NEWS CURIOSITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 125, 28 May 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)

NEWS CURIOSITIES.

JOTTINGS FROM WORLD'S PRESS.

Lemons are now grown in China. Lemons are one fruit the natives delight handing Japanese visitors. Anglers in Michigan have .been requested to report the number of fish they catch during the season. According to Charles M. Schwab, reputed multi-millionaire, "there are no rich men in America to-day." The high cost of drinking was enhanced in Ontario on May 1 when the new tax on liquors came into effect. King George of Greece and King Alfonso saw the performance of Helen at (he Adelphi Theatre, London, on the same evening recently. Miss Mary Ann Fossdick, of Seckford Almhouses, Woodbridge, Suffolk, who was 100 last month, was presented with a canary by the governors. To offset the new Ontario tax on ice cream, the size of the cones has been reduced. Small boys are convinced that the consumer pays the duty. The vicar of Taddington, near Buxton, Derbyshire, the Rev. J. F. Warden, has prohibited the erection of memorials of foreign stone in his churchyard. The remains of Dr. G. Travers Kevern, of Wivcnhoe, Essex, whoso wish that his yacht should be scuttled with his bodv was prevented by a gale, was buried a't Wivenhoe. Councillor Mrs. Ellen Edwards, of Richmond. Surrey, although she was hundreds ot miles away on a sea trip, opened a Richmond bazaar by means of a gramophone record of her speech. People waiting for a sale to begin at Bristol heard a shot and found Mr. E. W. Brown, aged .36, the auctioneer, of Whitlcy Road, Bristol, lying wounded in a stable with a gun by his side. Sir John Echlin, Bart., aged 41, whose family formerly had considerable estates in Southern Ireland but which were in an impoverished condition when Sir John came into the title, is retiring because of ill-health from the Royal Ulster Constabulary, in which he is a sergeant. Toronto police who recently raided a fraternity house, outside the jurisdiction of the university, prized a large quantity of tableware aiui other "souvenirs," tl>e property r>f city hotels r.nd restaurants., J t is proposed to make an example ot »" guilty students to check the practice ot "swiping." A ruling relating to ciV Q re J O n State has boon made by f f r ' t ttaj Supreme Court. }and , must refund Mayor Baker, ol J?!.! covering all »'<• the .alary he . l a ™ e all d o&erJß"^