NEAR AND FAR.

Evening Star, Issue 14784, 27 January 1912, Page 8

NEAR AND FAR.

Arthur Thomas R-eid and George Armitaue, who escaped from tho prison gang at Mount Cook on Anniversary Day, were brought before the Magistrate" at Wellington yesterday. Armitage, who is 18 years old, is .serving a sentence of three years' reformative treatment for breaking aid entering, was merely convicted. Reid, who is 32 years old, and serving a. sentence of two years' imprisonment on 14 charges of breaking and entering, was ordered to be kept on bread .and water for two day's, and to forfeit one month's mirks. A company has been formed in Jackson, Michigan, to nianufactuie a moving picture oamera, tho inveuticr; of a Jacrson man, which is as small and iigut as the average kodak. It is declared that this new camera means an enormous extension of the field for portable cameras. People travelling may take motion pictures of the places they see, later to convert the films into reels for private home entertainment. A wharf laborer, Kneed Edinbreth Bergmann, was arrested at Auckland yesterday on a chargo of stealing 68 men's felt hats', the property of Messrs Maeky, Logan, Caldwell, and "Co. The hats were recently missed from a ca-se of bats received by tho firm. A hat worn by Bergmann was observed by Detective Powell to resemble these in the pillaged case., and after further inquiry an arrest followed. Tho police afterwards took possession of six more hatti which were found Ln Bergmann's house. Queen Mary was so greatly annoyed recently by tho ease of Lord Hamilton of Dalzell, "tho lord-in-waiting whoso name had been so commonly coupled with that of a lady prominent in hunting circles, that Her Majesty forced the King to insist on Hamilton's resignation, although t.he lady's husband has no intention of seeking a divorce, says the London correspondent of the New York ' World.' In another case the Queen heard that a certain beautiful peeress and her lover proposed to attend the Delhi Durbar. Her Majesty had an intimation conveyed to the that she would not he recognised at Court functions' in India, j Instead of taking the hint and remaining j at home, tho peeress caused it to be | known that her husband was going too. j This put the Queen in an awkward pesi- | tion, while smart society laughed cynic- j ally at the peeress's audacity and at her ; husband, who allowed himself to be con- 1 venienfly used as a shield. j In Oentorville, Maryland, the whipping- ! post has been revived for the benefit of ( Laurence Stiner, a wife-he-it or, who- wa<i sentenced to receive six lashes. Stiner requested that his wife should he summoned to witnoiK his atonement at the hands of the law, saying that he deserved it, and wanted her to see hint punished. Mrs Stiner was given a chair nor the whippingpost, and sorrowfully hut dutifully watched j the proceedings. Stiner took his punish- | nirnt bravely, and seemed much less c'is- j tressed than the obs>w:>nt wife, who wept. Wh*n the sixth stroke fell a sigh of relief eseaped the throng gathered to see the whipping. A blanket was thrown about the victim's.shoulders, and he was hurried to his cell, where the physicians applied ointment to his scarred shoulders. Too many war medals are finding their way into public auction rooms. A Victoria Cross and four medals have just been sold by Messrs Sotheby at London, and every auctioneering firm in London has at : various times had its list of medals in its catalogues. Over 30.000 South African war j medals are still lying unclaimed at the j Ordnance Stores, Woolwich, and if the J lawful owners or their relatives do not j make application in the near future the ] lot will be put into the melting pot-. , There is a dogs' cemetery just outside , Paris on a little island in "the Seine, between Asnicres and Clichy, called the lie das Ravagcurs. This dog necropolis has 8,470 dogs buried in it. In addition, there are 395 cats, 10 canaries, 7 horses, 6 fowls. 4 pigeons, 2 goats, a goose, a lion, a panther, and a calf. On All Saints' Day, although flowers were scarce, every grave in the CanipolLs. as the place is called —8,914 of them in all—was decorated by a kindly and eccentric lover of j four-footed creatures with a little bunch of violets. Last November one of the police dogs was shot down by an " apache," whom he was holding until his master came to lay his hand upon his collar, and M. I.epine ordered him to be buried in the He des llavageurs, and paid for a, little gravestone for him out of his own pocket. '* Ijeo, police dot;, killed on duty, November, 1910," was the inscription.