NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 165, 14 July 1928, Page 3 (Supplement)

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

BIG HOSPITAL GIFTS. At a meeting of the directors of the .Dundee Royal Infirmary recently it was announced that Mr. F. B. Sharp, manufacturer, of Dundee, living at Cupar, Fife, and his sister, Miss Christina Sharp, had given annuity bonds for £14,000 and £6020 respectively for the further endowment of the new maternity hospital. Mr. F. B. Sharp and his late brother, Mr. R. B. Sharp, gave £30,000 two years ago to build and equip the hospital, and last year the former and his sister Christina made an endowment donation of £28,000. THE SOBBING HUSBAND. At North London Police Court, a husband said he had entered into an agree* ment with his wife never to go out anywhere except with her, and to go home directly after business. Mr. Basil Watson, K.C-, the magistrate: . „ y° u understand what you were signing? Husband (sobbing): Yes, sir. He said that although his wife promised to make him happy and comfortable she had cut lus head open with a chopper. Watson granted the wife a separation order and £2 a week. SULTAN'S GOOD LUCK. Nature gave a curious fillip to the sucSfl? ° f - o ;, tour which *ke 18iyear-old ultan or Morocco made of his dominions ™ en ,, he arrived at Mogador : recently. Ihe Mogador region every year lives in deadly peril of drought, and when rain does not fall abundantly at the proper fame, ruin and famine face the natives. 1 Before the Sultan's visit Mogador had been parched, but no sooner did he set j lus foot in the town than the flood-gates I of heaven were opened and the rain fell unceasingly for three hours. The natives, drenched but happy, hold the rainfall as a sign that the new Sultan's reign will be a long and fruitful one. DUKE AS LABOURER. The Duke of Argyll, who is in residence at Inveraray Castle, Argyllshire, aided in the erection of a stone tower to house the peal of bells belonging to All Saints' Episcopal Church, Inveraray. When work was in full swing on the tower the Duke, who isi 56 years of age, did his share. In if leeVefi * h ? carried stones S!£t£L\£ arroW ' *** did other fork, observing the same conditions and hours of labour as the other men. The inhabitants of Inveraray are very proud of their ducal quarryman-cum-bricklayer's labourer. ? stated the duke when working U^ ly lunched at the castle and returned in time to start again with other men. He was generally seen without coat, his shirt sleeves rolled up, and a pipe in his mouth. PEARLS FROM HERRING SCALES. +htw^l P enterprising industrialists in Canada are looking back with satisfaction on the results of the first season« working of a unique plant for tte erection of which they were respon+W" «. Canadian scientist discovered ™ e scales of herrings could, when properly treated and compressed, be conpearls of such remarkable lustre that they would defy all but expert examination. A factory was accordingly (built at Nanaimo, British Columbia, and has now closed after treating over 100,0001b of fish scales and beautiiying with these simple ingredients many society belles both in Canada and the Th ? °P erati °nß of the plant will be resumed next autumn, when ** exteaded tr ade will be GUNMEN'S MILLIONS. The leaders of organised crime in Chicago cannot be unseated, stated the Illinois Association for Criminal Justice in ft report on Chicago crime. There existed a powerful union of gambling, bootlegging, vice, and political interests which was earning the gunmen and their protectors £2,700,000 yearly Twenty years of "big business" had enabled the vice and liquor lords to retire as millionaires. The report added:— Organised vice is the cradle in which the overlords of beer warfare are nurtured. Its operations are persistent under the same chieftains through a period of changing Governments and administrations. The importance of the report is seen by the fact that the president of the Illinois Bar is > head of the association which has presented £12,000 ROMANCE. A romance which ended tragically .has brought a fortune estimated to be at least £12,000, and possibly as much as £20,000, to a young Swiss girl named Madeline Francis, living in the historic little town of Moudon, near Lausanne. In 1924, James Brand Simmons, an £nglish mercantile marine captain, left Australia, where he had amassed a considerable fortune* for Moudon to many lime. Francis, the widowed mother of Madeline. On arriving , there he found that bin fiance waa dead. A few days later Captain Simmons, who had previously executed a will in Austra- : lia, leaving all his property to his relatives, i himself fell ill. He called in a lawyer and i made another will, this time appointing i Madeline his sole beneficiary. The will ■ was strongly opposed by Captain Sim- j mons relatives, but after four years' liti- \ Ration the Australian Courts pronounced i in its favour. , DOCTOR TRICKED. > A West End (London) doctor believes ! that one of his patients has made him the victim of a confidence trick for a large sum of money. A burly man "from the Dominions" was successfully treated by the doctor for an illness. He came back and told the doctor of his interest in racing and his knowledge of good things for ' the Derby. He prevailed upon the doctor to give him a cheque for £50, which, he gid, he was gomg to invest on the race He came back again, this time accompanied by two sons," also burly men. When the doctor protested that he had invested quite enough money on this year s Derby, the man "from the Dominions seized him and, savintr he bail booked a big bet for the more money So threatening were the man and his "sons" that the doctor%avl Lte dav T' 7 h f h , wa * cashed ®thl same day. Ihe doctor's suspicions wer« SSSSL Sfi from , k .

SOOT IS RARE IN THE STATES. It took Harry Langdom's man three days to obtain some coot for the well-known comedian'* First Jfational Pathe comedy, "Throe's a Crowd." Gas takes the place of coal in houses, hotels and factories in Hollywood. Consequently when some soot waa required, the property man had to make inquiries. In the end, he sent to a brick factory some miles away. Enough soot was obtained by scraping the inside of a dmnsf. JUMP FROM 'PLANE. In his anxiety to escape the attention of reporters and to reach tha motor ear that was waiting for him, Capt. M. Lowenstein, the Belgian millionaire, jumped out of his special aeroplane on his arrival at Philadelphia recently and narrowly escaped being hit by one of the propellers. As it was his hat was knocked off, sa the propellers were still revolving at considerable speed, although the engine had been shut off. The pilot admitted that Capt. Lowenstein had had a "close call.' KILLED BY A BULL. "He had had a battle with this Wpl a week previously, and no dodbt the buT owed him a grudge," said tha coroner. Sk i Aylraer Lewis, at the inquest at Onw iwfijj Shropshire, on Charles Thomas Ebbh as agricultural worker. A verdict that' Evans died through being tossed and by a bull was returned. Evans' ribs were crushed in on both sides and his breastbone was broken. The bull nlmnat stripped him tore his clothes shreds. He was found dead at 2 ajn. spinney. The farmer said that ha pro-" posed to kill the bull. MAYOR CHARGED. Charges that he robbed a blind Boy of his war pension of close upon £150 were laid against M. Natalias Domes, Mayor of the historic town of Bailleni, who was accused of having converted to his own use £24,000 destined for the reconstruction of the war ruins of his town. Dumez, who gave himself up to tha police at Dunkirk after a week in Paris, daring he declared he lost large sums at gambling clubs and at the races, had charge of the moneys paid regularly by the State to the blind boy, now 16 years of age. The boy lost his sight aa the re-' suit of a shell which burst in J fha mailt street of Baillenl in 1914. ~ > RAT-POISON MURDER. The Zurich police recently aiTested- # woman employed as the manageress of an hotel and a' man stated to be her" lover on a charge of murdering the woman's husband five years ago by giving" him arsenic. After the sudden death of her husband, which was attributed fa natural causes, the woman obtained bm? situation in the hotel, where walf constantly pestered by her worthless lever for money. When she told him that aha would have nothing more to do with Vt threatened to inform the polic# that she had mixed rat poison with ImC husband's food. An order for the exhiK mation of the husband's body waa'tnadfeNEW MINING RUSHf . stage is set for & new mining nriK m Jn orthern Manitoba, one may anr» pass the recent Red Lake in tha opinion of Mr. J. C. Rogers, a coMraltii* geologist who recently returned to Wmrii* peg after an examination of tha Cold ■Lake and Reindeer Lake districts. Two enormous copper and zinc properties ax# already under development there, and, with much territory Btffl to be explored prospectors have been steadily drifting northward through The Pas, Manitoba. ■Keindeer liake, already reached by proa* pec tors, straddles the c £ewan border on the southern edge o£ the Barrens, and is perhaps 500 miles by water from the end of the railways

BEES ESCAPE. Thousands of bees, which escapeS fromf the box in which they were to trnf to Scotland, caused great excitement at Euston Station, LondOn. They were par# of a consignment of nearly 100 boxes, they swarmed out of a chink in tile lid* No one knew exactly what to do. " Th<y are quite young, and won't sting at this time of year," said one porter, posing as an expert, but no one felt inclined to do anything. After buzzing round, a large number headed for the open air and left the station. The rest gathered round the boxes and tried to find theap ■ray into them. Hundreds swarmed on the pavement and roadway, where thef were trampled under foot. Four hoax* later a large number were still fly iwff round.

GERMAN STUDENTS IN LONDON. Sixteen German students from tte — se l reder ick School at Berlin recentir vested London, as the guests of the fiociefcr of Friends and Toe H. They wWa& scholarship lads of 18 and 19. There W bttle to distinguish the German drcssed ™ tweeds and pins fours. fcajTß. average British schoolboy. 'Tha unusual touch was their musical —- ments, half the lads carrying viotin* gmtare, or banjos. When they stood outf* side Regnal House to be photographed, th* musicians played and the rest sang lustily il tfc 3,1(1 bstened. "Th* w .the first tune that Toe H has rmr facipated in the scheme, though last yea* a similar visit was arranged by tha SoaSr of friends alone, Major Skasr, of Tok 18 m charge of the trnuunai£ aaid m receiving them. "Our 2 encourage bet*s genemtions of the tiro ©oS

RAID ON STAMP COLLECTORS. „ f Protests were made by Parw stamp dealers as a result, = raid made by the police at the behest of 1 authorities upon an m tCTnational congreasof philatelist held . "®* hotel. The Tnlapd TteTOnnfc authorities in France collect a tax upoa. gL-ftj? between stamp coHe^SitJifw the Knpresßion that eerta« iSt niw; Cen ? al Europe ?l new -*itho«* thJ wll 7 ' ihe raided Tin XI, -® „ , f 1 of , toe delegates turn out iv n r ßelMd several thousand stam P s - philately);? Protested that they would change i*s? the foun aing of an international stamp exchange in Paris if they H B *?. j_ subjected to such inquisitorial methods, and would establish it instead: in Jbondon.

girl outwits REDS. —A romantic story attaches to MHv . za Vronsky, a 17-year-old Russian f: * r 1° recent, y arrived in England with ner father. 11. Vronsky, Mas director of the musical academy at Kieff, and wish--ing that his daughter should complete her musical education, requested Lunarcharsky,. Soviet Minister of Fine Arts to give permission for her to travel to Paris. This was not given, because Lunarcharsky refuses to allow Russian artists of promise to leave the country lest they become tainted with anti-Bolshevik ideas. Eventually, however, M. Vronsky, obtained a forged statement, purporting to come from a doctor, stating that his daughter must travel abroad for her healtUFor himself he obtained, a few weeks later, permission to leave for Milan—the Bolsheviks never allowing, except under exceptional circumstances, all the membeni of one family to travel abroad at the Mine . '; I time. To obtain the nocessarv money travel, M. Vronsky sold a pianoforte 3"%® £100 to a leading Communist of Kieff but ' even this man had to pretend to be Boot. and M. Vronsky was compelled to he left him the instrument as a Tirr«iiii-i ; At Biarritz an Englishwoman hf iil Vila