NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 58, 9 March 1935, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

SMACK GAVE BACK SIGHT

Nine-year-old George Paterson, of Mile End, Glasgow, lost the sight of one eye iu an accident seven years ago. A doctor said the eye must come out, but the boy a mother refused. George was misbehaving the other day, and his mother smacked him sharply on the side of the face. He cried out, "I can sec—with my bad eye! Doctors say the cure will be permanent. MONKS SEE LOCH NESS MONSTER. Two fathers of St. Benedict's Abbey at Fort Augustus, Inverneae-eliire, eix brothers, and three pupils at the Abbey School, watched from the monastery grounds recently fw almost half an hour what they believe was the Loch Ness monster. Father O'Coimell, an American priest from New York, said: "Ihe creature first appeared on the Inchnaealdocli side of the loch. After making its way across the loch it made lor i'ort Augustus-. I distinctly saw three humps and the body underneath the water seemed to be of large dimensions." Father Sole, who was near, said that he did not believe in the existence of any strange creature in the loch. But what he saw through a telescope altered his view. The monster, whose fame is now world-wide, brought thousands of tourists to Loch Ness last summer, but during the past lew months it has been elusive. WHY IS CHEESE? '•Why is cheese?'' is the question that the research workers attached to the Department of Dairying of the University ot British Columbia have set themselves. TJiey want to discover the identity of the bacteria that in ikes cheese taste like cheese and smell like cheese. They believe that the discovery of the bacteria would revolutionise the whole dairying industry. "Cheese-making will then be a science and not a mystery handed down from lather to son," says ])r. Blythe Eagles, who is in charge of the research work. "As it is, one starts to make cheese exactly the same way as it has been made for the last thousand years. Good cheese may be the result—or bad cheese. We are trying to isolate the bacteria. Then we shall be able to say to the farmer: 'If you take this fellow—or perhaps it will be this oim and another working together—and put them into your milk, and do thus and thus with it, you. will get good cheese.

STORY OF 2000 RATS.

A woman who said she stuffed the chimneys of her home with newspapers to keep out the sinoll from sewage disposal works, but finally had to leave the house, claimed an injunction and damages at Berkshire Assizes. Tli'o action was by Mrs. Georgimi Rawlinson, of Rutland Street, London, formerly of Warren House, Bracknell, against Windsor Rural District Council. She said she spent £2700 in converting a farm-house into .a dwelling house in the hone of living in it for the rest of her life, but had to leave. She said that a neighbour had told her that he had shot 2000 rats, which she concluded had come from the sewage farm. Lady Edith Constance Annesley, daughter of Mrs. Rawlinson, said that she had to leavo her mother's house owing Lo the smell.

KILLED BY RHINOCEROS. A young Englishman, Mr. Heben Carpenter, who went to Kenya a few years ago from Okehampton, Devon, was found dead in circumstances which point to his having been killed by a lhiuoceros. Mr. Carpenter, who had been employed aw manager of a stock farm, on the morning of his death went out on horseback, but failed to return. A search resulted in the discovery of a riderless horse mid later of Air. Carpenter's terribly mutilated body lying on the grassland at the ciige of the forest. Investigation clearly showed tin , trail of ii rhinoceros. It is presumed that hia horse shied and threw Mr. Carpenter, who was attacked by the rhinoceros. After impaling him on its horn the animal crashed through the forest with the body. The man's clothing was torn oft' and wus found hanging in shreds along the animal's trail. Cases of rhinoceroses attacking human beings arc rare. A man and a woman were killed by one in Kenya in 1025, while in 1931 Baron Paul C. von Gontard, a German big game hunter, described how cue had charged an, aeroplane standing on the African veldt, wrecked it, and killed the pilot.

TRAPS FOR JUBILEE CROOKS. International crooks, who operate wherever money is being spent most freely, arc expected to visit London in force on the occasion of the King's jubilee in May. Scotland Yard it! already preparing to circumvent them. Lord Trenchard has been holding conferences of police chiefs at Scotland Yard to draw up detailed plans for the jubilee. H has been decided to seek information from foreign police departments about the movements of cosmopolitan criminals; to increase the special squad at Scotland Yard concerned with combating "confidence men"; establish the fullest co-operation with provincial police forces for the protection of colonial and foreign visitors; and to arrange for the Special Branch to take the same stringent precautions as were taken on the occasion of the wedding of the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina. Scotland Yard has information that confidence men arc looking forward to reaping a rich harvest during this time, and it is possible that official warnings will be issued to put the public on their guard against the tricksters. The special branch of Scotland Yard, to which 30 additional detectives were attached at the time of the Duke of Kent's wedding, will be maintained at extra strength until the celebrations are over. Close watch will be kept at .'ill sea and air ports for suspicious aliens, and full reports will be obtained of the "secret" meetings of extreme political groups.

MERCHANT SEAMEN FOR CANALS.

Merchant seamen, some holding a master's ticket, are embarking on uncharted waters. Weary of waiting ■jn vain for berths in ships that sail the seven seas, they have become bargees, and are being trained to navigate the Grand Union Canal. Along the 240 miles of waterways between London and the Midlands they are getting accustomed to the intricacies of locks, tunnels and one-way' bridges. By the end of the year they will command r>o pairs 'of vessel to be built by the Grand Union (..'anal Carrying Company at a cost of £50,000. The boats will be Diesel-driven with a cargo capacity of 55 tons. A STANDING CORPSE. The fixed expression of a man standinj on the wharf ot Messrs. Churchill Johnson at Vange, Essex, attracted the attention of a friend. The friend approached the man, James George Kitseil, aged 26, a lorry driver, of Thynne, Billeric-ay, Essex, and touched him. Kitsell fell down motionless. He had been standing up ( \ after having been electrocuted when he took hold of a "live" chain attached to a night watchman's timing box on a lamp standard. Recording a verdict of death from misadventure at the inquest the jury found that there had been negligence on the part of the firm, whose manager had previously been informed that a night watch man had received a shock in the name way. "THE MIKADO" "OBSCENE." The flowers that bloom in the spring; tra-la! Make 'no appeal to Dr. Henry Spahristein, dentist, of Boston. Abandoning his drill and forceps, he is swinging the axe of the Lord High Executioner for the purpose of decapitating Gilbert and Sullivan, lie has appealed to the Mayor of Boston to ban a forthcoming performance of "The Mikado," on the ground that it is "filthy, lewd and obscene, and an insidious attack on organised government." " 'The Mikado,' " he says "satirise* all government and thus undermines the minds of growing children and robs them of all respect for discipline and society." What shocks him even more is the thought that the rolos of Nanki-Poo and Yum-Yum involve "the bartering of an innocent woman's body—an outrage to public morals."

STERILISATION DEATH

An operation that, in the words of the St. Pancras coroner, "'defeated its own ends," led to th c death of Mrs. Cecily Anii Victoria Perry, aged 37, of Marsh Hill, Aylesbury, Bucks, on whom an inquest was held. Mrs. Perry was the mother of two children, and suffered from anaemia. She attended the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital as an outpatient, aud sterilisation was advised there. Dr. Ruth Alice Kellgren told the coroner (Mr. W. Beritley Purchase) that everybody at the hospital was agreed about the advice. Dr. John Frank Taylor, pathologist, said that the post-mortem showed that death was undoubtedly duo to hemorrhage. In recording a verdict of death by misadventure, the coroner said he was satisfied that from the surgical point of view the operation was properly conducted and as a precautionary measure was properly undertaken. But it had brought about death, which would not otherwise have occurred at that time.