NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 217, 13 September 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

ONE MORE RECORD FOR WOMAN. Dr. Christine Murrell, of London, addressing the British Medical Association in London recently, spoke for only 25 seconds. THE ARM OF COINCIDENCE. Here is the long arm of coincidence. At a London terminal station of the Southern Railway a passenger applied for a first class ticket at 5 minutes to 5 o'clock recently for the 5.5 p.m. train. The fare was 5/5, and the ticket numbered 5555. FINED £1 A MINUTE, T\vo special jurymen an the King's Bench Division were five minutes late in returning after the luncheon adjournment and had to pay a £5 fine in consequence.. One was the Hon. John Raymond Bethell. Mr. Justice Horridge said the time overspent would cost them £1 a minute. KILLED BY LONG SKIRT. Mrs. Sarah Stedanan, of Bulwer Road, Fulham, London, trod on the edge of her skirt and fell in stepping 'back to avoid a motor van. "This case is an argument in favCur of short skirts," said Mr. H. R. Oswald, a West London eoron«r. He recorded a verdict of accidental death at the inquest. DIED AT CHURCH SERVICE. Mr. Robert Hope Selbie, general manager of the Metropolitan Railway Co., left £67,724. He died in St. Paul's, while ■his son was being confirmed. Mr. Selbie gave six months' waiges to each domestic indoor servant of three years' service. The residue of the property he left equally between his eons Philip and Andrew Selbie. THEFT REFLECTED IN MIRROR. A bus driver, looking in his driving mirror while going through Chorley, Lancashire, saw a man passenger leaning over a sleeping woman, open her handbag, take something from, it, then replace the bag. The man passenger, Joseph Phillips, of Ledbury, Herefordshire, was sent to prison for seven days for stealing £7 10/ from the ibag. METAL-FACED SKYSCRAPER. The world's first metal-faced building, long a dream of architects, is now being constructed in New York. Named the Empire State Building, it will also be the highest building in the world, reaching 1043 feet. The metal to be used is a non- i rusting and non-tarnishing steel alloy, | having the colour and texture of grey finished silver. This will be placed on the stonework in etrips.

I SISTER "AIMEE" FINED. Sister Aimee McPherson, the evangelist, had to pay fines amounting to £55 on articles she omitted to declare while passing through the Customs on her arrival at New York from the Holy Land. The ■articles included pyjamas and a Paris gown. A minute examination of her ■baggage showed that she had declared £0 <V worth of dutiable articles, the value of •which amounted to considerably more. The blonde evangelist consented to report at the Custom House to pay the fines. GIFTS FROM EMPRESS. Gifts given to her by an Empress were mentioned in the will of Miss Olivia du Cane, of Fittleworth, Sussex, who died in Switzerland. She left to a brother (asking him to preserve them in the family) the three diamond and emerald brooches, the silver gilt topped scent bottle, the crystal and emerald gold pins " left to me by the Empress Frederick, and the autograph portraits of the Empress Frederick, all of which were given to me by the Empress, also a packet of letters to me from the Empress." TOOK HIS SECRET TO THE GRAVE. "Evidently he had come down in the world, and he might have had some secret trouble/ , said the coroner at the inquest at Tenbury on Mr. Geoffrey Vivian Searle, the master of Tenbury workhouse, who was found dying under a hedge. It was disclosed in evidence that Mr. Searle had taken 200 aspirin tablets in two'days, and the coroner recorded a verdict of suicide. ■ Searle, a well-educated man, entered the workhouse as a casual, and eventually became master. The coroner said that he was a man about whom nothing was known. CORONERS' 75.000 INQUESTS. Two well-known London coroners have retired. They are Mr. H. R. Oswald, of. the Western district, and Sir Walter Schroder, of the Central district. In the last 36 years Mr. Oswald conducted near,ly. 25,000 inquests, including the famous Ronald True and Freda Kempton murder cases.

j Six , Walter Schroder has inquired, into ' 50,000 inquests. He was 'responsible for setting the police on the track of Smith, oi the notorious " Brides in the Bath" ease. A casual question put at the very end of the inquiry about an insurance policy aroused Sir Walter's suspicion, and led ultimately to the conviction of the murderer. KIPLING'S INCOME TAX. A claim against Mr. Rudyard Kipling for £420 odd is being made by the United ! States income tax authorities. The Collector of International Revenue for New York filed a demand against Mr. Kipling in the Brooklyn Federal Court, alleging that the amount was due on the author's income for 1924. It is understood that the claim is based on royalties derived from the eale of Mr. Kipling's books in the United States, and apparently an order is sought to deduct the money from the publisher's payments to the author. The publishers, Messrs. Doubleday, Doran and Co., of Long Island, say: "The suit is probably based on some statistical confusion. Mr. Kipling has always paid his American, income tax with the utmost regularity." NOT EVEN A FARTHING DAMAGES. Miss Mollie Frances Hunt, who was expelled from a Shanklin school and was awarded a farthing damages against the headmistress, Miss Kathleen Damon, whom ehe sued for libel and 'breach of duty, is not to get her farthing. Legal arguments on the jury's finding wero heard by the Lord Chief Juebice of England, The jury had found tliere was no libel, but that, in expelling Miss Hunt, Miss Damon acted without reasonable cause. Even if the jury's verdict could have been sustained in law he would still have deprived Miss Hunt of her costs, because he took the damages awarded to mean that the jury thought— as lie thought 'himself—that the action ought never to have been 'brought. .He therefore entered judgment for Miss Damon with costs.

ACTRESS WINS £50,000. Miss Jenny Dolly, the actress, spent a distinctly profitable Whitsun holiday at Lβ Touquet, France, this year. In two turns at the ibaccarat tables she had extraordinary luck, her winnings realising m the neighbourhood of £50,000. VETERAN LIFE SAVER. , George Ilott, a bathing watcher em- : ployed by Brighton Corporation, rescued , a nurse from Drowning at Brighton. Ilott, who is 65, plunged fully dressed into the sea and brought the young woman ashore. Ilott has saved over 100 lives. MURDERER SAVED BY TIME LIMIT. Otto Sanlmber, the "attic lover" who was coimcted at Los Angeles of having snot Mr. Oesterreich, a Milwaukee manutactura-, with whose wife he -was infatuated, has been released. The reason for his release was that the crime was committed eight yeare before legal proceedings were (begun, and was thus nullified by tlie Statute of Limitations. "OBLIGATIONS" OF A DEAN. Monsignor Maeken, Dean of Tuam, County Galway, who died last February, left £100 to the Archbishop of Tuam "to have Masses said in a public place in>lreland to satisfy any obligations I may have through error failed to satisfy in my priestly life. If, as I believe, there are no such unfulfilled obligations, then these Masses are to be said for the Souls in Purgatory, including my own." A WANDERING FOX. A vixen was recently found in a garden in Atheklene Road, Wa.ndsworth. She had a collar and a chain and a man led her into Earl&field police station. There was no name on the collar, so the police had no idea of the identity of the owner of tlie animal. She was therefore taken to the National Canine Defence League's clinic in Garatt Lane, to await a claimant. The animal was about five months old and was described as "tame and playful." BLAZING COACH DRAMA. While a party of 320 of the oldest inhabitants of Ramsgate were being taken in 12 motor coaches to Dover one of the vehicles burst into flames. Many of the women fainted, and some of the older men who were infirm got clear with difficulty. Men hoeing in an adjoining field rushed to the rescue, but this was difficult owing to the fierceness, of the flames. Mr. Harling, a farmer, was first on the spot, and superintended the rescue work. All the passengers escaped just in time. All traffic was suspended, and there was soon a queue of motor cars one mile and a half long.

THE GIRL WHO VANISHED. Miss Ada Marie Alexander, the 18-year-old Reading girl who, with her sweetheart, George Greenaway, of Howard Street, Reading, had been missing for some time, returned to Reading recently. ' Following the receipt of certain information Greenaway's father travelled to a place near Leeds, .and' later,, with Mies Alexander and Mr. Greenaway, arrived at Reading and proceeded to the girl's house. Miss Bacon, the girl's when seen. later, said: "It is a great relief to have the girl 'back again. I shall provide a home for them. They are to be married at the registry office as eoon as possible." THIEVES ARE ONLY HUMAN. Thieves who were at work in. London recently in the pouring rain stopped at an outfitter's in York Road and equipped th'emselves with suits of flannel clothes and raincoats before ransacking the shop. The thieves used a large grey car. They took ci-owbars from the car with which to break a side window and the glass' panel in the door to get into the shop. They had put on dry clothes and were piling the contents of the shop into the s waiting car when they were seen by a taxi driver, who pulled up outside as they rushed for their car. Clothing was strewn all over the pavement as the man clambered in and made off. THE TINIEST FLEA. Little fleas have lesser fleas Upon their batks to bite 'em, And these again have lesser fleas; And so ad infinitum. This popular quatrain by Dean Swift appears to be misconceived, for at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, in Keppel Street, they have found the smallest flea of all. When Prince George and the delegates to the Colonial Office Conference visited the school they were shown the smallest biting flea. "A very minute wasp kills the larva of the next smallest flea," an expert explained, "and no other parasite of fleas has yet been discovered."

HATS IN COURT. ■ A girl was reprimanded in the King's Bench Division recently for not wearing a hat. When ehe handed in a document Mr. Justice Roche beckoned to an usher and said: "Tell that young lady .that the next time shecomes into Court, ehe is to wear a hat." when the message was communicated to the girl she hurriedly put on a close-fitting brown felt hat. A woman, on going into the witness box in the Divorce Court on the same day, asked the judge's permission to remove her hat, as it would enable her to hear the questions better. "Certainly," said Mr. Justice Bateson. "I wish all women would take off their liats when giving their evidence." D.C.M. MAN GETS TWO MONTHS. A man who went to France in 1914, won the D.C.M. and was recommended for the V.C., was sentenced to two months' hard labour at Canterbury, Kent. He was John Warwick, 46, of Whitetable Road, Canterbury, who was charged with the theft of stores from his employers, the East Kent Road Car Company. Ihe Chief Constable of Canterbury said Warwick was a native of Durham, and served in the war with the Durham Ligtn. Infantry. He was invalided out with wounds, but rejoined and served with the Northumberland Fusiliers, becoming regimental sergeant-major After the war he joined the Royal Irish Constabulary and was promoted servant for bravery. Waiwick said he had a starvation wage andlost money betting. CHAINED LONDONER. An Englishman. Mr. Victor Edward Cope, of Golders Greeu, London, made a successful effort to free himself from a sentence of 12 months' imprisonment and a 25,000 francs (£200) fine, passed on him at Boulogne in 1927. The sentence was imposed in Mr. Cope's absence, and the offence alleged against him was that he had given worthless cheques. Mr. Cope was arrested as he was about to board the boat at Boulogne for Folkestone. Despite his protests and the presence of his wife and daughter, he was chained to a detective and taken before an examining magistrate to whom he protested that he had • never received the previous warrants or any notice of the hearing of the charge against him in 1927. which he denied. The magistrate ordered Mr. Cope's release, being convinced that he had never received notice of the previous hearing.

HOW TO SUN-BATHE. Sun-bathiug has now been definitely taken under the wing of the Hastings Corporation, and is being; supervised by the Medical Officer, of Health. Notices are posted at all bathing stations oil the foreshore saying that sun-bathing is permitted, and to every bather is handed an advice pamphlet written by the M.O.H. In this pamphlet he describes the best way to sunbathe, and for an ideally healthy morning on the beach he advocates the following programme:—(a) Your dip in the sea—not too long, (b) A thoroughly good towelling, (c) A change into a dry costume. (d) A little run or some simple 'J™™^ (e) A little refreshment. W, IJ . ie .,^ n vi ",' t nil- b-ith The M.O.H. says that the uglit "&&&&£&*?&