NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 229, 27 September 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

WANTED BANKER'S RUSE. After ?■ disappearance of three weeks Senor Yiiianueva, a Venezuelan banker, I wanted on a charge of embezrlinc several J million francs of customers' money, was j found serving in the Spanish Legion. One of his friends saw him serv- ! iug in a training camp at Riassien, near (>uta. where he had enlisted under the false name of Aviai. FIFTEEN IN TWO ROOMS. During an action at Greenwich County Court for possession or two rooms at j ! Brides Street, it was said that they were i occupied by fifteen people, one of whom j was a consumptive. "Xo wonder one of j them is suffering from tuberculosis, or something of that sort. Good gracious! They will all have it," exclaimed Judge Moore. An order for possession in six weeks was made against the occupiers of the rooms. NOT ENOUGH BRITISH FILMS. For failing to exhibit the prescribed quota of British films during last year. Myer Ereedman, proprietor of Tivoli Cinema, Eastbourne, England, was fined £1 and £3 3/ costs. Ereedman, who pleaded guilty, said his booking agent had recently filed his petition, and his local manager, who had been dismissed, had failed to keep his record book up to date. It was stated that Freedman showed only 2.27 of British films, while the quota was 5 per cent. WOMEN DESTROY OLD TREES. Seven women were censured at Halifax, Yorkshire, by the magistrate for ivhat he described as scandalous conduct — destroying an avenue of trees which had | | been in existence for twenty years at j Elland Upper Edge. Taking choppers and j saws, the women cut down 35 trees, because, they alleged, they caused '"'a plague of green flies" in their houses. They were ordered to pay 11 guineas costs. The prosecutors were the trustees of the Baptist School at Elland. MOTHERS' BIG DAY OUT. ! Three thousand mothers from Yorkshire I and the Xorth of England, brought to London in connection with with the Mothers' Union Conference, spent one of the fullest- days of their lives when they had the unusual experience of travelling by special tube trains to Piccadilly, where they examined the wonders of London's most interesting underground station. Eighty motor coaches took them on a sightseeing tour which lasted all day and extended as far as Richmond and Hampton Court. In the evening many attended the West End theatres. j A WOBBLE IN THE VOICE. I Singers with what he described as the I •''wobbly voice" had a very straight talk from Mr. George Dodds, a well-known j Newcastle teacher of singing, in his lecture j ! at the summer course in music teaching at ; I Oxford one day last month. "We are ! j suffering from a very bad attack of wobble j !in this country," he said. "We get singers i ' who sing with a constant oscillation; you i ! have only to listen to the wireless to hear j ] them. One of the sad things is that some ; j listeners thihk it is the thing to do—they | ! imagine it is emotion, whereas it is un- j j stability. Some have asked me to teach j them to wobble like the singers on the I j wireless." j WAVE DROWNS SISTERS. i The conclusion that they were drowned | while paddling on Margate Beach after ! walking too far into the sea and being j | overbalanced by a wave was reached at j the inquest on two children. "The tide i was well out," remarked the coroner, Mr. Lee. "and it seems almost incredible that such a tragedy should have happened on the sands at Margate. There are no dangerous currents or creeks, and the sands are quite level." The children, Eileen Callaghan, aged S, and Elsie, her sister, aged 7, were the daughters of Albert Callaghan, of London, who said that Elsie had suffered from epileptic fits for six years and had a fit a montn j ago. They went to Margate with their ! grandmother, who had been watching | them. A verdict of found drowned was j returned. PEGGY O'NEILL IN COURT. Miss Peggy O'Xeill, the actress, was sued at Westminster County Court, by the London and Parisian Motor Company, Davis Street West, for £10 for work done to her car. Her business manager said - that she denied indebtedness. She could t not appear as she was still recovering from a motor accident in which she was severely j shaken. A clerk to the plaintiff firm said I they removed the magneto for adjustment and placed another magneto on the car. j The manager: We have an oid magneto i and we gave them a new magneto. Judge I Turner: You didn't. It was one repaired, j They have put one against the other. It jis clear as daylight. Miss Peggy O'Xeill had paid into court £-3 S', and judgment ! was given for the balance of claim and j costs. CHASING THE LINER. Heavy excursion traffic made one passenger miss ship at Southampton last month, while three Americans only caught a liner after an exciting chase down Southampton Water. The passenger who missed his ship was Mr. John Holloway, o: Bristol, who was to have sailed for Canada in the Cunarder Aurania. _The liner was held up for a quarter of an hour and a tender was kept vainly waiting for nearly an hour to chase after the Aurania. Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Mayell and Miss C. Mayell, of Los Angeles, who j went to Cowes to catch a glimpse oi the 1 King and Queen were more fortunate. When they got to Portsmouth thev were > rushed to Southampton in a _ car, but j arrived in time to sec the Empress of i j Australia starting off down Southampton j I Water. They were put on board a tug, i i which caught up the liner after a chase, j VICAR'S STOWAWAY SON. ! An IS-year-old undergraduate of London j University, who stowed away in j Star liner Avila Star, bound for South ; America, was brought back to England j from the Cape Verde Islands. The youth ■ I whose adventure was thus cut short is ; Michael Langley, son of the Rev. H. L. ' Langley, vicar of V ombourn. \\ oiyer- ■ | hampton. He hid in the vessel just betore . I it sailed from London on July 10. auu he > j was not found until the ship Had lett ; j Madeira. The captain landed htm at St. i Vincent, where he stayed nine days j| nt ." j I the Avila Star s sister ship. Aiiua.utvt . i Star, arrived on the voyage home. Mis | sole idea in going was to a'.d to .us expeu- | etice of the world and pick up_ ; Michael Langley told a reporter mat he spent four days in a hieooat, a - - on t " i ham sandwiches, a bar or cuo>-ola«.e. . I water from the lifeboat k«g. He wa» c-x- ; . ! hausted when he gave iumselr up. : j

MOUNTAINEERS' FATAL HURRY. Three Austrian mountaineers wera recently killed on the Grossglockner, the great Carinthian mountaineering centre. The men were coming down the mountain, when thev saw a party of Carinthian policemen, undergoing alpine training, who were going down ahead of them. They made a spurt to overtake them and neglected the usual precautions. The result was that they fell down a, 2000 ft, precipice and were killed. HELEN WILLS' OBJECTS. When Mrs. Moody (nee Miss Helen Wills) returned to the United States from Wimbledon she had a grievance. She expressed displeasure that European newspapers called her Mrs. Wills-Moody, instead of just Mrs. Moody. The hyphenated name, she said, sounded too English and professional. It was understood in London, however, that "Wills-Moody" was the correct American form. It certainly is not the English custom to combine a woman's maiden and married names. UNCONSCIOUS FOR TEN WEEKS, In Tawe Lodge Infirmary, Swansea, there was recently brought back to life a 21-year-old collier, of whom his family had long given up hope. He had been unconscious for ten weeks. Apparently he has recovered and is ready for his meals and talking of leaving Tawe Lodge for home. Since he regained consciousness the patient explained that he remembers some injections without understanding them or being able to express himself. A HONEYMOON CRASH. While on their way to make a honeymoon tour of Xorth ales on a motor cycle, Mr. and Mrs. David Mills, of Barnes, England, met with a serious accident at Maidenhead, Berkshire. Mrs. Mills, was riding pillion when the machine collided with a lorry which was turning out of the main road near Maidenhead Bridge. She -was badly hurt, and was detained at Maidenhead Hospital. Her husband, who escaped with minor injuries, returned later to his home. WOES OF THE KAISER'S SISTERS, Duchess Dorothea Marie SchleswigHolstein. sister-in-law of the ex-Kaiser, is in financial difficulties. The Prussian Mortgage Bank, whom she is stated to owe £25.000, has obtained a writ for the compulsory auction of Primkenau, Silesia, the last of her estates. The estates of the late Princess Victoria, the sister of the exKaiser, who married an impecunious young Russian named Zoubkoff, many years her junior, were also put up for auction to liquidate her debts. ELOPERS MARRIED, Miss Ada Alexander, the IS-year-old Reading girl, and George Greenaway (20), an ex-public schoolboy, of Reading, who ran away from home and returned a week later, were married at Reading registry c nee a fortnight after the elopement. Great secrecy was observed, the time of the ceremony being altered from 10 o'clock to 9 o'clock. The young couple, who were dressed in their ordinary clothes, hurried to a closed car afterwards and drove off. Miss Bacon, the girl's guardian, and a few friends were present. DEATH IN A TRAIN. Returning from a pilgrimage to Lourdes, the Hon. Gabrielle Acton, IS-year-okl sister of Lord Acton, died in the train ■between Abbeville and Boulogne from a heart attack. Sixth in a family ot nine, Miss Acton had gone with three of her sisters and her second brother, the Hon. Peter Ac-ton, to help look after sufferers on the Lourdes pilgrimage. Members of this old Shropshire family are ardent Roman Catholics and _ have been accustomed every year to give their services to the invalids on the pilgrimage. Miss Gabrielle Acton left her finishing school in Erance only this year. ST. ELMO'S FIRE? I Much comment was aroused recently by i a "fire-ball" seen playing round a tower at : Blackfriars, Thameside. People waiting i for trams saw the phenomenon, and | said that the top of the tower glowed with a pinkish red colour, and are certain that it was not a reflection any sign. •"I am quite certain it was St. Elmo's Eire, which I have seen at sea," said one eye-witness. An Air Ministry weather official stated that St. Elmo's Eire was rarely seen in a large town. " Possibly the lightning conductors on the_ top ot the tower had something to do with it," he said. THE CAR BROKE DOWN! A Worcestershire woman recommended for an old-age pension of two shillings per week was not satisfied. As it was not a full pension she intimated that sue would appear before the County Pensions Committee and tell them what she thought ; about it. The committee received a letter | stating that she had set out to appear, but I her car had broken down. The chairman: She has got a c-ar and she also has a solicitor, who now writes that unless we hear further we are to conclude she will not proceed with her appeal. Members of the committee, who were greatly amused, decided that a pension of two shillings be granted. EXCESSIVE PUBLIC PENANCE, 'T am doing a little penance_ for my sins," was the explanation given by Hanley, a young bricklayer, who | was charged at Marylebone with insulting i behaviour. During the brief hearing he j adopted a pious attitude and continually ' looked up as if in prayer. A constable ! said that he saw Hanley kneeling on the j footpath, with his hands clasped in irons lor* him. and his eyes closed, saying the ! Lord's Prayer. -V woman came by, ana he I prostrated himselr m rront or her. He aUo i threw himself in front or a man. Twour ! three times that morning, while waiting I to come into court, he had knelt down au r ' praver. Tiie magistrate directed a remand and asked for a medical THE INNOCENT EGG I The " innocent egg ''—particularly the dude's egg—is not s o innocent as it might be." according to a British Mmistry or Health medical officer. "One habitually rtcards an egg as one of the safest and most wholesome forms of food," he says. There have been a number of mysterious poisoning cases during the last three years a fleeting both individuals and groups of peooie. The officer states that care should be taken in using duck's eggs in any manner in which thorough cooking is not involved —ror example, iu making creams, ices, custards, or even lightly boiled. Ho agreed that the risk or rood poisoning from _eggs is comparatively rare, but he is inclined to think that salmonella infections from eggs are, in reality, a little more common. ABANDONED ON A GLACIER. An astonishing story concerning a recent incident on Theodule Pass, near Zermatt, when a woman among a party of Italian fugitives broke her leg and was leu in the snow, is related by the "Gazette de Lausanne." It was at first reported that the other members of the party made her as comfortable as possible and went on to Zermatt for help. The Lausanne paper alleges that the party acted in a heartless fashion. The woman who was accompanied by her two little girls, was one of a party of ten. On the pass, covered overnight with IS inches of snow, she fell exhausted. The others attempted to restore h~r with alcohol and she proceeded, supported by the men. Near the Gandegg Hut .-lie slipped and fell, breaking her leg. Her companions, it is stated, then abandoned her on the edge of a clacier"about kV> yards from the hut, took her mom"'.- and ":uade for Zennatt. H-n- cries and those of the two children „-i,o ien> tired with their mother awoke lonV in the hut, who went out * * r in Zeruißtt was in-f'U-med^by"telephone' and police held up i the party on arrival.