NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 171, 21 July 1928, Page 3 (Supplement)

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

FORTY ICEBERGS IN ONE DAY. Between 40 and 50 icebergs were seen in one day by the Cunard liner Ansonia, which recently arrived at Plymouth from Montreal. She made the parage via the Strait of Belle Isle, being the first of the season to do so- _ Fog caused the liner to be 30 hours late in reaching Plymouth, one day's run being under 100 mile's owing to the density of log. RAZOR ATTACK IN GANG FIGHT. A tight between members o: a racing known as tnc "Wharton Gang.'"" at Islington, caused great alarm to the crowd leaving the Caledonian Market. Outside the gates a number of men quarrelled and came to b.o'.vs. A razor was produced and one man—Joseph Hughes, of Islington —-was seriously injured. Police surrounded the men and made many arrests. Hughes was taken to the Poyal rs*orthern Hospital. Hp was cut about the head and an artery m his arm was severed. WOMAN STOWAWAYS WIRELESS. A world s record has been created by a w oman stowaway. On a voyage from America of the George Washington, five stowaways were discovered on the arrival of steamer at Plymouth. One was a well-dressed woman, who was found when the liner was held up by tog in the Hudson Kiver. She was landed in a pilotboat, and later sent a wireless message expressing her appreciation of the kindness ot the ships officers and thanks for the meals served during the fog. OYSTERS SING TOO MUCH. What a theme for a poet! "The Song of the Oyster. Off Hatteras, Xorth Carolina. they were humming so merrily in the month of May that certain wireless underwater experiments were abandoned. The delicate mechanism was put out of gear bv the noise of the bivalves, which resembled a person humming a tune. The wireless experimentalists applied to the Bureau of lisheiies lor relief, but that Government ofnee declared that it had no remedy that would make the oysters silent if" thev wished to sing. PLANE DRIVEN BACKWARDS. Ihe spectacle of an airplane drifting backward while its propeller cut into a gale at the rate of 50 miles an hour was witnessed at the Curtiss field aerodrome, .New i ork, last mouth. Edward Devereaux. veteran pilot, throttled his motor down from 1600 to 500 revolutions a minute and clung to the '"stick" while the storm blew the 'plane backward at what seemed to observers about 15 miles an, When the wind moderated suddenlv the ship swooped downward 500 feet, but Devereaux righted her and made a perfect landing. INGRATITUDE AND MURDER. The whole community of Deighton. ivansas. has been shocked and enraged I '*, , e brutal murder of a doctor by bank robbers. It appears that the bandit gang had come from Colorado, where ther had held up a bank and had shot and "killed two of the officials. In the course of that robbery one bandit was wounded. On arrival at Deighton they abducted the doctor in his car and compelled him to attend to the wounded man. After the doctor had : tended the injured robber the bandits shot Jinn through the head and drove his car over a cliff. Police instituted a search tor the bandits in aeroplanes. WOMEN SOB AT FAITH HEALING MEETING. Emotional scenes were witnessed at a Four Square Gospel faith healing demonstration at the Royal Albert Ilall. London. Men and women of all ages, and even young children, knelt in the arena, and as the principal went among them and had his hands on their heads some collapsed, sobbing and moaning, and several fainted A number of people testified to recovering irom illness at other meetings through spiirtual healing. One woman, who said that she had been unable to walk for over 14 years before she attended a meeting walked across the Albert Hall stage, and eight people stated that they had recovered from cancer.

TWO "LIONS" LOST. Awakened in early morning by the maid bursting into her bedroom and shouting: "Quick, madam, the lions have gone a woman. M i's. Shaw, of Holloway. London, rushed downstairs to find a policeman. "Our two lions have gone" ex- < laimed Mrs. Shaw. "What, your lions have escaped:'' asked the amazed constable. "_\o. somebody has taken them," was the reply. Mrs. Shaw then explained that the missiing "lions" were two very line lead ornamental figures which had guarded the entrance to the house for nearly ]Q0 years. They were of considerable weight, and after being forced from their iron support must have been carried away in a van. AFTER TWELVE YEARS. Twelve years ago Anton Nisike. <•: Ciik-au'", purchased a motie\ -making machine. it cost him i'34o. hui he believed it could be made to show a profit 01 more than that every day by <ouverting one dollar bills into ten dollar bilis. But the machine failed to live ur» to the claims made for it. When Anton opened the outer cover he found nothing but a couple of mirrors and a few bits or paper. Somewhat- disappointed he began a search for the seller. Countless trails proved false. But last month in a t hicago street he saw a familiar face. A little later h" had a warrant < hargim: operation of a confidence irame and led a :•<•];' ••■man to the home of Kudolph S;iioVi > . Kiidolph was held as tile make;- ~r" tic.- •;i• -v -making machine. ELEPHANTS FIGHT FIRE. A "ta' : " story of how a herd of wild elephants <■ 'aiuered a forest fire on the .-■■uth-u.-t co,ist it" India is told by the Indian Xou> -Service. During a gale a big t :■•••• v -as i;pi ~-->-evl and blocked one of the ' :- j \s. \ new of natives was detailed to , tli.- : ■'•ad. and to lessen their work a'; ,-ui ' d burn the tree. When dark- ' bourers returned to the '.us.toiii house and the tire - V . '""'joining woods. The ■ i oaming band ot wild elephants, , ' l '' story, discovered the i. aiMi immediately i-alled his followers by I n un.p.-nng. Within a few minutes 5 »" '"'ir-'ooti-d firemen were busily em'Vl'- t!ii mi tnnik.s as hose, turning ' \ ~ 11 :i ot water on the blazing tree • Hid I 'Ml IHIIU' Wood.".

KILLED WITH A SWORD Mr. and 3lre. C. W. Clements, oi Burr St. Edmunds, hare received the official account or the murder of their S'Ti. M~. Fred Clements, 37, in Northern N"i/rria where he was employed on railway construction. He was motor cycling w 'th a native foreman into new territory when a native standing in the track attacked b-.m Willi a sword. The foreman ran for * doctor, but Mr. Clements died shortly ar.er -.he doctor's arrival. 2300-MILE TO ERRING SON 1 o save her 22-year-old son from the consequences of evil companionship, a Canadian woman, Mrs. Peter Storm has made the 2500-mile journey from Saskatoon to Toronto by motor cycle. Mi>- Storm, who is a rancher's wife, elled alone, and covered the distance in a week. It wa# her intention to travel back by the same means, but this time she h'-ped to b<accompanied by her erring sob, whom .-lie would carry on the pillion. Sh*- considered that her son ran away because oi tie influence of evil companions. £2000 ROBBERY FROM COUNTRY HOUSE. Jewellery and silver articles believed to have been worth £2000 have (been stolen from Woodside House, the residence ct Mr. Grimston, at Cadmore End, Bucks, Cadmore End is between High Wyeorob* and Henley, and the robbery took plae* during the absence of the family. A man and woman who had 'been engaged am butler and cook respectively are missing. They had replied to an advertisement in a London paper, and were engaged as indoor servants. The man is said to b« about 30, well built and with fair hair, and the woman, who is 28, ia tall and at smart appearance. SWIMMER ATTACKED BY SWAN. "V\ hile bathing in Keston Lake f'Kent) a man oi ab-~ut 30 years was attacked by a swan and narrowly escaped drowning. The man, who was a strong swimmer, was hi the middle of the lake when attacked I'V the bird with beak arid winis. shouts were heard and people on the bank threw sticks and stones ax the Fwan. W hen the bather reached the bank ha was in a state of exhaustion. He paid thai had he not swum on his back and kicked out at the bird he w.iu'd certainly have been dragged under. The swan waa removed irom the lake by the cominoa ranker. 'liie <watis of " Keston have chosen for their nesting place a spot on the bank near the diving board. LUXOR DISCOVERY. - The Trench Institute if Oriental ology announced that a party digging in the necropolis at Thebes (Luxor) diseov* ered two roughly-cut. chambers at the bottom of a deep pit. They contained soma forty sandstone blocks from the temple of King Taharka (.722-663 8.C.), of the 26th Dynasty. Xear the blocks was found a quantity of modern objects, including a rope, a pulley, a pick, nails, baskets and rollers, which had evidently been left there by the French mission sent to Egypt in 1831. The pit has been identified definitely as that from which was taken the black granite sarcophagus erected in the Place de la Concorde, Paris, in 1536. It vas sul> sequently acquired for the British Museum, where it is now exhibited. SISTERS SHOT DEAD. Iwo women, Maggie and Sarah Mo» Auley, sisters of Mr. Andrew McAuJeV, J.P., have been shot dead in an armed raid at their brother's house in Axmo-y, Antrim. The women, who were alone ia the house, were killed with Mr. McAuley*g pun while he was at work in tlie tip Ids. 1 hev had just returned from taking their brother his dinner. A servant working in an outhouse heard a shot but paid no heed to it. Hall an hour later she entered the kitchen to find the bodies. A gold watch and chain and £40 was stolen by the raiders. Every available policeman in the district for miles around was at once set to work in a search for the raiders. Armov is a village with a population of 300. It lies in an isolated district about twenty miles from Portrush. LONG LOST COUSIN. There is a very prettv. smartly dressed well-spoken young woman walking about Brussels making a good living by mistaking impressionable young men for her cousin. Her latest victim was strolling alone the Hue du Pelican when she stopped him: "Hullo, Peter." she cri-'d.m a delightedly surprised manner, "I have not seen you for ages." Before the astonished young man could reply the girl's arms were round his neck and he was being smothered with kisses. Then the girl found she had made a silly mistake—but. really, he was ha? cousin Peter's double. She blushed in maidenly confusion, and the young man, his face still burning with the adrent kisses, politely raised his hat and regret* fully watched her disappear round thi cotner. Shortly afterwards he discovered that 3us vallet containing £4 had al=o> disappeared round the corner.

LOST IN CHANNEL FOR EIGHT ! HOURS"I m lost! I m lost!" This cry, ia broad Scotch, was heard in the Channel, and a man in a small skiff was rescued in an exhausted condition. The oarsman had left Deal beach at 11 o'clock. He rowed straight out to sea, but lost bis bearing* m the Channel mist, and appears to have rowed * aimlessly round and round until at last he was among the breakers on the Goodwins. With the skiff half full of water he managed to get clear, but was th<m exhausted and drifted farther out. His was seen by the look-out on the South Goodwins lightship, who, notioing a motor boat with passengers near, sent it out to rescue the oarsman. When picked up he had been adrift in the Channel ior eight hours, -and he could hardly 6peak. He was understood to give his name as Robert. BISHOP'S BAN BREAKS ANCIENT CUSTOM. Owing to a dispute between the B ; -hop ot Leicester and the vicar of thr- Lei.-.-*ter parish of .St. Mary dc Castro, a prar-tn r which has continued uninten t pwdb' the city for 300 vears Im--beet, br. Vn Ike dispute resulted m thr Bish..i. pitting the parish "under «?isf-;pliur-year since the establishment j, Hospital, an ..Id Lfi'-estcr , o ß r>v .-? James 1., the mayor and ' attended St. Mary's Ch'tt. '• o: ! -* ' Sunday, which this year w». .■ .T -c But the mayoi said th it h- - .rK i-*d by the town . ie; k it v , proper or legal ior : ■ ;,tti a church under t'-e i'> -nop- "I i.o Bishop imposed his <i,s< ipli.' . re.*tii< - tiorjs \vh»n the vie.;; le;"u<. : to comply with a i-fjue-t that p.-;.- I.lrt -irk persons should !... j:, ~.i . the Holy Ccmnrn.ie.i :: : Ke.-erved Sacrain-ut. j WOMEN TRAPPED IN LOCKED j OFFICE. ■ i;a\ e had the disair-.-eai V i . . ;,,rh.-d ::i the ■ •ihe« .. ; ,j!»rai ]).?ionshn >tr- * ; . ,\'r -J .."clock m the r.~r> • being fed thrc.u-h • •!ic front entrance !•-. '• •• ' - i-:pi:isky. a ;n : ~r J ij\ telephone trial ■ ' ! the . . nJr of the editor vrerc i: at » 'clock, when the i called , ,^ v tn a " hoard rueeun- A. : -ssage was i <cnt to the clerk vho I - • ■ key of the I ,\fnr-e. hut at tli- f- •• • ' lephoning he I had " nt arrived ' 1 lie police at I Hackney are y " " - him. * said Miss j Lipinsky. ' '" have been verygood to !.«. an : : : t given us tea and cake through th- ;ri-r- grating. It would be hardly fair to other tenants to have the lock sawn o*i, as there is a great deal of valuable property belonging to