WORLD HAPPENINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18407, 14 August 1931, Page 3

WORLD HAPPENINGS.

ENGLISH BUDDHIST MONK. BEGS HIS DAILY BREAD. Mr George F. Hutchesson, eon of Professor J. F. Hutchesson, now of the Ministry of Justice, Bangkok, and formerly a master al. Cheltenham, has donned the yellow robe and has become a Buddhist monk at a Bangkok temple. Mr George Hutchesson, who Is 24, has had leanings towards Buddhism for several years, lie revisited England last year and while there, decide.l on the step he has now taken. Like every other monk, 'he sets forth daily at dawn from the temple where he resides to beg his food from tha faithful, who account it an act of merit to provide food for the Buddhist CHURCH SERVICE INTERRUPTED. DROWNING VICAR’S VOICE. The services at the parish church of l.umb in Rossendale Lancashire', held the other Sunday by the vicar, the Rev. I. Caleb, whose dismissal of his choir lasi yur has been followed by a series of disturbances, was interrupted by tat' shutTiing of feet and knocking mi Hi'* pews, the noise completely drowning the vicar's voice. Mr Caleb returned tn take the service after negotiations for his exchange of livings with another vicar failed. He had be<m away from the parish fo r two wc c k

HOW DOLE HITS FARMERS. SHOULD BE FORCED TO WORK. An Oxfordshire farmer has drawn attention to a serious position which has arisen in his district owing to the complication of farm labour with the dole. He has a fine plant of mangolds, but he cannot secure enough men to hoo them. “The ordinary labourer,” ho says, “is on the dole, and the farm hands are taking the places of the ordinary labourers away from the farms, so that they can get the dolo when they are out of work. If the dolo were cut one-third the men would be forced to work Instead of remaining idle." CLERGYMAN’S WARNING. A MAN TO BEWARE OF. The Rev. Dr. Lonsdale Ragg, of London, formerly British chaplain !.n Rome, writes to the London Daily Mall—- “ May I warn your readers against an engaging young man, blond and of middle height. In Mount Street, as I was nearing Park Lane, 1 was accosted by a friendly stranger who nforined me apologetically that there was a mess on the back of my coat 1 must have leaned against something or other inadvertently ami offered to help me elean off the polutlon. It was only when 1 turned to thank him, ami found him suddenly vanished, and instinctively f< Il in my pocket an 1 found m? wallet vanished with him, that i realised what was his purpose."

LATE TRADER HORN. LEFT LESS THAN £lOOO. It is said that Trader Horn, the hero of countless adventures in the African wilds, who died in a nursing home in Kent recently, left less than £lOOO. Mrs Marie Louise Scales, his daughter, told a reporter that the stories that he had left a fortune of between £40,000 and £66,000 were sheer imagination. “My father received little more than £2OOO from the film depicting some of his adventures," she said. WOMAN OF EIGHTY ARRESTED. MISTAKE AT HOSPITAL. How an aged woman, after an accident, was declared at the hospital to be hopelessly drunk and was arrested, while all the time she was suffering from a broken leg, was told at the Liverpool inquest on Mrs Christlm Walker Henderson, 80, o( Booth*. She fell in a Liverpool trarncar while returning from a shopping expedition. The doctor at the hospital said she was suffering from bruises, and was completely drunk. She was then taken to the police station ami charged. (>n being allowed bail she was taken home, where another doctor found Ilia! her leg was fraclurel. She was removed to 'hospital, where A verdict of accidental death was returned.