NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 661, 14 January 1933, Page 22 (Supplement)

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

ST. PAUL’S TRYST. Three elderly men sang “ Auld Lang Syne ” on the steps of St. Paul’s Cathedral one evening recently. In fulfilment of a pact of friendship, made 27 years ago, they met, and later dined together. The trio were survivors of eight men who in 1905 were on the office staff of Dr. Barnardo’s Homes. They were Mr. H. J. Artis (57), of Slough (Bucks), Mr. W. E. Horn (54), of Brockley, and the Rev. J. P. Goodenough (54), of Clapham. FIRE PERIL AFTER A BIRTH. Mrs. W. Dowding, of Council Houses, Appleford, near Abingdon, Berkshire, had to leave home hurriedly in her night clothes early in the morning, only three hours after giving birth to a child, as the house was on fire. She carried her infant, and, although she received slight burns, the baby was unharmed. The house was destroyed, and Mr. and Mrs. Dowding lost all their belongings. A Pomeranian dog, which was burnt to death, gave an alarm by barking, and it was heard by neighbours. BANISHED WITH HIS HAREM. Ipumbu, the unruly chief of the Ukuambi tribe, is to be banished to Kuringhuara, one of the most isolated regions in South-West Africa, on an allowance of 10/ a week. Formerly the chief of 10,000 people in Ovamboland, he was deposed when aeroplanes and armoured cars were 6ent against him because he defied the Government. When in banishment he will be under the surveillance of the Native Commissioner. His family and as many wives as wish to accompany him will be allowed to do so. At some future date the ex-chief may be allowed to return to Ovamboland, but this will depend on his conduct in exile.

BREATHES BY MACHINERY. A boy who breathes by machinery, James M. Turner, of Wimbledon, who is lying in a steel box at the Wingfield Morris Orthopaedic Hospital, near Oxford, suffering from infantile paralysis, is stated to be making a remarkable recovery. His condition was so bad that his breathing was affected and his life in danger. It was decided to use an apparatus known as the “ Drinker Respirator.” When the boy was first put into this steel case he could not breathe. Now he can breathe almost normally. The apparatus is so constituted that it can make a patient breathe at normal speed. A vacuum is created which causes the chest to rise, after which a pump fills the case with air and the chest relaxes.

IS IT A GAME? An ingenious American is now marketing a bridge table which shuffles and deals the cards by electricity, relieving the players of all manual labour. And so the next step will be a machine for working out to the fifth decimal point the value of these hands on which we are expected in modern bridge to give our partners so much information. Having accomplished that perhaps somebody will suddenly realise realise that bridge, like other card games, is still played by some people as a recreation. LIFE-TIME MAKING JAM. The man who fed the troops on plum and apple jam during the war, Air. Tiiomas George Tickler, celebrated ins 80th birthday recently. So well known was Tickler s jam during the war that the work “tickler” came to mean jam—any sort, whether made by Mr. Tickler or not. Mr. Tickler, who is at his office every day from 9.15 to 5 o’clock, told a Press representative how he came to make jam. “I was running a grocery and corn factor’s business in Grimsby 54 years ago,” he said. “Thinking that jam would be a good proposition, I made a ton or so in a boiler in the back kitchen, and from that day onwards I have done nothing but make jam.”

EARLY ART IN AFRICA. Dr. Leo Frobenius, the famous German explorer of Africa, has made discoveries of considerable interest during an expedition to areas of the desert plateau of the Fezzan in Italian Tripolitania not hitherto scientifically explored. These consist chiefly of prehistoric pictures and reliefs in rock galleries of the low-lying hills. Some drawings of animals, including crocodiles, rhinoceroses, and even giraffes, are of life-size. The artistic skill varies from extreme primitiveness to great beauty. Dr. Frobenius does not hesitate to compare some of the reliefs with Egyptian art of the same type. Representations of human activities abound, the favourite subjects being hunting, dancing, and religious scenes. DICKENS AND NEWSVENDORS. The newsboy who drops papers in the letter box each morning in London may one day have urgent need of the assistance of the Newsvendors’ Benevolent Institution, which holds its festival on November 15. Exactly 70 years ago Charles Dickens, who presided over the annual festival dinner, created a precedent by inviting women—an experiment which brought many women to become subscribers to the institution. This year, for the first time in history, a woman will sit in the chair. She is Miss Alice Head, the managing director of the National Magazine Company. Anyone connected in any way with the publishing, 'retailing or wholesaling of newspapers and kindred publications is eligible for membership of “Old Ben,” as the institution is known. CAT THAT WAITED FOR THE QUEEN. Here is the story of the cat that went to sleep on the running-board of the Queen’s motor car when she was shopping in the West End of London recently. His name is Tim, and he is the pet of Miss E. Winsall, of Clifford Street, Bond Street, London. “The Queen was shopping next to me,” said Miss Winsall, “and Tim, deciding to make her acquaintance, went out and dozed on the running-board of her car, refusing to move until she came out herself. Tim, who is two years old, is an amazing cat. He seems to be drawn towards Royalty. Only about ten days previously Princess Helen of Rumania was shopping near here, and Tim walked into the shop and went up to her. I heard afterwards that she -was charmed with him, and said, ‘Oh, what a jolly cat!’ Everyone around here knows Tim. He wanders round alone, travelling up to Piccadilly and back, and he never gets lost. Policemen tell me that when he wants to cross the road he waits on the pavement until some pedestrians are about to cross, then Tim runs across beside them.”

WOMAN POSES AS HUSBAND. A remarkable story of a woman wh for twelve years passed herself off as man, and earned her living by the mo( virile occupations, was unfolded in a trii before the Mainz Courts. Maria Em mann was the wife of a goldsmith, bt their marriage was dissolved m 191 Thinking it easier for a man than for woman to find work, she donned an oi suit of her husband’s clothes, and wit the help of his insurance card assume his identity. To complete the disguise si persuaded a friend, another divorce woman, to live with her as her “wife, and gave herself out as the father of th friend’s two children. Her strange caree was ended by an injury to her hand. Sh was sent to hospital, where her secre was discovered. GIRL SEIZED IN STREET. The alleged attempt to kidnap a youn girl, and the discovery of five little gii l whose mothers arc said to have l»en sen abroad to South America, are the latea developments in the Marseilles polic researches into the white slave tratfk Since they arrested two men and a wonn at the beginning of the month, the polic believe they arc on the track of a van organisation for dealing in women. Tii alleged kidnapping attempt occurred i broad daylight. It is stated that a gii of 18, named Rosa Reinert, was seized i a street just behind the Bourse an bundled into a motor car, in which sh was taken to a house at Gardanne, noa Aix. Two men, alleged to be notonou white slave traffickers, have been arreete in connection with the affair. WIRE TO A JUDGE. In passing sentences ranging from si weeks to a year’s imprisonment at New castle Assizes on seven men, who wer charged with riot and assault following means test demonstration at North Shield* Mr. Justice Goddard mentioned a tek gram which be received soon after th opening of the trial. The telegram, h said, read;—“Mass meeting of 500 in New castle last night demand acquittal c North Shields unemployed.” His lore ship added:—“lt is difficult to understan in these days how anybody can be h foolish or wrongheaded as to think the can interfere in this way with the cours of justice. People who send these tele grams cannot know that it is gross Coi tempt of court, for which they are liabl to receive a heavy sentence.”

ARTIFICIAL HEART AND LUNGS. Dr. Bruchinenko’s “artificial heart goes from strength to strength, and no> holds out an immediate hope of perfom ing major cardiac operations on hums beings. Already more than a dozen dog have had their hearts dissected durin the last two years, but all survive i normal health. One operated on durin four minutes and a half had its hear literally cut up and then sewn up in 1 different places by Professor Terebinsl with the help of Dr. Bruchinenko’ “artificial heart,” which consists of a i»ei fectly balanced circulation pump connecte up with the vascular system after th real heart has been disconnected. Th special chemical substance injected prt vents the blood from congealing durin this marvellous preliminary operation, an afterwards while the real heart is bein linked up again. This substance keeps th blood in perfect condition for man hours. SWAPPED JOB TRAGEDY. A man who died in hospital at Carlis as a result of the explosion in the Mai Chester Corporation Waterworks tunne had only two hours before exchange places with a mate, who, some distant away, was unhurt. Harry Tosh, wh regularly works as a spannerman on th drilling machine at the rock face, ha complained of feeling unwell, and Fredei lek Kyle, aged 21, took his place. Tos went to work as a shovelman instead < Kyle. When the explosion occurred Kyi was one of six men who were serious] injured, and he died. The other fiv injured are Andrew . Lindsay, Robei Duncan, James Waters, Patrick Colgai and Patrick Smith. The hero of the e: plosion was James Gebbie, a young ate< handler, who, though himself injured an suffering from shock, went to the aid < the men who were more badly hurt. Wit °i! j made several journeys to th shaft-head, a mile and a quarter away

NAVAL OFFICER SENTENCED. Commander J. G. Sutton, of H.Ma Resource, was found guilty of the man slaughter of a Limasoi (Cyprus) hotel keeper named Apostolides, and was sen tenced to six months’ imprisonment Notice of appeal was given, and the sen tence was suspended pending the heariai of the appeal. Bail of £3OO was allowed The verdict was followed by a dramatu incident, Commander Sutton exclaimin; emphatically: “ I did not strike the man I have a clear conscience about thii matter.” The prosecution alleged that i quarrel broke out between the hotel keeper and Commander Sutton, folio wing his return to the hotel with & Turkial dancing girl. The court considered th* the evidence showed that some troubh had occurred at the hotel, and drew th< inference that Commander Sutton ha< struck Apostolides. The court refused ai application for compensation made or behalf of Apostolides’ widow and children