ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17586, 15 December 1928, Page 13 (Supplement)

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

FROM THE WORLD'S PRESS. Chatham's first Navy Week, held 2a August, realised £2,433. Archdeacon Thomas Lloyd, of St. Asaph. Flintshire, has been appointed Suffragan Bishop of St. Asaph. Major-General J. W. Sandilands has been appointed G.O.C. South China, in succession to Major-General C G. Luard. At Barnsley, William Savage and Harry George, pit workers, were fined £2 for cruelty to a tortoise by breaking its shell. It has been decided to abandon kidnapping of speakers during the Glasgow University rectorial elections, saya a London: paper. A memorial bronze bust of the late Earl of Oxford and Asquith, was unveiled at the town hall, Morley, 'Yorkshire last month.

Two hundred boxes of refined silver of the declared value of £90,000 were shipped from the London Docks, one day last month to Russia. ..'-••

Three thousand school children drawn from 150 parishes attended, an organ, recital in Worcester Cathedral, England, by Sir Ivor Atkins. ..'., ' .

.. A record for Luton is establishedby: the choice of Alderman A. Wilkinson as mayor for the.fifth successive time and his sixth term in office.. -;.•_: !'

One of 12 Grimbsy trawlers fishing off the Murmansk (Russia) coast under the .protection of a British cruiser landed at Grimsby a £1,250 catch..

Bailie Brown at Edinburgh paid a fine he imposed on a motor-lorry driver for failing to stop when a tramway-car was stationary at a stopping place.

Mrs B. Raynor, of Louth,, who .was christened on the day of her birth because, it was feared she would not five, was 100 years old last month.

The Clyde Shipbuilding and - Engineering Co., Ltd., Port Glasgow, is being wound up—the second Clyde shipyard to close within recent months.

Canada exported during last. September 6,279 passenger motor-cars valued at £544,421, compared with 2,856 (£383,887) in September las; year.

Mr W. J. Wright, aged 55, who recently purchased Bickley Farm, near Taunton, Somerset, for £IO,OOO- was found shot dead with a gun by his side. i

Northam Iron Works, Southampton, England, which was established in 1834 and built vessels for many steam packet liner companies, is closing down.

The L.G.C. affixed a tablet to 58-60, Victoria-street, Westminster, .London, to commemorate the residence there of Sir Arthur Sullivan, the music composer.

Seven more smallpox cases at Morley, five miles from Leeds, were taken to hospital during a recent week-end, making 48 cases now in hospital there.

Greece has acceded to the British Government's request for permission to establish air ports in Greek territory in connection with the air service to India.

Mr Ben Greet has completed a series of Shakespearean performances for the L.C.C., at which, in Hammersmith, London, alone, nearly 10,000 scholars attended. ■■■■■■*. v;' ■

Clyde shipyard joiners have decided to stop all overtime as a protest against the employers' refusal to include them in a 3s per week advance granted to other trades.

The British Royal Commission on Transport, whose work some of the members believe may last three years, met privately in London last month fo: the first time.

Thousands of pigeons were freed as part of the welcome accorded to General Primo de Rivera, the Spanish Premier,, on his arrival at Las Palmas, Canary Islands.

The average number of persons who received "outdoor" Poor Law relief in Britain in August was 854,200, as compared with 387,400 in August, 1914—an increase of 466,800.

Owing to an invitation having been mislaid, a large audience waited in vain at Southwark, England, yesterday for the arrival of Dame Margaret Lloyd George to inaugurate a health week.

Two Germans, August Prinz and Josef Schwarzmuller, have been fined respectively Is and £6 by the British Summary Court at Wiesbaden for singing "Deutschland über Alles" in a cafe.

The total attendance at British Territorial Army training camps this year was 5,882 officers and 117,449 other ranks, or 87.6 per cent, of the strength of units, compared with 8G.6 last year.

The Aldershot court-martial sen- , tence of 112 days' hard labour on 1 Orderly Room Sergeant Healey, Irish )

Guards, for converting public money to bis own use, was remitted by 35 days.

An unexploded bomb, weighing 601 b., 2ft. long by 4in. wide, believed to have been dropped by an enemy aeroplane during the war, has been found at Earl Sterndale, near Buxton, -Derbyshire. ;

Mr William Edward Bateman, aged 60, of Barfield-road, Leytonstone, died from injuries received when knocked down by a motor-car while wheeling a baby carriage containing a gramophone.

The British Industrial Court has decided that railway electricians' wages shall be subject to the 2i per cent, deduction to which all other railway employees, including the management, submitted.

Mr P. T. Eckerslcy, who has been invited to be captain of Lancashire County Cricket Club, has announced his resignation as prospective Conservative candidate for the Newton .'division of Lancashire.

At a London inquest on George Ernest Jenks, aged 58, a director of Messrs R. Evans and Co., textile dealers, who, with five wounds" on-'his throat, fell from a fourth-floor window, the coroner, Dr. Waldo,, recorded a verdict of suicide, saying that there was no evidence to show the state of the nians'.mind. 9 ■■