NEWS-"FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 224, 21 September 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)

NEWS-"FROM ALL QUARTERS.

CORPORAL SHOT AT CAMP. Recently a shot was fired into a hut at Barry Camp, Forfarshire, iu which were 15 men of tfa-c Royal Army Ordnance Corps'. Lance-Uorporal Woodhouse, who was hit in the abdomen and seriously wounded, was removed to Dundee Infirmary, where au operation was performed. A private of the same corps has been detained in connection with the affair. MOTHER WHO TOLD POLICE. A youth whose mother had told the police of his thefts was charged at Oldham. He was John Cavaghan, aged IS, and with Joseph E. Edwards, also IS, he was charged on four counts with stealing various articles, including a bicycle. Cavaghan's mother said that when her son went home he shouted to her to go outside and see he bad. He took some chocolates and a tin of tongue from under his coat. Asked where he had got them, he replied: "From a warehouse, while another hoy kept watch. TAIL AND TRUNK LIGHTS. That elephants should be treated as motors, and must carry a white light in front and red light behind, is the new police _ order in Colombo. Numerous complaints were made to the Colombo police by motorists. The elephants veer unheralded into crowded thoroughfares, and are a distinct menace to motorists on dark nights, causing many accidents. Whether there should be motor horns on the elephants, or whether the mahout should make the elephant trumpet at all crossings is a question not yet settled. , GIRL'S CLIMB TO SAVE DOG. Holiday crowds at Lavernock, on the South Wales coast, saw a young girl make a plucky cliff descent to rescue her terrier. The terrier had fallen on to a ledge nearly 30 feet from the top of the cliffs. Its owner, Miss Susan Jones, de-

scended the treacherous rock face, picked up the dog, and then continued to the j bottom of the cliff. Apart from a few cuts oil her arms and legs she was uninjured, but she had to make a hurried departure for home as her frail dress had been torn to ribbons by the jagged rocks. FADDISTS REBUKED. "Cold water and fresh air fiends" were attacked by Dr. Dan Mackenzie, of the Central London Throat and Ear Hospital, at the conference of the British Medical Association in Manchester. Few people, he said, could afford to revert to savagery. If they did they would not keep it up long in England. The worst of it was that the faddists impressed their own regime on their suffering children. "You will see their long and skinny daughters," he said, "with red-rimmed eyes and weeping noses, sent out to face a nor'-easter, nude and purple from the ankles to the pates." This mode of living, he said, merely led to persistent nasal catarrh and colds." _ The golden rule was "no extremes" —neither too much exposure nor too much covering. EATING LESSONS BY FILM. A film produced by the New Health Societv for the use of organisers of pubbc health weeks was recently shown at King George's Hall, Bedford Place, W.C. It dealt with the cleansing of streets, the hygienic handling of food, and the advantages of open-air education. The film lays great stress on tlie correct method of eating, proper mastication, well-balanced diets, and the danger of indigestion are illustrated by charts and diagrams. Care of the teeth is also emphasised. The spectators were shown how to keep fit at 50. A picture of two people burdened with excessive fat from over eating was followed bv one of healthy middle-aged golfers, who had followed the society's motto of: "Food in moderation; and exercise. * WOMEN TRICK WOMEN. The police have been informed of renewed activity by women tricksters. Two of them, describing themselves as court dressmakers or mannequins from leading fashion houses, secure introductions to firms employing girls to whom they offer dress materials at very low prices. Women employees of one London firm paid £65 for goods they have not received. Reading police have warned housewives against a woman with a bcottish accent who sells tea which she says has been specially blended to suit the water in the district. She assures her customers that everybody who buys 21b of tea at 3/8 a lb and the same quantity the following week, Mall receive £2 10/ from a director of the company Scores of people are still waiting for his visit. FORTUNE HIDDEN. A settlement has just been reached in the Dublin High Court Jn. a case

cerning the cash left by Thomas Gibbons, a County Galway who was firmly convinced that the tune would come when the hanks would not honour their notes, and the notes would be worthless. In a number of hiding places in his house and shop he kept his wealth hidden in the shape of gold and Treasury notes. In one room he had £220 in gold in a jam jar concealed under the floor. He had another £200 in a chest on the landing of the stairs. Altogether he had nearly £800 secreted. After his death the hiding places were discovered. The widow later sued a relative and partner of her husband, who, she alleged, had used some of the money for himself. He said he utilised only what xrflg necessary for the funeral expenses. After two days' hearing the partner agreed to pay the widow £300 in satisfaction of her claim. TAX INSPECTOR'S KNOWLEDGE. Candidates in the recent examination j conducted by the Civil Service Commissioners, for the purpose of selecting officials for promotion to the rank of Inspector of Taxes, had to know a good many things besides the way to make humble citizens pay their income tax. Here are a few of the questions that were set for them to answer:—How far is it possible to make a food for an infant that is a satisfactory substitute for the mother s milk? Account for the popularity of musical comedy or revue.. Write an essay on ihe art of self-advertisement, write an essay on the legal status of. apes. State the arguments for and against the Channel tunnel. Give an account of the work of the Salvation Army. What are the chief characteristics of the writing of Bernard Shaw or Edgar Wallace? Explain the action of yeast in brewing. There were no questions on the paper dealing with the collection of taxes. Doubtless their ability in that direction was taken for granted.

BUBBLES AT SCHOOL. Bubble-blowing, kite-flying and paddling are to be part of the daily _ programme at a nursery school to be built in Liverpool. There will be a sand-pit for the 200 infants who will attend tbe school to dig in, and the children will feed and carc for bird and animals pets. Babies of two years of age will be able to attend tbe school, which will have a garden. LAST OF HIS LINE. Stated to be the last of a family of 16 brothers and sisters, Joseph James Smith, 71. a bachelor, cut his throat at the house where he lived in Grosvenor Road, Hanwell. Just before the tragedy was discovered bv a niece, who called on him, ' Smith had called out, "Toodooloo" to his landlady as she went out. and had seemed quite normal. Smith s niece said that her uncle was the last man she would have expected to commit suicide. Ihe coroner. He was a survivor of the old days of the large family?— Yes, and we used. to be very proud of tliem. A verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned. NINE YEARS IN OI<)E CELL. Mention of women being kept for six years in the same cell after they had served three years' penal servitude was made by Mr. Oliver Barnet at Windsor Sessions. He was defending Annie Vv atson, aged 00, who was sentenced to three years' penal servitude for attempting to commit suicide while detained in the cells at Windsor Police Station, obtaining bv false pretences, and being an habitual criminal. Mr. Barnett said that in 1920 Watson was sentenced to three years penal servitude, to be followed by six years' preventive detention. Judge Sturges said all the statements of prisoners were not always true, but having regard to Watson's age he would not sentence her to detention.

LET OFF BY WOMAN J.P. After, persistently protesting against being tried by a. woman, a man brought up at Slough on a charge of begging was let. off by the magistrate to whom he objected. He was Edward Sharpe, aged 5:2, and when brought before Mrs. Mitchell, who is a Justice of the Peace for Buckinghamshire, exclaimed: "I object to that woman trying me.*' He added that he would rather be put back till another day, saying: "I want a man to try me. I am no woman's man." Inspector Westmore: A note has been made of your objection. When told to keep quiet he went on voicing his objection. A policeman said he received complaints of Sharpe begging and using abusive language. It was stated he had been in custody 24 hours, and Mrs. Mitchell let him off on condition he left the town. ELEPHANT'S GRIEF. An amazing instance of the memory of elephants was illustrated at St. Thomas, Ontario, recently. Among some elephants belonging to a circus which were being unloaded was Alice, aged 110. She was with Barnum's Circus and was a companion of Jumbo, the world famous elephant whose departure from the Zoological Gardens about lialf a century ago caused a considerable sensation in England. On reaching the spot where Jumbo was killed by a train in September, 1895, Alice stopped, stamped, trumpeted shrilly, and went down on her knees —starting the eight other elephants of the party on the rampage. It was only with great difficulty that they were pacified, and Alice made repeated demonstrations .of sorrow when she again had to cross the spot where Jumbo was killed. "A VERY CRUEL FRAUD." Frederick Carter, of Heckmondwike, and Arthur William Holloway, of Leeds and Birmingham, respectively managing director and director and secretary of Carter, Ryder and Co., Ltd., general merchants and importers, were sentenced at Leeds Assizes to 12 months' imprisonment in the second division on three_ charges of conspiracy and fraud, by which they induced three men to invest £200 cash in. the company. It was stated that defendants had advertised for investors in Bradford, Sheffield and Hull, salaried posts and interests, on money invested, and describing the firm as a _ sound, established concern doing good business in electric lamps. It was stated by til© prosecution that the. company had no stock, no banking account, and was a swindle from the start. In passing sentence Mr. Justice Finlay described the fraud as very cruelJOKES OF NEW NUMBER PLATES.

Motorists with a sense of humour, the "Sunday Chronicle" discovered, are "tickled to death" at the decision of the British Ministry of Transport to employ three letters and three numbers for motor vehicle identity plates, when the present stock of two-letter and three-number combinations is exhausted. A' ery little stretching of the imagination is needed to visualise the comical complications that will eventually arise as the result of this new system. Some hair-brained stunt motor cyclist, for instance, will be careering wildly along an arterial at 50 m3es an hour, encouring traffic cops to make a note in their pocket-books of MA D 99. MP H 100 will be the ambition of all budding Segraves, not to speak of the speed hog—who may have a car with his appellation back and front. PEP will be a nice spicy motto for a < speedy youngster's motor cycle, but who will want ASS? There will be_ few who will be grateful for CAD, particularly those with a tendency to forget the good manners of the road. And as for B. 0 W, well, it will look odd on a smooth-running Daimler. CLAIM FOR LOST HAIR. A New York school teacher on a visit to Paris is claiming about £1200 damages from a leading Parisian hairdresser on the ground that in attempting to dye her hair he made her bald. The teacher, who is referred to as Mine. X., and whose story is related in the "Chicago (Paris edition), found when she arrived in Pans that there were traces of grey in her fans black tresses. She underwent dyeing treatment at a fashionable establishment, but Tvhen she found several days later that the grey hairs had not been entirely eliminated she went back to the hairdresser, who told her, she says, that a slight mistake had probably been made, and suggested further treatment. After the treatment had been given for some time Mine. X. noticed, she further states, that her hair was falling out. Hastily putting her hand to her head, she was dismayed to find, she asserts, that a Ivindful of hair came away with it. She screamed and ran from the shop, grabbing as she went the bottle used in the process. She immediately called on an American lawyer, who has undertaken to conduct her case against the hairdresser. SEVEN-PIECE CLOTHES. The Life Extension Institute, vrhicH is preaching the gospel of clothes for men weighing no more than those worn by women, has found its first disciple in. Dr. Thomas Darlington, a former health commissioner of New York. "Aw*ay with discomfort" is the motto of Dr. Darlington, who is now appearing in public with a costume designed by himself "for health and comfort." It consists of seven pieces, including and shoes— one more than the modern woman's. Above loose trousers Dr. Darlington wears a washable linen coat, cut like a Russian smock, which buttons across the right shoulder and down the side. Underneath it is a flrosy cotton one-piece under gar* ment. He has discarded for_ hot weather wear collar, shirt and waistcoat. Mr. Stuart Chase, the author, claims to liav* improved upon the former health com* missioner's costume and is sporting on# consisting of a linen doublet, short knickers, socks and sandals. Dr. Darlington, however, objects to tsocks and knickers, quoting against them th* Biblical verse: (The Lora) taketh not ' pleasure in the legs of a man.