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Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 2025, 15 September 1913, Page 3

LATEST HOME NEWS.

FROM THE FILES.

WOOLWICH HERMITS

MAN WHO STUFFED HIS EARS AND NOSE WiTH PAPER

London, August 1.

Two extraordinary persons discovered by a lady sanitary inspector at W< olwich are mentioned in the annual report of the Medical Officer of Healtn Mrs M. occupied one room, and was so 1 elpless she had not was ed and combed for weeks • A cupboard wa9 kept for the exclusive use of fonr cats, which were not allowed outside. No dishes were washed after meal times, but were reposited on t e fl or. The bed was never made nor the window opened. Mr S., an ol : pensioLer, not oily closed his fireplace and window and heated his room by oil stove, but was so much alraid of coin and damp t at he rubbed himself with mustard oil instea of washing, and kept his ears and nostrils packed with pieces of newuaper.

SIX HOURS TO PARIS.

NEW VESSEL AND SHORTER ROUTE VIA NEWHAVEN.

Absolutely watertight, nnsiukbale, and the fastest of its size in the world, a vessel has just been put into the cross-Uhauuel service of t e London, Brighton, and South, (Joaet Railway between Newhaven ami Dieppe. The Paris, as it is named, is a geared turbine-driven steamer, built by Messrs Denny Bro?., of Dubarton. It can oevelop speed of 25 kuots, the journey from port to port being peiforinel in 2% hoars. Even ui re important- than the saving of time which the n3W vessel effects is the safety seemed t' the travelling public,cjmbined with the acme of comfort Watertight bulkheads, in w;ich no openings of any kind are permitted, are use.i throng out the ship. Bathrooms fur passengers, sum tuously iittcd p ivate cabins obtainable on most mo.erate te ms; dining an smoking rconis framed in oak mahogany, stfam heating by radiators, and electric light fvruishe by a generating plant set up in u'dicite are amoug the many features of this miniature floating pi 8 Of, Oil the French si e a new route, lias been opene ' to Paris via Pont oiso, saving 20 miles of route and an h ur in poiut of time. In addition, it furnia es a route to Paris without tuuneis. Next jesr it is hoped to institute a nix hour service between London an : Paris via Nevehaven an: Dieppe.

GREAT HUMAN CAUSE

CONGO ASSOCIATION AND SUCCESS OF LIS WORK.

A retrospect of the work of the Corgo Rcdoiin Association, which voluutarily dissolved itself on Jane 16, having accomplished its labours, after an existence of nine years and three mouti.p, is contained in the final issue of the association's official organ. 'T e association," writes the editor, "carried its indictment to the four corners of t;.e e&rth. it was not one w ich the world ccnli igno o. Every count in it was denie.i by the powerful forces which the asiojatioa set out to combat. Every count has loDg since been proved to the hilt. The association has never had §.to rftraot a single one of its c' arges. "It has prcvad four thins?, which are these:—An evil, however great, however fortified by wraltI', 1 ', supports by influence an 1 ? romote' by intrigue, cannot in the ultimate reeorfe withstand disinterested assault It is possible for men differ ing in politics evea nationality to combine in common and effective actios against systematic wrong doiDg "Britain's national life is still responsive to ti«e appeal ol a great human cause. British public opinion can prove itself on occasion the most unselfish and thn most powerful force for io d in international affairs. For tat proof (lie world is t e richer."

'TOWARDS ROMS.'

MIDDLESEX PARI3HONERS AND THEIR RECTOS.

London, 1

Pensioners of Kaye : , Mid leses, objected, at a Consistory Court hel i in St. Paul's Cat e ral yesterday. to the presence in St. Mary's Church cf a painting of the Crucifixion. Tfce Hector, t e Rev. E. R. Hudson, askp for a confirmatory faculty. One witness, Walter Ayres, asssrted that at a mission c ure'i "a wafer-like bread" was <nsed for the Communion service, and he ob-. jected to this ai baring* "a teuuency towards Rome ""' In his view the Rector "looked" the vestiy meeting by saying he would take the picture down, bat he did not do so. The picture as unnecessary, and members'©ft ; e congregation had told ;im that it was offensive to them.

George Low, a meinfecr of the District Council, sai he >.ad only feeeu t; Sf> Mary's Ohurc > twice-since tie Rector came thera, and that was twice too many. (La gfcttr) He objected to the pictare being in tiie cnußph as ' a st*-p ie the wrong directive." Thi Recfc r refused to allow aa artificial wreath to be piace on although e aifcerwaids gaise way on the p&i'it

Witness .-said that if t'ie Reafcor tad given feaui a pouch on the head it coal i notfeave offended him mo-re 4han he «4 over the artitictel ikvreath. He would never letarn -to the c urch unless the Rector turned os.er a complete new leaf. Tue hearing was adjournal.

SWIMMING BABIES.

PROF&SSOR HENRY'S VIEW OF Tim INFANT'S PERFORMANCE.

London, Angnsfc 1

The story of the baby whioli swam as soon as it was put into the sea, though receive! with so muc*i laughter at the British Medical

Association Congress on Wednesday, is taken more seriously by Professor Henry (the secretary cf the Royal Life Saving Society.) The professor, it is true, is dispose* to regard the infant's exploit as "an accident " "Jt is possible," he caiii tu one of our rep esentatives yester ay, "that the caild's arms and legs were moved before its immeision in accordance with the ordinary swimming movement, ana t ereafter it continued the movement uuconsoiously. "It is also possible," he adde', f'chat the fcad in'eritad the instinct for the: swimming movement." Accoiding to Professor Hen y, swimming ability often "goes in families"; and he mentioue I a caso of a six months' oH child, which floated in a swimming bath in the presence of an audience.

WILL STICK TO THE VEIL.

WOMEN UNMOVED BY THE WARNING AGAINST MICROBE

CATCHERS.

(Daily News Correspondent). Paiis, August 2

A rumour has been current during the last few r ays to the effect that tie la y of fashion has decided to wear the veil no longer It appears that a certain well known and fashionable doctor has made t e discovery that veils catch gemis by the milliou, on the principle of the fishing net, and tfrat ever since the veil—or the germ, wind ever is the ol er—came into existence women have been going about unconsciously trawling and catching all kinds of horri i animals. That at least was how the doctor ma;ie it out, but he has not succeeded in killing the veil. I made inquiries in the higher millinery quarters to-day, and was told, in almost every case that tte veil is not going by any manner of means. At the Maisou Leis I hear; that ladies are going to flout the doctor by wearing thicker veils than ever.

Some of them S6em to be almost opaque, wbici is a further deiiance of t;;e elector, for he says that, besides their other iniquities, veils are great destroyers of the eyesight —but he says in vain. Veils are the very last things women would take off, says the expert.

FIERCE SABRE DUEL

BETWEEN GERMAN GENERAL AND COLONEL.

Be lin, August 3

A duel wit'i sabres, virtually to the death, took place at Landan, Bava.ia, between a lieutenantcolonel and a major general attache! t e sth Artillery Regiment. The colonel made a disrespectful remark about t e general's stepdaughter wiilst the latter was dancing a turkey trot cr similar dance with a lieutenant.

T< e general demanded a duel with pistols, but a Court of Honor appointed sabres. T.e colonel was so seriously inj red about the head that tie is net expected to recover.

DERELICT BOMBS

CHILDREN INJURED AT LIS-

BON BY EXPLOSIONS

Lisbon. August 8

Lislou is s ffering Iroin an epidemic if bombp, t'.:e victims of winch are chiefly innocent children. On Wednesday two children were injuraed by an explosion on the beach at Parede. "Y ester ay teven children, playing in the street of a thickly populated quarter of t e ijowd, found a bomb w ioh exploded, and one has since died. Two others are in a daug?roos con itioo iu hospital, another has had a leg amputated, whilst another lost hot \ hands. , . , * Bombs continue to be collected A cart load of ten b xes was yeskr &y conveyed to t e Arsenal. To Gov ■ eminent is asking all defenders of t:-e Republic still possessing bombs to deliver thtin to the police authorities.