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Dunstan Times, Issue 3129, 7 August 1922, Page 7

A long lawsuit, involving costly litigation seems to lie in a lair way to an end. .lolin Percy, a Glasgow machine worker, offered a slightly marked, hut not defaced, coin to a tram conductor as fare, hut, refusing to give another penny instead, was handed into e_uslocly. In cons;e(iuence he claimed CoOO damages and CIUO expenses from the Glasgow Corporation. The Cord Ordinary (Lord Ashmore) ordered a trial, hut the First Division of the Court ol Session in Scotland dismissed the action. Mr Percy appealed to tin l House of Lords, where Lords Haldane. Kinlay, Cave, Dunedin, and Wrenhury allowed Ids appeal, and ordered a trial of the issue. Are the mysterious “hell holes ol Voiron, whose bottom never has been found, any indication that the world is nearing another catastrophe, such as the world war? The curious pits have existed since time immemorial in Central France, and have been accepted a* a barometer of world events by the population for hundreds of miles around. The group of holes, of unknown depth, always are filled with vaguely troubled waters. Recently they have spouted six leet in the air. and there have been eruptions of a milky liuid, which also is evident in the River Voiron, more than a mile away. Ihe milkiness has ready alarmed these m the vicinity, who have produced documents to show that it never occurs except before some disaster. It appeared in May. 1870. before the war with Prussia* and in May, 1914, as recorded by the Paris newspapers.