WORLD'S NEWS.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1875, 20 March 1913, Page 7

WORLD'S NEWS.

FROM LATEST FILES. RADIUM LOST AT A FUNERAL. Paris, February 4. Judgment was delivered yesterday in the case in which an employee named Senjean was sued bv his former employer for 40,000 francs, being the value of a tube of radium entrusted to Senejan and lost by liim at a funeral. The Court decided that under the circumstances the employer was the victim of his own imprudence and negligence in giving an object of such value to an employee without advising him to take precautions to avoid loss. PRISON FOR RUGGER MEN. AFTER FRENCH MATCH. Paris, February 4. The Welsh Rubgy football team representing the County of Monmouthshire had two unpleasant experiences at Bordeaux «n Tuesday. In the first place they were beaten by the local University team, and in the second place they got into trouble with the police. After the match the Welshmen were dined by the victorious home team, and after the banquet, on their way home, they amused tnemselves by knocking at all the doors they came across. They were requested by .cyclist police to desist, but apparently failed to understand. An English-speaking gendarme explained that they were policemen, and as 600n as they heard this, it is reported, the Welshmen attacked the police, one of whom was seriously injured. Four of the team were arrested, and at the police court yesterday Jenkins was sent to prison for a month, with 50 francs fine, and Olivers, Simon, and Jones to fifteen days' imprisonment and 50 francs fine.

STRANGE ASSAULT CASE. New York, February 4. Mr Beach and his wife gave evidence at Aiken, South Carolina, today, in support of the theory that the latter was stabbed, not by her husband, but by a negro who had previously assaulted a coloured maid on the lawn outside their home. Mr Beach preserved the utmost composure as he swore that his wife's screams had brought him into the garden, where in the darkness he saw a negro leap over the fence. He carried the fainting victim, who had exclaimed, "A negro has done something dreadful," to the house, and that explained the bloodstains on his clothes. Mrs Beach gave similar testimony, warmly declaring her faith in and love for her nusband. The jury are expected to acquit the defendant to-morrow. PANIC IN A CIRCUS.

ANIMALS ESCAPE. Lisbon, February 4. During a fair at Yianna do Castello a travelling circus caught fire, and tne canvas tent was soon a mass of flames. The terrified spectators, including many women, and children, made a rush for the exits, and several were badly crushed. To add to the terrifying disorder an elophant, two bears, and a leopard broke loose, and dashing through the spectators rushed into the principal street. The people fled in all directions. One of the bears, attracted by a savoury smell, entered a restaurant, and there was a general disappearance of the visitors under • the tables and counter, while others made for the kitchen. The bears and the elephant were easily recaptured by the keepers, but the leopard disappeared*into the surrounding country. A hunt is being organised for his capture. Ten persons were more or less seriously injured in the fire.

FOOTBALL BETTING. FIRM'S PROFITS £20,000 A YEAR. A football coupon betting business that was said to bring in profits at the rate of £20,000 a year was investigated at Newcastle yesterday. George Layton Collins, 41, and Thomas Chaytor, 3(5, were charged as principals in conducting a betting establishment. Eight other men were charged with aiding and abetting. Counsel stated that when the police iaided the building they found £328 in casn and notes and £l6B in a safe in cheques and postal orders, a total of £49(5. There were also 51,528 football coupons. These contained lists of matches and schedules of the odds which were allowed on different events. The coupons were distributed by hundreds and thousands to agents who scattered them, not only over the Newcastle district, but over the whole of England and part of Scotland. borne bets were for considerable | sums, but the bulk were in small j siims. Counsel added that the bets were all ready money bets. In four months from September 7 to January 4 bets were made amounting to £19,497. A sum of £1782 was paid to agents, and something was paid back to those fortunate enough to win. but there was a clear gain in four months of £7229, or at the rate of ££20,000 a year. It was stated that among the agents were a number of men prominent in the football world, including a man who was a captain and goal keeper of a League team. In another case a professional footballer won last season £IO2O. One of the defendants was discharged, and the others, including Collins and Chaytor, were committed for trial. TWOPENNY EGGS. LONDON VIEW OF PRICE. London, February 4. The price of eggs was discussed in the Daily News columns the other day by an "expert,"' and the reason he gave, in part at least, for their high price was the increased cost of grain and feeding stuffs. The farmer, lie added, could not afford to sell new-laid eggs under

2d each retail. Since 1903 the price of grains had increased variously by as much as 12 per cent and as little as 2 per cent, while in the same period the price of eggs has increased 20 per cent. For explanation of this our representative applied to Mr Brown, the lion, secretary of the National Poultry Organisation Society. "It lies in this," was the answer to his question, "that while the consumption of eggs has increased, importation has declined. In 1921, 857,947 hundreds fewer were imported than in 1904. Since that earlier date, of course, production nas increased in this country, but it has not increased sufficiently. If it does not, a new situation will arise; consumption of eggs will decrease. "Both producers and traders should remember that there is a breaking point in the price of eggs. With the price at 2d and 2%d each a limit is put on the number of the consuming public. There is no explanation in the rise of the price of grain for so large a rise as there has been in the price of eggs, and it is utter folly to encourage an increase. Cheapness will in the end bring a bigger return to the poultry industry.''

CURRIED MUTTON

AND PTOMAINES. London, February 4. An action against Messrs Slater's, Ltd., the restaurateurs, in which the plaintiff alleges that some curried mutton supplied to him at defendant's Throgmorton street branch gave him ptomaine poisoning, was opened in the King's Bench Division yesterday. Mr Hugh Montagu Skeate, a member of the London Stock Exchange, alleged negligence and breach of warrantv on the part of Messrs Slater's. Mr Skeate and a friend, it was stated, lunched at the branch in Throgmorton street on February 20 last. They had curried mutton, bread and butter, and potatoes, and shared a bottle of champagne. Afterwards plaintiff was taken ill. He felt ill soon after lunch, an J had since been seen by five d ctors, including Dr. Willcox, the Home Office expert. Cross-examined, Mr Skeate said he had lunched since at the same restaurant. "Off curried mutton?" asked counsel. Plaintiff: No, thanks. I have had roast beef or roast mutton—something I could"see. (Laughter.) Mr Fernandez Clark, of Gerrard street, said from the symptoms and from what plaintiff said, he concluded he had eaten some poisoned food. Dr William Henry Willcox said he thought it most likely that the curried mutton had upset plaintiff; Dr John Inglis of, St. Leonaids-on-Sea, who attended Mr Skeatfe when he was in a nursing home last October, expressed the view that he was suffering from septic poisoning. The hearing was adjourned.