HERE AND THERE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17381, 8 November 1924, Page 8

HERE AND THERE.

AN EYE FOR EVERYTHING. ' ONE MAN FIGHTS THREE. Attacked by three armed and marked | men. Mr Digby Hussey ue Burgh, tin* ; well-known lai mer and landowner «>f I Dromkeen, /County Limerick, turned | upon them and shot two of his assailants. One of the men was seriously wounded. Mr de Burgh himself received only a slight flesh wound. | WOMEN STRUCK IN A TENT, j During n carnival at Seaton Carew, ! Hartlepool a tent on the beach was } struck by Ightning. Six women sufferIcd severely from the shock. There was a loud explosion in the tent, and a wireless set which was installed was shattered GOLD IN WALE?. With the official opening of the Caio Alluvial Gold Mines, Limited, in a marshy field at Caio. North Carmarthenshire (Wales), recently, first gold was struck on a site which nearly 1700 y ears -ago was worked for gold by tho Romans. There are no records to show how 7 much gold the Romans extracted or the precise methods they employed, but the old workings are there as silent witness that- the mine' were carried on for a. long period - These samples yielded free gold to the value of from 5s to 9s a cubic yard, and the working is expected to give substantial profits* CHURCH SERVICE IN THE RAIN. The Dean of Manchester. Dr J. GM Cormick. died lately, following an operation. Dr M’Cormick. who was 50 years of age. was the youngest, dean in England. He was the son of a wellknown cricketer. the late Canon Joseph M’Cormick. He himself played for Norfolk in his younger day?, and was a great lover of sport to the end. The Dean’s unconventional methods made, him very popular in Manchester. To toko the church to the people he once led the congregation from the cathedral en mass© to the slums and held the service there in pouring rain.

VISCOUNT GREY’S BONFIRE. Viscount Grey of Fallodon. who lately retired from the leadership of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords, will now be able to carry out a little scheme he planned many years ago. In. replying to a ioast at a recent function. Lord Grey referred to the day when he would shake the dust of Westminster from his feet. The first thing lie would do, he said, when that, happy time arrived was to make a huge bonfire of his political newspaper clippings, pamphlets, blue hooks and Hansards. I think of the splendid time I shall have when making that bonfire.” Lord Grey said. “ How I shall stir the fire, and how I will mulch my rose trees with the ashes!” FIVE MILES’ WALK IN SLEEP. Hatless, barefooted, wearing pyjamas with a broad red stripe and carrying under Ttis arm a parcel resembling a banjo, a middle-aged man named Frank Humby, of Brighton, was found in Woking, Surrey, about 4 o’clock one morning recently. Humby was at first taken to be a street performer. He was not interfered w ith until a railway xx-orker informed the police that the man was apparently walking in his sleep- The man was found to be in a semi-conscious condition, and was taken to hospital suffering from loss of memory. He had walked five miles from Woodham, where he had been staying. V IMMORTAL AVAR PHRASE. Most of the jargon which the British soldiers learned during the war disappeared with the doffing of blue or khaki, but there occurs to-day, says a “ Morning PofcV” writer, the tenth anniversary of what was apparently the first use of a phrase which is still employed on occasions. “ There is a certain liveliness,” read the official description of what was happening at sea, and lo! the words had come to stay. “ A certain liveliness ” came to be used to describe all sorts of situations, and while “Napoo,” “Umpteen,” “ Sanfairyan,” and kindred terms have passed to their natural end, those three words seem to have mastered the secret of immortality.”

THE SAINT OF THE ROAD. Some hundreds of French motorists recently assembled in a little village near Ar gen tan, in Normandy, to do honour to St Christopher-le-Jajolet, a half-forgotten saint, who is now being claimed as the patron of all who use the road. According to legend, fct Christopher-le-Jajolet, who was of giant stature, crossed the river Jordan one dark night, when the waters ran stronglv, bearing the Divine Infant on bis shoulder. Over 100.000 motorists, cyclists, airmen and others are said to have formed themselves into a brotherhood of sportsmen whose spiritual home is the ancient church of this little Norman village, where rests a gilded reliquary containing the bones ot the saint. CAR TN A RIVER. Mr IT. J Johnston, of South Croydon. was driving a motor ear in briars Lane. Richmond, which lead* from Richmond Green lo the Thames, when the car fell over the embankment into the river. Mr Johnston was pinned beneath it and drowned. A friend. Air Derek Robertson, of Burdett Road. Bow. E.. who was with him. was also thrown into the water, but swam ashore unhurt. It is believed that Mr Johnston took the wrong turning. and did not know lie xvas proceeding towards the river. Friars Lane is a narrow thoroughfare overhung with trees, and is very dark at night. There are two right-angle turnings in it. the second onlv a few yards from the river.