WORLD’S HAPPENINGS.

Thames Star, Volume LIX, Issue 16799, 29 May 1926, Page 2

WORLD’S HAPPENINGS.

WOMAN JUROR FINED. A woman juror was fined 5/- at Marylebone County Court for being a quarter of an hour late in returning from luncheon. When asked by Judge Scully what kept her, she said she was very sorry. REPORTED £1,600,000 DEAL. Rumours have been current that a syndicate of Canadian and British capitalists interested in grain have bought from the Alberta Pacific Grain Elevator Company and Spiders Overseas, Ltd., their Canadian interests located in Alberta and on the Pacific Coast, for £1,600,000. 13,428 FEWER DOLES. The British Ministry of Labour states that the number of registered unemployed on February 22nd was 1,125,800. This was 13,428 fewer than the previous week, and 110,265 fewer than a year ago. It was stated that 864,673 persons normally in regular employment were wholly unemployed, that 204,615 were temporarily stopped, and that 69,942 were persons normally in casual employment. £30,000 FOR IMMIGRATION. Sir Robert Horne, at Glasgow, said he had received a gift of £30,000 from Mr. Leybourne Davidson, of Huntley, Aberdeenshire, to assist a scheme of emigration to the Dominions. It was learned after the meeting that Sir Robert will visit the Colonial Office to discuss the scheme, but no details are yet available. While abroad, Mr. Davidson thought there were many opportunities in the rubber industry for emigrants. THEATRE SCENE. ' A retired Colonel named Meinhold caused great excitement at a theatre in Vienna by rising suddenly from his seat in the stalls at the conclusion of the second act of “William Tell” and making an impassioned speech to the audience. He denounced Signor Mussolini, the Italian Premier, and called upon Austrians to display “patriotic enthusiasm” in South Tyrol. He was arrested, but later released on bail. SHOT BY A NAIL. An extraordinary street incident is described by a London correspondent, who writes:— “I was shot in the heel—not by a bullet, but by a nail! While walking in the Strand early one afternoon I received what I thought to be a vigorous kick in the heel. I swung round, but there was no clumsy fellow near, and, thinking no more of the matter, I walked half a mile to my office. “When I reached home, about eight in the evening, my heel muscles were i rigid and sore and on examining my : boot I was amazed to find a nail firmly f embedded in the heel. It had pierced ' the double leather and penetrated my foot. “I conclude that the nail, lying in the roadway, was hit by the wheel of a passing motor-vehicle and fired at me as from a gun.”

DECEASED WIFE’S NIECE. A Bill to amend the law which forbids persons to marry their nephews and nieces by marriage is to be introduced in the British House of Commons by Sir Arthur Shirley Bonn (Cons., Drake, Plymouth). It is called the Marriage (Prohibitive Degree of Relationship) Bill. If the Bill becomes law, a man will be able to marry his deceased wife’s niece, and a woman to marry her deceased husband’s nephew.