HERE AND THERE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 October 1924, Page 12

HERE AND THERE.

AN EYE FOE EVERYTHING. NO BREACH OF PROMISE. Having abolished the ancient right of the Turk to have more than one wife, the Turkish Judicial Reform Commission has now adopted the following proposals: “There shall be no resort to the courts for breach of promise; it shall be illegal for a man to marry the wife of another man; a marriage for a provisional term shall not be valid.” NEW HEIGHT RECORD. Information has just been received that Otto Ballod, who recently established a world height record for a heavily loaded machine, whilst flying a Fokker-Napier aeroplane, at Buenos Aires, reached an altitude of 27,000 feet—a South American height record. His machine was fitted with a British Napier engine. WATCH RETRIEVED FROM THE SEA. A lady bather at Prussia Cove, Cornwall. lost her watch from her wrist, but in too deep water for her to recover it. Walking along the beach six days later with his dog. a visitor was surprised to see the animal dash put of the water with the watch. ACTOR WHO REFUSED £200,000. David Warfield, the great American actor, who once sold newspapers in San Francisco, is now on his first)visit to London for thirteen years. He once gave amateur dramatic performances before other newsboys while waiting for the next “special” to appear. He recently refused a contract of £20.000 a year for ten years. Mr Warfield is fifty-eight years of age. DOCTOR SUNLIGHT. Science has confirmed the instinctive feeling of the layman that there is great therapeutic value in the sunlight. Sir Henry J. Gauvain has pointed out that locally sunlight has a powerful bacterial action. In this way. lupus, that disfiguring manifestation of cutaneous tuberculosis, might be successfully treated. Remarkable instances of cunlight and ultra-violet light cure 0 are on record. The luminous rays have considerable penetrative power, and are absorbed by the blood stream. SCRAMBLE FOE FREE BEER. Three visitors to Southend-on-Sea two of them women, were injured in the scramble when an accident to a brewer’s lorry sent barrels of beer streaming down the roadway recently. The motor lorry, drawing a trailer loaded with barrels of beer, was crossing the tramlines when a trarnear collided with it. Seven barrels fell from the trailer and were broken. The beer ran in streams down the street, and, for a quarter of an hour people sat on thckerb with glasses, mugs and other drinking vessels helping themselves to the cheap refreshment. Competition for the- free beer supply was keen. It was with- great difficulty that the leaking barrels were replaced on the trailer.