WORLD'S HAPPENINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15312, 13 August 1923, Page 9

WORLD'S HAPPENINGS.

MAN'S DISGUISE.

Passengers in a third-class compartment of an Accringlon to Cplnc train had a surprise just after leaving Nelson, when one big, bearded Irishman of a parly of live going to Colno fui haymaking, after speaking to a man on the platform, calmly pulled off his beard and moustache and a false nose, then quietly continued smoking his clay pipe.

FOUND AFTER 300 YEARS,

While digging in his garden at St. Lawrence, Pcrscy, Mr Esnouf Denize found a gold hand-beaten wedding ring bearing the name of Holier Hantonne. .

The woman's name has been traced in old records as having been alive in 1007, so that the ring must have been buried for some 300 years.

ENCORE CRAZE.

At the meeting in Manchester of the Halle Concerts Society, it was suggested that something should be done to damp down the craze for encores. Mr Walter Butterworth said encores were really inartistic, and it was aggravating lo have to sit with patience listening to people making a tremendous row and demanding to hear more. i• ■ i Mr Gustav Behrens, the chairman, said they would try to make it a rule next season.

£354,000 OVERPAID.

At the inquiry into the Liverpool Corporation's housing scheme, under which the Economic Building Corporalion are staled to have been overpaid £354,000 in connection with the erection of houses at Gar.slon, the inspector announced that a subpoena sent to Mr Locan, the managing director of the Economic Building Corporation, had been returned with a protest. Mr Locan did not appear and the inquiry was adjourned sine die.

NO SATURDAY FUNERALS,

A proposal'to put an end to Saturday afternoon funerals has been discussed at a conference of cemetery superintendents at Lowstoft, the main argument being the gravediggers dislike to the Saturday funeral's interference with* Ihe half-holiday. Nothing was decided at the conference, but the question will shortly be dealt with by thto General Council of the Cemetery Superintendents' Association.

"AERIAL-GOLF" MATCH,

An aerial golf match marked the opening of the Olympic Fields Country Club at Chicago, which, with four 18-holc courses; claims to bo the largest golf club in the world. Two aeroplanes, each carrying 18 halls, soared over the greens. They dropped ihe balls as near as possible to each hole. One aeroplane was manned by amateurs and one by professionals. The amateurs won by one up. Only one ball fell in the rough.

GERMAN SPIES AGAIN.

Statements made to the Bruges police by a man under arrest are said to have revealed the existence at Zeebrugge of a well-organised system of German espionage. It is also stated that the Minister of National Defence has had to" take special measures with regard to a German aeroplane carrying the Dutch mail, which has been seen persistently hovering over the harbour and coast defences around Zeebrugge.

TAR FOR LOW NECKS.

The women of Athens are indignant at the assaults of a gang of men who style themselves "The Zealots of Christ." These men have declared war against what they call "the corruption of public morals," and in the daytime attack women with low-necked dresses or bare arms, daubing the exposed parts with tar and afterwards ruining the women's dresses. with the same substance. The "Zealots" are undeterred by the severe drubbings which have been administered to many of them by the women's male escorts and members of the public. The. leaner of the gang is a Piraeus grocer, a short, fat, ugly, illiterate person.

KINEMA FIRE SEQUEL,

A professional singer, William Passingham, 21, was committed for trial at the North London Police Court on a charge of seting fire to the Star Kinema, Ilornsey Road, N., on June 14. Bail was refused. Maurice Boldbcrg, 40, who had previously been charged with him, was discharged, as the Director of Public Prosecutions had decided to offer no evidence against him. It was stated in evidence that when the fire brigade reached the kinema it was found that there had been an explosion which had blown the ends of the building into the street, while the. auditorium was burning all over. A police officer 'found in the entrance hall a suit case, a bag, and a parcel which contained empty petrol iins. On the bag was a label bearing Passingham's name.

HIDDEN GERMAN WEALTH

Mr John G. Jones, chief of the sales management teaching staff of the Alexander Hamilton Institute, New York, said at the Aldwyoh Club, London, that for four years Germany has been evading her obligtions, building. her mercantile marine, employing her labour, producing wealth, and hiding the treasure. From 1918 to within a few months ago Germany was producing at a profit and had no unemployment. If they went lo Holland ami Sweden and got Ihe truth, lliey would find thai it was a German fiction that she could not pay. it was common talk in America that there was al least 1,000,000,000 dollars — aboul r-j 00.000.000 of He- profits of German industries in the hanks Of New Yuri, 10-. lay. •England, France and Belgium had on riuhl In soft'"!' and see Germany orosper al Ihe expense of the res! of Ihe world added Mr Junes. He claimed Mini Hie action ol l-'n ami Heli-'ium in Hie Ruhr woidd lied allow of C.eiinany winning Ihe war.