • Jonathan Telford, of Craggy Ford, in Cue berland. it was recorded : "Deceased wt one of the best moor grouse-shooters in tt North of England. In the time of his shoo ing he bagged 59 grouse in seven doubl shots." A country rector has adopted an origin: way of raising funds for the British an Foreign Bible .Society. All the eggs laid o the Day of .Rest by the rector's hens at sold for the benefit of that organisatioi and last year a sum of £3 was raised i this way. presumably on the good old prii ciple. "the better the day the better th egg." A DOGBITE REMEDY. In a prosecution at Cardiff of a man fo keeping a dangerous dog the complainant, hawker, said he pulled a hair from th dog's tail, singed it. and put it ou th wound to stop the bleeding. This i believed by some people to be the prope remedy for a dog bite. FATA- SHOTS IN A CAFE. The proprietor of a cafe at Troyei France, entered a rival establishmen armed with a revolver and threatened t kill the proprietor. A corporal of the 21s Regiment, who attempted to disarm hin was shot through the head and fell deat and in the struggle the landlord's wife wa killed and the landlord seriously woundec CAT'S EYES STONED OUT. Joseph W. Roper, aged 10, of Thun scoe. was at Doncaster fined £10 or tw months' imprisonment for cruelty to a ca It was stated that Roper, with other: stoned a cat, which was afterwards foun with an eye hanging out and bleeding froi d wound on the head. Roper refused t say who were the others who stoned tl cat. "RANJI'S" RICE ESTATE IN IRELAND. The Maharajah Jam Sahib of Xawan gar, better known as Prince Ranjitsinh; the famous cricketer, intends to experime: with the growing of rice in Connemara, C Galway, where he has bought Ballynhim Castle. He thinks that the climate is wi suited to rice growing, which demands moist atmosphere. PARROT GIVES ALARM. Aroused by the screeching of a parrot, maid at the Quarry Hotel, Cookha Berks, went downstairs, nnd disovered tl burglars had broken into the place a that money and property were missii Later two men were arrested at Bexl and Beaconsfield. They described themsel - as waiters, and were committed for trial Maidenhead in connection with the affai DRAWN FROM DEATH. An exciting rescue of a wife by her h band was witnessed at Barry (Wales) X: way Station. During a rush for positii while a train from Cardiff was approach the station, Mrs. Mabel Potter, of Fl< Street, Cardiff, was pushed on to the ri way line. She rolled over several tin when the train was only a short distai away. Her legs were across the met when Mr. Potter leapt on the line a dragged his wife to safety. GAOL FOR CRUELTY TO CAT At West Ham, Patrick Feathers, of Forest Street, Forest Gate, E., was su moned for causing unnecessary suffering a cat by inciting dogs to worry it. It v stated that in Oakhurst Road, Forest Ga a cat was being worried by two dogs, c that Feathers, who was in a doorway, p vented the cat from leaving the pla Martin Sharp, of 55. Forest Road, For Gate, said that when the cat tried to out someone kicked it back and said: " on dogs—seize her!" Feathers was s to gaol for one month with hard labour HEIRS NOT TO MOVE BODY Mr. William A. Glynn, of Seagrove, S view, Isle of Wight, one of the found of the Royal Isle of Wight Agricultu Society, who left £40.428. directed that did not wish to .be iburied in St. Hele churchyard, "as the vaults are full water and the churchyard is undraine As the Glynn family vaults in Corny are full, he wished his body to be but in a lead coniu. placed in a tomb ab the ground at the upper corner above tennis lawn at Seagrove. "I express most earnest hope that it will be alio' to rest in peace there," he added. MAST BLOWN AWAY. Returning from the Royal Yorks: Yacht Club's regatta at Bridlington 12-ton yacht Piccolo was caught in a sq off Spurn Head and dismasted. The n snapped off, and all the vessel's cat collapsed overboard, and the ma Albert Leggett, and the crew of four i in some peril. A distress signal hoisted on a boathook, and the Spurn boat quickly reached the damaged ya The crew meanwhile had succeeded in el ing the wreckage and recovering the can The lifeboat took her in tow to Grimst FLYING AT 91. Probably the oldest woman in world to travel by air, and certainly oldest person who has ever journeyed i London to Paris by aeroplane. is > Esther Rodrigues, who was born in Fr; 91 years ago. She was a passenger one of the big air liners of Imperial ways, Limited. Mme. R ,<lrigucs. who been staying with relatives at Mlllbr Montpelier Lane. Iliu'ligatc, since 1!>19 going back to France r« sp<>nil the rem der of her days with her people, has never flown before." :i friend tol. representative of the "Weekly I'lspat. "and we thought for a woman of her v. it would !»• much more comfortable much quicker fur her to travel ;..\ air t to undertake the strain of :■ train and t journey." TREES MADE INTO TEACUI An industry which has only one f.i.-l to represent il has hidden itself for i years in the little Norfolk market tout Tberford. From the factory thousand? articles of pulp ware are turned out ol week and sent to all parts of tin' wo Yet few people in the vitiligo. e\. workers at the factory, really know w it produces. The pulp ware industry < sists in converting Norwegian pine ti into ail kin.ls of vessels which look pottery, but are unbreakable. Every k of household utensil th.it U made in ell is made in pulp ware, from toilet sets i tubs fo drinking ruujrH and soup ptal Perhaps the most interesting article is miner's helmet. About 20.000 helmets i sold every year to Australia, South Afri and India, as well as to English miner*.