NEWS CURIOSITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1936, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEWS CURIOSITIES.

JOTTINGS FROM WORLD'S PRESS. Repairs have just been carried out on one of the world's oldest clocks. It ia one of the treasures of a Munich collector and was made in 139."). Still in working order after ;300 years, it has one disadvantage from the contemporary point of view—the hands register only the passage of hours. A 24-year-old man. Bogdan Chopitch, of Gornja Suvaja, Yugoslavia, has been sentenced to 12 v»ars' imprisonment for the murder of his neighbour, Maria Chopitch. This is the fifteenth murder in connection with a family feud which has lasted 50 years. Five months before the murder of Maria, her husband had killed Gogdan's brother.

Mr. Charles Koebka cashed a cheque for 1000 dollars ( £200) at a bank in Detroit, Michigan. As he passed out through the revolving doors at the entrance a man crowded into the same compartment, while another man held the door stationary. When he finally was allowed to pet through the door Mr. Koebka was without his 1000 dollars. The thieves escaped.

Noise is being banner] in tlie larger cities of Turkey. The Ministry of the Interior has decided to take strong measures to ensure the "calmness and rest'' of thickly populated districts. Officials of all municipalities have been mobilised to enforce the minimum ut-e of motor horns, ships' syrens, locomotive whistles, vendors' cries and other liois'cS by day and the absolute prohibit iu i of them between S p.m. and S a.m.