NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 249, 20 October 1928, Page 3 (Supplement)

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

TO WORKHOUSE BY TAXI. Stopping a taxi cab in Cleetharpes, Samuel Hicks, a Grimsby fisherman, ordered the driver to take M" to Grimsby Workhouse, where he demanded admiasion to the casual ward. This was refused. The taxi fare waa 4/6. w; "Vi had twopence. "You must give me time to pay," he told the Grimsby Bench. "Not necessarily," was the reply. Hicks waa aeatenced to six days' imprisonment.

WORLD'S BEST AUDIENCES.

Mr. John McConnack, the famous tenor, was once asked in which place of all others in the world he liked best to sing. "Berlin," he replied, "and after Berlin, Dublin." Curiously enough, when a similar question was put to Frits Kreisler, he gave exactly the same reply. The reason which each of these great artists gave, when further pressed on the point, was that while Berlin and Dublin audiences are extremely critical, they are also more in sympathy with the performer than the audiences of any other capitals.

RED TAPE FOR THE STRAY DOG'S TAIL. An order signed by Sir William JoynaonHicks, the Home Secretary, and issued to the police of England and Wales, provides for the measuring of stray dogs' The "Statutory Rule and Order No. 162," in which the instruction is given, suggests that possibly the breed of a stray dog "may not be definitely known." To provide against this knotty problem, which might interfere with the functions of red tape in describing the dog; the police must insert in their of the dog's identify, "sire, nature of coat, and length of tail." QUEER PLACE NAMES. In Hampshire, on the borders of the New Forest, may be found Charing Cross and Waterloo. There ia a Victoria in Monmouth, and a Brixton Boad and Bow in Devon. It ia queer to come across audi places in the heart of England, and there are other plaeea that strike one aa peculiar in another aenae, such as Bdrom and Bethesda, that reminds one of Holy Land, but are no further than Berwickshire and Carnarvonshire; Yanr, that might well be in Persia but ia in Hereford; and Calvo, that ought to be a place where there are bullfights but is in truth in Cumberland. And you may pass through Denmark by going to Glamorgan.

SULTAN HOAX. With the departure of the young Saltan of Morocco from France a good story £u leaked oat. The pinifrr of a casino at a Rinen resort persuaded the Saltan's advisers to arrange for Wim to visit the casino one night. All preparations were made for the event, bat the Saltan "called off. The m»in|> was in despair, for all the well-known residents of the neighbourhood had been invited. Bat the evening passed off admirably. The people who came were duly presented to an imperious-looking person accompanied by a number of others with the Morocco tan on their faces. Bat oatside observant people miswd from {heir usual selling places several Moroccan pedlars with their bundles of carpets. MAN bEFENDS SCORPION.

A scientist who tests the deedfiness of so-called poisonous iiisi icta by letting"tbcm bite him told the International Congreas ®| Entomology in aeasion at Ithaca, Ifew Yorky thtt the traditional dcadfinon cl many insects is largely a "mental illusion." Sr. W. J. Baerg, of the University of Arkansas, who was introduced as "the most bitten entomologist alive," said that he had found that tarantulaa and scorpions, long considered among the most deadly of insects, are really quite harmless. He cited one exception in tne scorpion family, however—the type found in Durango, Mexico. These, which he has been studying for some time, he said, are poisonous, and nave canaed the deaths'of many inhabitants 'of the district.

HOME OF THE STONE OF DESTINY.

The Palace of Scone, just outside the ancient city of- Perth,- Where the wedding took place of Lord Scone, bar to the earldom of Mansfield, and Miss Dorothea Carnegie, daughter of Sir Lancelot Carnegie, formerly British Ambassador at Lisbon, is one of the mrst romantic landmarks in Scottish history. For it was at Seme that most of the early Scottish longs were crowned on the Stone of Destiny, which has had a resting place,ander the Coronation Chair in • Westminster Abbey ever since Sdwatd I. of GOO years ago, bought it to London, much to the chagrin of the perfervid Scots. It at Scone, too, that several of the Scottish Parliaments met, that Charles H. signed the National Covenant which ultimately led to Scotland its religious freedom. PHEASANT REARS DUCKLINGS. The mysterious loss of five "young Aylesbury .ducts and their finding by a North Weald (Essex) farmer reveals one of nature's remarkable moods. Wandering away from their chicken foster-mother, they were given up as lost. Some time later, when a field of mixture was being cut, a wild pheasants' nest was disturbed. When the hen led her family of ten away from the danger of the cutting machine the five young ducks also emerged from under her wings and waddled along behind their second foster-mother. A young poultry farmer, said when she attempted to separate the ducks from the pheasants the hen became fierce and attempted to defend both the adopted and her own family. She had to get assistance from her father before she could catch them again. COACH SET ON FIRE. Recently there were alarming scenes in York Road, King's Cross, London, when a motor cycle coming into collision with a motor coach fell under the vehicle and set it alight. The coach was crowded with passengers for Newcastle, and had just set out on the journey when the accident occurred. Sliding under the bonnet of the coach, the motor cycle burst into flames, setting fire to the coach. The driver of the motor cycle, Mr. Harry Bignall, of Canonbury Avenue, N., was taken to the Royal Northern Hospital with head injuries, but his brother, Joseph Bignall, of the same address, who was on the pillion, escaped with a few scratches. "The whole front of the coach was enveloped in fire;" said a man who saw the collision, "and it looked as if it might be destroyed. When the passengers saw the flames they at once rushed for the door."

BODY SENT TO WOMAN.

A woodsn bos daliversd by mm LJU. railway loaij itisntly at tha hones of Mrs. Archer in Leigh ton Awno* Loghtan-on-Sea, wae found to eaatam tha body of a baby boy. The polios have taken chazge of the body and a fetter containing eertain allegation* which wao found in the box.

A TREAT FOB THE YOUNGSTERS. ▲ new joy has tsen added to life a the opinion of many youngsters, by the sew elephant tableao at the Luados Natural History Museum. By wsw of a Batten on the side, the lighting of the scene can be changed from sunny noontide to booblight, through dawn and bade to deylight again, the complete taarite occupying about » minute and a hall. The scene, * group of elephants in as African forest, is greatly admired, bjr the younger liaton.

CAT AND MOUSE TRAPPED. Two-act coutedy of a noose and a eat on flypaper in the kitchen of J. MoGinnes, Cleveland Street, Bedfern. First act: Mouse caught over night and is imprisoned on the glne paper. It fowht hard for its freedom, but it stock harder with every wriggle. Second act: Cat «tn when kitchen door ia opened and boonda on to the flypaper to seise the mouse, but it also sticks and ia soon entangled in the sticky trap. Then Mr. lfcflmnea takes a hand, peas the paper off the cat and kills the boom. So* the eat is wondering if mow naff him ia worth while. FAMILY OF TRAGEDY. An invalid father's hurried Tint to France to aee Ida dying aon and the mother's tragic death ia recalled by the funeral of Mrs. A. V. Wynbloom. of Lougton, Esses, and Malcolm Wynbloom. Mr. Wynbloom waa too ill to attend the ceremony. Early tins month Mslrnlm a 22-year-old Cambridge undergradnata, went to Grenoble for n holiday comae and waa taken ifl. Mr*. Wynbloom virited her aon and. leaning that ha waa dying; became distracted. She waa later found drowned. Mr. Wynbloom char* tend an aeroplane and flew to Grenoble. His aon died a few daya later. DEVON WATERSPOUT. "Whilst walking along the nsn front at Woolacombe I noticed a great dialiabaaue in the flea. It happened a few miniitm after a heavy thunder-shower," no write Mr. W. H. Hjinune, of Woolaeen*ey. Devon, deeeribmg an nheoi—- eaanda experience. "A whirling mam of water," he continues, "could he assn dntthiw from the surfaeeof tin sea to the It raced along from Baggy Paint to Morte Point, and on etrikmg the chflb at the latter it turned into a hugs warns which dsshed well over the racks. Tbm occurrence was witneaaad hr —— viritora."

A LAND OF MILLIONAIRES. There aire over 270 millionaires in Canada, while taking the popolatiae as a whole—a compsrative haroffal of Urn than ten million peopln the per capita wealth is greater than that of pnetnQr any other country in the world. It is a notable record and is doe not.merely to the rapid exploitation of the great taeuuiues of the Dominion bat also to the sense of aeuiulj which forms the baas of its whole structure. Still preeminently agricultural, the country's population Is in i ousida sliln measure made up of with • reel personal stake in the aaffl and the motion of national well being. GIRL SHOT DEAD FROM TRAIN. A territorial who fired out of a railway carriage window and kitted a girl wan sentenced to three months imprisonment at the Sheriff Court, Glssgow. The accused man, John Daly, when fiiut challenged, had frankly admitted firing. He that while practising on the rifle range at Dechmgnt, on July 7. one round had jammed in his rifle. He took oat tha cartridge and put it in his pocket. Ha thought he had better get rid of it before he readied home, so he fired it out of tha railway carriage window at aome crown. The ballet passed near a man's • head, touched a woman's start, sad thea richocheted from the road sad hit a. nursemaid, Miss Torrance, who died in hajpitaL

PAttCHENDAELE ECHO. , A ■ecood lieutenant, who bi been m» ing since the battle of Passchendaele, is mentioned in the will of Thomas SbeD, tailor, of Sfhank Road, WiDiaey, who left a gross estate of £08,792. The property goes to the widow for life and then a third is left to his son, Cyril Hubert, who disappeared at Fuschendade in November, 1917, "if he be alive and claim same." "Si name was pat into the will," said Mrs. Snell, "because we hoped for some years, that we would hear so— news, his disappearance being so nijateriotis. He was going up the line to relieve others when he disappeared. Nona of his comrades knew what happened to him."

COCK-FIGHTS TO DEATH. When' 20 men were charged «t «P----pcrary wiith assisting et cock-fighting; ak was stated that Civic Guards came on the scene at a spot four miles from TSpperary. Preparations were ready for a fight, but the party were diap» nttL A crowd numbering over 100- motored fira miles further on, end the Guards followed on bicycles. Arriving on the scene they found the birds fighting. Despite the Guards' request, the fight continued and lasted nearly an hour. Two cocks were killed, one having an eye knocked out. James Lawlor, of Maryborough, said In owned the nine birds They represented Queen's County sgainst Kerry. He had been 40 years breeding birds far fighting. He was fined £5, and other am were fined from £3 to 10/. .

WOMEN TERRORISE POLICE. Civic Guards confessed in Dublin Fblm Court that they were afraid to go near four women against whom they gave evidence in cases charging them with assault and offences in connection with" street trading. It waa eatd that wfcaa the women were told to remove their fnrit and fish stalls from a *«.— threw fruit, fish-boxes and baskets at the gn»d*> Their eondoet was m bad Oat additional guards and a motor ear had to be summoned to remove them tottawdin station. Bndget Geraghty, who waa and to ha*e atruck Gnard Forde in the eye with a tomato, waaaent to prison for a month. Bridget McGuinneas Combe, who struck Si-?* h^ ui with * EV «»d Bridget' Beott and Barbara. Howard were fined £1 eack

At ton BY OATCAKES. . -A which a wife was penshsed (he tried to.earn a few Aiffiy. )° W « unemployed and ailiar band by baking oateases baa j—* l *WMd bjr the unemployed umpire, a barrister itticfcwj ?_S" Ministry of Labour. Ths application for the 7/ allowed to the wife rf f ggtJL. man. It waa allowed, jains ance officer WC SS (tat objeeand the wf—l wen tion. The yHf oatcakes that them to about a in to a profit dfl— °».*Sg?aaE-«/ a week from their is described by the ."■cariTm® on an occupation he adds that in such glffgg-.-b—d- to refuse the dole, no hsv small may be the amount of actually made. In thi« *Sjte that the profit vu )« tfapa