ENGLISH NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 September 1913, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS.

FROM THE LATEST FILES. LAW OP CALLING A CAB. The Bow Street magistrate decided that an hottel porter calling a taxicab for a guest wiho eventually did not use the conveyance was liable for the fare. David Isaacs, a driver, summoned Edward Allen, a porter at the Waldorf Hotel, for the recovery of eightpence. It wa§ stated that on August 7th, Allen called Isaacs from a rank to the hotel and placed some luggage upon the oab. The luggage was removed by another porter, and Isaacs was told that he was not wanted, whereupon he immediately lowered the flag and claimed eightpence from Allen, The magistrate decided that the porter was liable for the fare, and triade an order for him to pay the Bd, and 6s 6d oasts. HERO OF CAWNPORE. r The death occurred at Charlbury, Oxfordshire, at the age of eightyseven, of General Sir Martin Dillon, Colonel-Commandant of the Rifle Brigade since 1904. General Dillon, who entered the army in 1843, had a long and distinguished service in India, China, and Abyssinia. • He took part in the suppression of the Mutiny, and was dangerously wounded at Cawnpore, receiving two bayonet wounds and one sword wound GIRLS DEAUM TO DRESS. On the ground fthat girls are now mpre expensive to dress, Carmarthen Guardians f have decided to increase their "leaviiig for service allowance" from 15s to £l. Formerly the boys j received 5s more than the girls. In the discussion several snembers said they found their 'daughters much more expensive to dress than their sons. A .WIFE'S DOUBLE CRIME. At an inquest at Guernsey on a Frenchman named Buesson .twentyeight, and his wife, twenty-two, who were found with their throats out in a. field, a verdict was returned that the woman murdered her husband and committed suicide. It was 'Stated that quarrels had taken place between them following the wife's confession of having been unfaithful to her husband.

COLONIST'S £30,000 GIFT. A Scottish pioneer colonist, William Bobbie, who has died at Ballarat, in Australia, at the age of 91, has left £30,000 to Aberdeen University to establish scholarships. His relatives, it is .said, are to receive £6po and Ballarat Hospital £SO. Mr Robbie was a native of Birse, Aberdeenshire, where he was once a cobbler. He emigrated in the early 'forties, and after losing in a bank failure, a fortune which, he made in the gold fields, he became a prosperous sheep farmer. ; ; SLEEPING MAN'S 28FT. FALL. Climbing through a window while asleep, Mr William Sweet, a clerk, of ToJworth, near Surbiton (Surrey), fell 28ft, but received only slight injury to his left leg. Mr Sweet remained on the ground for three hours in his night clothes, unable to move, and when found by his brother was suffering greatly from exposure. DEATH OF A BANKER. Mr Frederick Cox, the senior partner in the firm of Messrs Cox and Co., the army agents and bankers, of Charing Cross, died at Fawley, Southampton, on Wednesday, at the age of seventy-eight. Mr Cox, who i« succeeded by his eldest son, M l '' Reginald Cox, owned Harefield Place, Uxbridge, and was High Sheriff of Middlesex in 1901.