SYDNEY SCENE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 177, 29 July 1941, Page 8

SYDNEY SCENE

SEARCH Btm a|SS HOUSE FULLOFReJ^ CO.C.) STONE^IjKft The unusual which an old man had Wy by himself were revealed *2 broke into a cottage iaISS search of a supposed ing to £2000 and foundi22?»B a motley bish. The police into the cottage because nfS*B had reported that thev recently seen Joseph Biddfe 7° *B SO who had | for 30 years. In the cottage, which w» „/■ * with dust and cobwebs. found stacks of empty tine papers, lags' and other ruiff*B fact to get into, the placetwß to break down a could not, force it openaef weight of rubbish behincfitJW kitchen stove apparently tes been used for a long time, aw : B j stacked with tins, shells, bags and old clothes? r?B ■ room the police found dead I preserved in bottles. rsS>=2B I ently lived on condensedHfi&B ■ I fig jam. and instead of I newspapers on his bed. TVJ?B were told that he had been veterate gambler and had to have £2000. Woman Chnnfc Tk»f Another strange abenatio-B human conduct was Police Court when a delicate woman of 55, Mary Helena fei*B was bound over for a series oH*B in churches. "w Following complaints of -vH from congregations and dmSB police attended many services wB one day the woman was o*B stealing a handbag which a ifß woman in the congregation MrS down beside her. *■» Dr. John McGeorge, Svfoß leading psychiatrist, saidheiaiß consider the woman's conduct isß mal. He said she had enbiartiß him that she had failedlTiiß religious duties and felt an im*B to attend churches and take afcß from them, and from manteß the congregations. Allegations have been mafe&B the influence o£ spiritualists Sβ I something to do with the datiml ' Aircraftsman Ellis FrancuSftM 28. a trainee at Evans BoTkB * School, who was found dnmWifl a lagoon at Casino. It is knoraftß he had been worried about the fcsß of his fiancee in Queensland. found among his belongings that spiritualists had beenaiinaßJ eating with him for some time, of the letters told him theft death, and others, it is effect told him he should enlisted. Receipts were fovtflßj contributions by Sturgess cause."' When Brisbane pbtotaH making inquiries one of they interviewed told theatujßßl tell them what Sturgess wfißßa "in the other world." "^eß Furious Police Chan f A furious chase ended hit nq " when a police car crashed b*mX back of a car which it MMipli?; chasing and which had apeijify stidden stop m a riamnr *** .■ lane in Annandale. Thetoe^bßl ■ narrow that the police taijref uniforms in trying to stmg)r«»| of their car, not being aUe^Mßi • the doors, and while theyimn ■ this a man crawled out cf-WIBJ ; they had been chasing andMMl B The car had been reported <*»i - and when a police patrol CffJWfBI ' it in Annandale and caDed tete driver to stop, he made <£i*B| furious pace. Chasing, him MEgBI ' Annandale. the police * ar Js™W«| ■ m.p.h. at times. The i its wild career, overtook anaiVK - another car and hurled if Jon •Jβ I pavement, fortunately^witbpnMPßf , " ing the occupants. A greyhM»»*Mj 3 catapulted out of the L car suddenly turned dow^M**,*? - end lane, came to a \ on the edge of a flight ' the police car. unable to stopO»B| crashed into it with such tote^Wg * the noise was heard 500 ] Another car came to a 1 by hurtling over a 300 ft ; cluse into the sea. » Williams had , been driving.£"?■ band's car and left it outsrie v*m J home, which is built on a steepn*p| : while she ran into the «w* w «fßl f if the children were togJfiM ! school. When she came Wtr *m 1 house she saw the ca J I J t '?s| s ß '" move away. It r 3 ! speed, crashed through UK "£■■! 1 fence on the cliff rige&ajß%m 3 over. With the car, which «*£B| four months ago and e for £100. went a handbag «*EfM I £11.- and sundry e , liams however said h^ d £«£?.« - considering that his wlf f. B i been in the car. He s the cliff but the only . car he could see was ».•>"?!«»■ V on the water. He said !: plunged into a bream P OO m: ] usually fished every weeK-enn. |.

Rich Source of I***} An Australian vegetable sg; the drugs hyoscine and nyosc' has been discovered, wtaa ;» g five to ten times richer other part of the world. shrub Duboisia abounds along the from Sydney to North V" While the shrub grown va land contains both hyoscine w» # scyaniine. that border contains onlv nyoscj "Tj-. This was revealed nard, of the Council for and Industrial Research returned from a trip to Queensland. , seeking substitutes i ture of drugs which i imported, but are now owing, to the war. Since * tralia has been l supplies of drugs. ™ osU made from Australian and the market is Ukeiy i« in the near future. eveectfl o'*0'* Dr. Barnard does n ot ?* result from his remedies and herbs tribes. "Most of their: ««*» said, -contained being mostly of mild soothing dualities. The i™ he said, -yielded about /a of the things we hoped w