HOME AND FOREIGN.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6488, 7 April 1908, Page 8

HOME AND FOREIGN.

IJIG JEWEL ROBBERY

X?nn WORTH MISSING. Early on Uir morning of February Icth Iho of Ganiiige, Ltd., <0 Holborn, l/indon. were broken into by four men, who, after forcing tim mullock of him iron railing*. broke Urn largo plain fjia.ss shop front of tho jow'dlciy department, and gold and silver watches, gold nnd pearl ring*, and ollior jewellery to Hu- value of X2on were stolen. information, however, had quirkly been given to the eon.stnblo on the beat, who was successful in apprehending James Wooda, ft voung lal/ourcr. who, after a rhase, Raid--"!!’* all right;. I’ve got the lot.” lie, however, had in his poreession only two gold, three silver, and five pearl mounted watches, bop idea a number of gold rings and chains. Tho other men had made good their rowipe.

nmr,r ast lrn e n t il\ ok fra i : os. ATr George Tnghnn, who was nrrosied an February lith at Queenstown on the arrival of the While Star liner Celtic in eonnection with the linen Irado frauds, which are alleged to have taken place recently in Belfast, was brought before the Belfast magistrates on Saturday charged with having on September 2, feloniously slolen ten webs of black linen Holland, and abo on divers other dates fit tho same place within the past three years several other quantifies of linen, live property of the complainants, William Kirk and PartneiG (limited;. He i vas remanded. GREAT THEFT IN PEARLS, FORTUNE IN A NECKLACE. A Berlin dispatch dalcrl Sunday, February 15, nays: Pearls .'valued at -Cl 3.550, belonging to the Countess von Wnrhemdohen, have been stolen. The jewelconsist principally of a necklace of pearls, tho Jarjoejjfc being in the centre, and the others diminishing in size towards tho ends. Tho necklace, which is worth .£12,500. io nearly sfl. long, and is made up of four string:!, each of which could ho used as a separate chain. A pin with a particularly large white pearl valued at jjRSO is also mining. Tho Countess von Whirlendebon on returning from the theatre took off the pearls in her bedroom, placing them in the jewel case, and went to the dining rcom and had ten. She returned to the bedroom half an hour later, and found the jewels gone. No trace has been found of tho thief, but the Countess a maid has been arrested on etiepicion.

LAND FOR EX-SLAVES. Airs Yznaga, the mother of Conmielo Duchess of Manchester nnd Lady ListerKayo, who died recently, leaving property worth .£IOO,OOO, provides in her will for the negroes on her Louisiana plantations. A tract of 430 acres of land is to bo divided between several "negro friends,’' nnd in tho will Airs Yznnga indicates that sho is very solicitous that all the poor and helpless negroes on her estate nnd all who eared for her during her old ago should bo provided for. "I have in tho savings bank,” she adds, "small sums for each negro friend herein mentioned,” and she then gives their names. Some of the negroes nro ex-slaves.

STARTLING THE POLICE. Tho gendarmes at Biily-Montigny saw a woman coming to tho polioo station the other night with a big chain round her neck, which rattled at every movement Hie made. She looked (the Paris correspondent of tho "Telegraph” says) as weird ns the tale sho told. She was living with her husband and a grownup son in a house near the Grande Place, and, because they disagreed with her, they made it a practice to chain her to the bod post, releasing her only on Saturdays, when she had to clean the house. On this particular occasion sho happened to find a way of breaking loose from, tho bed-post, nnd came away, chain nnd all, to inform the police and ask for redress. The husband and fon were summoned, and they are alleged to have declared that the chaining was the only rfficncious way they found to prevent her from excessive indulgence in liquor. GERMAN LABOUR CONDITIONS. LONG HOURS AND LOW WAGES. With regard to the news from Berlin of the large and increasing number of unemployed in Germany, it may be of interest (says "Tho Times”) to note the following figures quoted in a recent paper lead before the German Volkflpartei, bv Dr Ludwig Haas, of Karlsruhe. PrcsGons of hairpins in tho Tannus district receive $d per 1000, and cannot earn more than 7d to 8d per day of 14 or 15 working hours. In tho steel goods industry at Solingen a whole family, by working day and night, cannot manage to earn more than I4s to 15s a week.

In Thuringen wooden pipes with stems nre turned out at a wage pf Is 3id per gross. By working 16 hours a day a skilled workman can produce four or five gross a week, and thus earn 5s to 6s. The workman has to supply the wood, which—and this is a peculiar sidelight—tho employer takes for granted is stolen. Where tho raw material is bought, as, for instance, in tho pianufacture of tho “horso and waggon,” wooden toys, a family of five can produce ton dozen per week,-for which they receive JJI 4s. but ns tho raw material costs 10s, this leaves them only 14s. In tho ready-made clothing business matters appear to bo worse. Erfurt mantlemaker© receive 6a a week if they wo especially efficient needlewomen, while others only cam 3s Gd a week. It is further reported that in Stettin children’s suite are turned out at a wage ranging between 3s and 4s per dozen, so that the worker earns from 6d to 9d per day. A roport from on inspector of factories at Dussolford showed that tho women employed in tho sewing of dolls earn 6s to 7s a week by working fiom 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. The long hours are. of oourso, the natural sequence < f the low wages paid:—ln Berlin and i>reslan needlewomen work 14 to 16. hour a day, and in many other towns their ■condition is not much better. LIFE'S SEAMY SIDE. A CORONER'S ADVICE AND OFFER. Tho adjourned inquest on tho body of Wm. Glover, tho six-weeks-old son of Arthur and Mary Glover, took place at the Coroner's Court, Warrington, on Monday, 17 Febiuary. Dr Smith paid ho had made a postmortem examination. The body weighed exactly six pounds. There were no marks of violence on tho body, and there was a very fair amount of fat internally, which ©bowed that the child was well nourished. Tho were healthy with the exception of the brain •nd lungs, which were slightly congested. a condition which was present after convulsions. Ho was of opinion that the child died from natural cause©. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence, and requested the Coroner to censure tho mother.

Inspector Cor, of tho N.S.P.C.C., siid ho had had the worruyi under observation sinco 1905, and aho bad been sent to gaol for thro© months for neglecting her children. When oho was m drink oho was almost insane, and ©very effort to reform her had been fruitless. Th® Coroner advised the husband unless his wife improved to apply to the magistrates for a separation order, on tho ground that she was an habitual drunkard, and the magistrates had the ■power then to send her to an inebriates’ homo. Ho then told tho woman that this was her last chance, and he ad•risod her to keep off tho drink, and afc-

li.n'l Iri tin- linrno 1 >ot, 1 er. If im (tlic Goroiif:-) iv.-is Ii <-r liiii-ham! lifl would iliml with her in a <liff<n't>nt way, an<t woaM rnro her ia a wc"k, Arl'li-’-AsinK Hi'" hur-htriKl tho . Coronet ; ;ai<) -Givd her a Rood liunimeriiiß, and never mind tho ißogistrutos convicting von of aosmilt. „ , I.l'over—.Slid will giro mo one. Only tho Other day oho threw n soda-v.-ntor i.oltdo at rno. . Tho Coroner— If you can’t do it, fend for me. I know how to deal with women of your wife's fort. INDIAN FRONTIER. EXPEDITION. Tho Indian flintier expedition under General Willem ks advanced with such rapidilv that the Zakka Kind--, who had been. ii.K fortification?, were taki n by snrprifc. The occond rear-iierl /akka Kticl?. on i-Mi f'V.},i*narv, after’ come fighting. Evidently tho ’natives had not expeeird Di" l u’it’oh fared until the following tiny, rnd tiiey were an .hie .00.-u|.y the:!’ ronjfMd tv*iHon, which in now held by tiro ecu. , forth lliKhianders. Private Robert lordvee. of the Seaforth Hi«hlander?, a nativo of Banffshire, was klllod />y onipoiv, and Onnner If. Salter wounded. General Sir Will cooks and Lieutenant: Colonel Rods [veppet’s column? have joined and moved on Chena. The Kdh Sikhs, who formed the escort for a la rye convoy from Chora to Chena, were attacked ’by the enemy from «_H11 ( in considerable force. General Uillroeks ordered them to take tho hill by storm, onpporlin(t them with the Soaforth Hishlandcrs and a number of tjuns. Tho lull wa? rnrricd, but the enemy did not wait for tho bayonet charefe. fur casnatildes were two Sikhn: daiißcrwisly wounded. Genor.il Witleorks has telegraphed a list of rasuall ies suffered whan tho troops were return ins? to alder ties! loving the fortified ‘ towers of Chinar. The list indude* Soco n< I - Lie utpn an t Tnn C. Alacfadycn, attached to tho Seaforths, dangerously wounded; Licut'iinut J. I’. Ring. and Lieutenant P. A, F. W. a’Bcckctt. both of No. 3 Afountain Rattory. slightly wounded. , An artillery f.Argcnnt. two gunners, and a private of the ScMforlhs were also wounded. | LIVERPOOL SOLICITOR. SHOT. A sensational incident occurred in Liverpool on tho 13th February. Just about five o’clock when Costlo Street, in tho centre of the city, was busy with merchants and professional gentlemen leaving their offices for homo, a man with a revolver in his hand dashed cut of No. 14, chasrd hotly by two clerks. He raced along Castle Street, dodging through tho people towards Exchange Street East, nnd the policeman on duty opposite tho Town Hall joined in the chase. Then the mysterious stranger turned in his flight and fired a shot at his pursuers, fortunately without inflicting any injury. The next moment the man was captured and taken to the Central Police Station. Tt was then acccrtftincd that bo had deliberately shot and wounded in bis office Air J. W. Alsop, a leading solicitor of the city, and a gentleman well known as a City Councillor, a member of tho University Executive, and a prominent educationist. One shot penetrated Air Alsop’s left arm, but the other, fortunately, missed its aim. Air Alsop's assailant is named William Stanley Vaughan, and nothing is known of him, except that he lodged in Liverpool, was formerly a client of Air Aisop, nnd was apparently well-to-do and of no occupation, although he styled himself nn agent. After being examined by tho prison doctor, he was certified to be suffering from delusions, and was removed to tho workhouse hospital. A remarkable coincidence is that in 1877 Air Alsop was present, at the sensational shooting affair in Liverpool when a local solicitor named Holland was shot by a lady. Mr Alsop was at the time in consultation with Air Holland, and when tho fatal shot was fired be seized thg assailant nnd held her rntil assistance came. The woman was sentenced to death but was respited. A NOTED FENIAN. DEATH OF "COLONEL” KELLY. The New York nepers announce the death of Colonel Thomas F. Kelly, who took a leading part in the Ifenian agitation. Kelly was arrested in Alanchester in September, 1867, but was rescued from custody and escaped to America. The death of "Colonel” Kelly recalls one of tho most exciting chapters in tho history of the Fenian movement. On September 18, 1867, Kelly and a companion named Densy were arrested as vagrants in Manchester, and in the course of their examination before the Magistrates it turned out that they wFre two notorious Fenians. They were, of course, remanded for further inquiry, and it was on their way to prison in the police van that the incident occurred which cost Police-Ser-geant Brett his life. Tho van, which guarded by eleven policemen, had reached a point in Hydo Road where it is crossed by n viaduct when a volley was fired into it. Tho horses were killed, and the van was surrounded by an armed band of Fenians. Tho police were beaten off, and Sergeant Brett, who wao inside tho van, was shot with a revolver pushed through the grating, ou refusing to give up tho keys. The door of the van was fpreed, and Kelly and Deasy. although in irons, were hurried away. Several of those who took part in the raid were arrested, but Kelly and Deasy were never caught.

A MATTER OF CONVENIENCE. A curious story of credulity on the part of shopkeeper© was told the other day in a Paris court of law. Some time ago a well-dressed man, wearing a slip of ribbon in token of respectability, entered several shops and explained that, as his cook was quite an uneducated woman, ho would like to do his own marketing and pay hi© bills every month as a matter of convenience. The tradespeople trusted him on the strength of his air of gentility, and he proceeded to order freely. The extent of his purchases was noticed after a week or two* when tho trustful tradesmen began to make up their accounts. They then found that ho had been buying moro than enough for a largo household—enough, indeed, for a hotel. Tho milkman, for instance, discovered that his be-ribboned customer had had more than .C3O worth of milk, butter, and eggs in a few days; and other tradesmen had supplied goods in much tho came extravagant proportion. Their optionee being at last exhausted, tbo customer was brought before the Court, and as a result has been sentenced to ten months' imprisonment. Tho most extraordinary part of the story has yet to ho told. Even after the chief offender had been arrested his cook was allowed credit on a generous scale by some of tbo shopkeepers, who apparently were unwillingly to admit that they had been tricked; and in the end she, too, was sentenced, as an accomplice, to a term of four months' imprisonment.

THE BOMB THROWER. STORY OF A RUSSIAN PLOT. On February 18th. judgment was pronounced at Wadowice, Galicia, in tho trial of Wanda Dobrodzicka, a young Russian woman, charged with having thrown a bomb at General Shallon, Gov-ernor-General of Warsaw, on May 18th 1906. The indictment set forth the existence of a very skilfully devised plot to kill tho Governor-General. As he very seldom left the castle it was necsfjsarv to do something to oompel him to come out. Accordingly, one of the conspirators. in the unform of a Russian officer, grossly insulted the Gorman Vice-Consul. It became necessary, therefore, for the Governor-General to pay a personal visit to tho Vice-Consul, and express his re-

grot rffifhllv *ueh an oc-urrc-re This was exactly what the had reckoned upon, and they laid tirur plans accordingly. Wanda Dobrodzicka, who was only twenty years of age, was entrusted with the task of killing lh-> a hnlco-V ni the corner' of a street winch he would pass, nnd when his carriage came (the indictment declared; eho hurl,/i . t R-omb at it. Tim bornh, however, foiled to explode. In tho confusion tho woman escaped, and succeeded in making her way to Trir-Mw go.ng Gn ncc to [l;oly and Switzerland and afterwards coming to Galicia, where she married and settled down. She was arrested on October 20th, 1007, and the Russian Ooycrnment demanded her extradition. As, however, through her marriage «ho nad become an Austrian, subject, the cian authorities decided she must be tried in Galicia. The trial begin on Momlny. and th» jury on T»c.«day retumid a verdict of not guilty to both conn ns of th- - ' jndi'U mentv Acui-.i d w acquitted and immediately released, as j no notice of appeal was given by tho public prosecutor. , , Prisoner having been declared not | guilty by a Polish jury, notwithstanding! her full admission of having thrown Urn bombs, was accorded a great ovation by tho crowd, who presented her with flowers. TRIBUTE FROM IRELAND. DUBLIN’S MEMORIAL TO QUEEN VICTORIA. On February 15th. Lord Aberdeen unveiled a statue of Queen Victoria, which has been erected in Dublin by public subscription. A message from the King was vend, in which he s.nd:— My thoughts are with you on the occasion of your tinveiling, as my representative, the fltatuo of my belovr-d mother, Queen Victoria.” The fund for tho memorial wns started upwards of ten years ago bv some members of the Royal Dunlin Socictv, and tho movement was revived after the visit; of Queen Victoria to Ireland. Tho statue, which is the work of Air John Hughes, R.H.A., has been erected on tho lawn opposite the Leinster liouso premises of the Royal Dublin Society. When tho applause of the great assemblage of privileged spectators had subsided, his Excellency, in tho course or his speech, said that the statue possessed characteristics essential to any memorial of Queen Victoria—namely, high tone and high dignity, and that which forms an inherent part of true dignity—namely, simplicity. (Applause.) The historic position occupied by Queen Victoria unique. r.xHtcd ti ir rr, p f ’ part solitary, wnr> ono which appealed to tho imagination, and not only to tho Imagination, but tho heart of mankind, and the memory of Victoria ‘will ever be cherished by her people as that o| pie groat Queen whose name is identified with all the sanctities of home, and who was never more Queen than in the 7nanife < ?tati'-n of br-r wise and tender womanliness. (Applause.) Three hearty cheers for the e £UlPjj r nnd architect wore called for by the Lord-Lieutenant, and heartily given. Their Excellencies then returned to the Castle through the crowded streets by the same route as before.