NEWS OF THE WORLD

Evening Star, Issue 20510, 14 June 1930, Page 7

NEWS OF THE WORLD

BLACK SPORTSMEN ABORIGINES’ RACE MEETING Aboriginal residents of Woorabindi, Australia, staged their own race meeting recently. They had their own committee and other officials, one of them laid the odds, and the dusky jockeys, who wore purple, blue and red sashes, were all triers. The bookmaker called every thing that ran, and on one race he got a “skinner.”' • Horses were lent by station owners and settlers, who came from far and near to see the sport. FOOLISH OR INTREPID? THIEVES FLIRT WITH DEATH Breaking into the warehouse of B. Addison, Limited, Ultimo, two young thieves recklessly flirted with death when they used lighted matches to facilitate their “job” of stealing several cases of highly inflammable petrol. Toward midnight, a lorry was seen by the night watchman being backed into the storehouse of petrol. He was next amazed to see two young men striking matches in the midst of several hundred cases of benzine. Only inexperienced men would risk the terrible consequences of prowling near benzine with fire in their hands. He communicated with tho police and several hours later Plainclothes Constable Lawless and others found the thieves asleep In the lorry, a mile or so away from the premises. They were charged Avith breaking and entering. FLY-KILLER ' TO ALLAY PAIN In her endeavour to allay pain suffered by her young sou from the effects of mosquito bites, Mrs. Anna Jones, of Huntersfield, near Morpeth, Australia, sprayed fly-killer on the child’s hack and stomach. The child later became ill, and died suddenly. Describing the effect of the fly-killer at the inquest. Dr. HollyAVOod, Government Medical Officer at West Maitland, said,that the preparation was not meant to be applied locally, as it contained substances produced from a poisonous flower which acted as an irritant if applied to the skin. A verdict of death from septic plcuro-pneqmonia and myocarditis, partly caused by the application of a, preparation to relieve mosquito bites, was returned. QUICK WORK A FISHERMAN’S ENTERPRISE Harold D. Jennings, treasurer of the Central Maine Power Company and president of the City Aldermen, Augusta, TJ.S.A;, declares that'he was fishing for smelt in the Kennebec River near City Hall. Smelt may be caught without a fishing licence, and Mr. Jennings had no licence. Suddenly there was a mighty tug on the line. Mr. Jennings reeled in his line- He caught a glimpse of a big salmon. To catch the salmon Mr. Jennings had to have a licence. Just then, he says, he spied S. SeAvell Webster, City Clerk, at a rear AVindow of the City Hall, and shouted for a fishing licence. When the licence had been Issued Mr. Jennings hauled in the salmon. TOE TOWER OF BABEL , INDIANS IN COURT When a Hindu Indian was charged at Tower Bridge Court, London, with stealing from a seaman, he objected to the interpreter. “He Is a Bengali, and cannot understand the prosecutor, a Pathan,” said the Indian. The interpreter, admitting he was a Bengali, said he Avas translating from Punjabi into Hindustani, which both understood. Hindu: I speak Hindustani and you do not. In answer to the magistrate, the interpreter said that the copy of the Koran, on which they had all been sworn, was written in Urdu. “CORPSE” AWAKES PALL-BEARERS HORRIFIED They were burying Jeronimo Enriles, the son of an artillery colonel of Ecija, in Spain. Enriles bad been certified dead by a doctor on the day * efore. As the procession Avas making its Avay to the cemetery the bearers were horror stricken by movements inside the coffin. They hurriedly loosened the lid and found that the man was still alive. They took him home again. He does not yet know the experience he has been through. STRETCHER MARRIAGE BRIDE TAKEN FROM HOSPITAL Crowds attended the stretcher Avedding of Miss Nellie Walker, a Pendleton (Manchester) bride, recently. Miss Walker was taken by ambulance from the hospital, Avhere she had been lying for some time, to the church. She Avas met at the church door by the bridegroom, and then carried to the altar on a stretcher. At the conclusion of tho Avedding ceremony both bride and bridegroom entered the ambulance, which took them to the bride’s home. They had arranged to be Aved on February 20 last, but the bride Avas knocked down by a motor-cycle and so seriously injured that her life Avas despaired of. As soon as the hospital authorities pronounced her fit to be moved, although not yet able to Avalk, the delayed wedding was arranged to taka place. A doctor friend of the bride, who was to have given her away, died while she was In hospital.

A WOMAN’S RIGHT SAYS “NO” AT CRUCIAL MOMENT Mile. Lebrun has been “safely” married at last at Rochefort to her fiance, a young doctor. The marriage Avas to have taken place some months ago. Bride and bridegroom went to the church. But to the dismay of everyone, at the crucial moment Mile. Lebrun replied “No” when the priest put the allimportant question to her. She gave no reason for her sudden change of mind, but now the- ceremony has been held all over again, and her doctor fiance was relieved to hear her answer “Yes.” “CHEATING THE ROPE” CONDEMNED DOG ESCAPES Tim, a police dog, sentenced to be shot for sheep killing, escaped from the city pound before the arriA r al of the executioner at Santa Rosa, California. Tavo boards had been torn away from Tim’s death cell. Scores of letters and telegrams were received by the Governor of the State pleading for mercy for Tim. The Governor, hoAvever, said he was powerless to prevent the execution. Some friends of Tim’s apparently took matters into their oavu hands. “DISROBE!” GIRL BANDIT EMBARRASSES VICTIMS Modesty is not a failing of a pretty girl bandit Avho continued to spread fear and confusion in the ranks of Chicago’s taxicab drivers. She has just added a fifth pair of trousers to her collection by holding up a taxicab driver, at pistol point, and robbing him of £2 16s and his more important garments. Her embarrassing method is to hire a taxi, accompanied by a male escort, and then, at an opportune moment, to poke a revolver into the driver’s ribs and order him to “disgorge and disrobe.” By decamping with his pants she and her escort delay pursuit. All her escapades so far have started from one point in the city, of Avhich taxicab drivers are becoming very cautious. A RARE FEAT 10-SHOT AT BILLIARDS A ten shot at billiards is not very uncommon, hut to do it with the three balls finishing up in the same pocket is a rarer feat. Here is how it Avas done by Mr. B. Walker at Manly Life Savers’ Club room, Sydney. The red was lying three Inches below the right centre pocket; plain on the lip of the left baulk pocket, with spot, in play, slightly to thp left of pyramid spot. The red was hit fair in the centre, the running side on spot carrying it across to cannon with plain, and both dropped into pocket. In the meantime the red had doubled twice across the table and finished up in the same pocket. “JUDGE NOT” BAKER CONSCIENCE STRICKEN To aid him in being excused from serving as a juryman at the Darlinghurst sessions recently, a Killara baker quoted a passage from the Scriptures. His objection to being empanelled, he said, was on conscientious grounds, but to influence Judge White he quoted this passage from St. Matthew: — ... “Judge not, that ye bo not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and Avith what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you.” In granting the application, his Honour said that it was fortunate that the rest of the community did not hold he same vieAvs, otherwise the administration of justice would be seriously disturbed. IRONY OF FATE MAN’S DEATH AT GOOD NEWS A man’s death when told ho was not suffering from cancer, as he had thought, was described at a Holborn inquest on Percy Volsiu Pluck, at Jersey. He had been led to believe that he had cancer, and, on the advice of his doctor, in Jersey, Avent to St. Paul’s Hospital. “The final examination had been completed,” said the resident medical officer at the hospital, "and a doctor was telling the patient he Avould be able to return home the next day, as ho Avas not suffering from cancer, Avhen he gasped and lost colour.” Further medical evidence, attributed death to failure of the heart, and a verdict of death from natural causes Avas recorded. “INDIGESTION” PROVED TO BE BULLET WOUND When Anthony Agrista employed as a circulation route man by a New York evening newspaper, awoke one morning in his home at Brooklyn, his stomach pained him so severely that he suspected an attack of acute indigestion. He telephoned for his family physician. The doctor listened to the symptoms and shook his head. It Avas not indigestion, ho decided; more likely the pain was caused by some internal injury. While he prepared to examine Agrista he asked him if ho had met Avith any accident. Agrista could not recall one. He had had an argument with several men the night before, he admitted, and he remembered that one man had struck him in the face. But beyond that, he insisted, there Avas nothing. The examination, however, disclosed that Agrista had been shot through the stomach. He was rushed to the hospital-