NEWS AND NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20106, 13 May 1935, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

The final figures for the Poppy Day appeal in North Taranaki make the total £561, compared with £B6B last year.

Reference to the origin of the sea training fund Of the Canterbury branch of the Navy League was made at a meeting of the general committee of the league in response to a question by the recently elected president, Sir Robert Clark-Hall. The treasurer, Mr T. H. Poster, explained that the income from the fund, which amounted to £230. was about £l3 a year. The fund was begun when Lieutenant Shackleton went to the Antarctic. A bazaar was held and a considerable sum of money was raised. They had found little opportunity of spending the money, but had wasted £SO on a whaler for a corps of sea scouts, which soon heeame defunct. Now they had a good object in fostering sea cadets. The fund had been in existence for twenty years.

The disturbed state of the world was referred to at jhe Silver Jubilee dinner of the Auckland branch of the Overseas League on Monday evening. Sir George Richardson, who gave an address on “The Lives of King George and Queen Mary,” referred to the war period and the part played by the King. Subsequently the Mayor, Mr G. W. Hutchison, in the course of a brief speech, said he did not hink that another war was imminent, despite all that one read in the newspapers. The same view was not held by Sir Frank Fox, the noted writer on Empire questions. When called upon to speak, he said he could not agree with the Mayor, Personally he was in possession of information which made him feel doubtful, for peace. The world was in a most quarrelsome mood, which could easily end in another trial of strength.

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There was a distressing scene at the West Hendon Baptist Church, London, an March 16, when in the middle of a wedding ceremony the bridegroom refused to marry the bride. The couple were Leslie Francis Hitching, of Hendon, and Miss Eva Mary Horton, ol Mansfield, Notts. The bride is 22. The service was proceeding, but when the minister, the Rev. H. S. Rudge, asked the bridegroom whether he would take the woman for his lawful wedded wife, the young man shook his head and repjied, “j cannot say that.” Unable to proceed, the minister asked the bride and her attendants to sit down, and took the young man into the vestry. He was, however, unable to bring about an agreement, and the couple left the church unmarried. Miss Horton, who returned home to Mansfield. said she saw Kitching before returning home, and asked for an explanation. He said very little beyond assuring her that there was no other girl. This was the third time Hitching had postponed the wedding. The first time was in September, and again in December. “He had bought fi wedding ring and a cake, and I have spent a considerable sum of money on things for the flat in which we were to live.” she added.

Road vehicle licences in Britain during the twelve months ended November 30 brought in £32 587,589, the total number being 2,116,582. “When interviewed by the police the defendant said that motor cars had been travelling along the road at such a rate that he had not been able to make any progress on his motor cycle. Therefore, as a protest, he threw a stone at complainant’s car,” said Sergeant G. Bonisch in the Napier Magistrate’s Court, in outlining the facts in connection wit' a charge of throwing a stone tq the danger of another person. preferred against Alexander Maxwell. of Kotemaori. motor driver. Mr J. G. L. Hewitt, S.M. ‘‘l can understand the feeling. We sometimes feci like throwing hombs at motor cyclists.” Sergeant Bonisch said that Ur L. F. Speechlv, a commercial traveller, had driven his car from Wairoa to Napier on March 24 last. When near Tutira he noticed two men standing on the oad alongside a motor cycle. As he drew level with them, one of the men threw a stone at the ear. fortunately missing the windscreen and hitting the door. Mr Speeohly ascertained the name of the man, who. when Interviewed by the poliee, admitted the offence. The magistrate imposed a conviction and a fine of 10 -, costs 10/-.