WORLD HAPPENINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19664, 26 August 1935, Page 10

WORLD HAPPENINGS.

WOMAN OF EIGHTY - HOAXED. SEVERAL CALLS FOR HELP. A series of hoaxes on a ■woman more than 80 years of age culminated In the simultaneous visits of an L.C.C. ambulance, two police officers, and three nurses from a maternity hospital. All were summoned by separate telephone calls and when the ambulance men and the others were admitted to the home of Mrs Simpson in St. Charles-squarc, London, it was found that neither she nor tier middleaged daughter had asked for help.

MAGISTRATE'S SOUVENIR. CRICKET HALL HIT INTO COURT. Westminster Police Court, which | overlooks Yincent-square, S.W., where 1 the playing fields of Westminster Prhool are situated, had a window broken by a cricket bail. 1 The magistrate. Mr. Ceoffrey K. . Rose, examined Hie distance from ! which Hie hall had been struck. Rcnli ising that, it was a Jcssopian feat, lie | asked if he might keep the ball, which had fallen into the court, as a souvenir. I When the request, was granted he dcJ cided not to make a “claim” for Hie ' broken glass, j

I GREENWICH TIME ERROR. | I ! The lime hall at Greenwich Observa- • ion from which many visitors lake ! the.' time did not fall until nine and a half minutes past one instead of at 1

p.m., said a London paper of recent date.

An official at the observatory told a reporter that a part of the mechanism on the ball and mast must have jammed, and thus prevented the spring released by the clock from acting. It is very seldom that the ball fails to work, butonce in 1855 it was blown down by a gale into the courtyard of the observatory. ..