NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 231, 29 September 1928, Page 3 (Supplement)

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

WOMAN SWIMMER OF 90. Mme. Cuvelier, of Roubaix, who _is 90, recently gave a swimming exhibition at Roubaix. She has been a swimmer since she was four. When she was only 11, Mme. Cuvelier saved a drowning man from the River Scheldt, and since then she has effected half a dozen rescues. "I am still able to swim for more than an hour," she said. "I can swim as far as 1 can walk."

HEDGEHOG HOLD-UP. No fewer than five hedgehogs put in an appearance at a cricket match in Gloucestershire between Bishopston and the Bath Club's second eleven. They strayed all over the pitch, and several times held up the play. The Bath skipper carried two of them off, and onlookers later took charge of the family, and all five were replaced in a hedge when the match was over. A FOLD-UP RECORD. The Woldecho gramophone record, which, it is claimed, is non-inflammable, can be folded up and twisted without harm, and cannot be scratched, will shortly be on the market, 6tates a London exchange. Full-size double-sided records | will be sold at 8d each. A 2 1 ,iin record* could be inserted in a packet of cigarettes like a cigarette card, and 25 double-sided records can be packed into the space of one inch. MURDERER'S CHILD.

Isleworth Guardians, Middlesex, are in ' difficulty over the custody of a murderer's child. The man, Harry Frampton, aged 24, a naval steward, was reprieved after being sentenced to death for the murder of his 19-years-old wife at Chatham. The child, a boy named I Eugene, aged 12 months, has been adopted ' by the guardians, and now the parents of the father and the mother of the dead woman are both anxious to have the 1 care of him. The clerk said: "The next 1 meeting is not until September. The guardians will then have to exercise the wisdom of Solomon and decide who is to have the custody of the child, unless, of course, either of the parties applies to the High Court." £700 THEFT IN POST. The loss of a package of bank and treasury notes to the value of £700 in the post between Ross-on-Wye and Newport, Monmouthshire, has been revealed. The package was dispatched by the Midland Bank, Ross, to the branch office at Newport. It was registered at the local post office, but when the parcel arrived at its destination the notes had disappeared. Detectives are puzzled by the fact that the seals of the package were intact. The method of abstracting the t notes is a mystery. A similar robbery occurred in the same district several I months ago when treasury notes dispatched from Lydbrook Post Office were stolen from a mail bag.

THE TILE TROT DANCE. A new dance called the "Tile Trot,", inspired by a cat walking on the tiles, was demonstrated in London to 500 members of the Imperial Society of Dance Teachers, by Major Cecil H. Taylor, president, who introduced the Yale Blues. It is danced to the rhythm of the tango, and in the opinion of some of the teachers is likely to become the dance of the season. Another body of experts maintain, that it is ugly and ridiculous. "It can only be compared to a cat walking on hot bricks," Mr. Santos Casini. the famous ballroom dancer told a "Daily Chronicle" representative. "The dancing public are tired of paying high fees to learn silly crazes like this. They are satisfied with the waltz, in which they have a. really beautiful dance."

WOUNDED DOG VISITS DOCTOR. In the casualty ward of the Western Suburbs District Hospital. Sydney, some weeks ago, the doctor on night duty found a little fox terrier sitting on the floor and whining as he held up a broken, bleeding paw for the doctor's examination. Apparently he had been run over by a car passing along the Liverpool Road, and he had struggled into the hospital, which faces that road. He sat patiently while the doctor dressed and applied splints and bandages to his paw, and then the kind-hearted doctor gave him into the care of a nurse, and admitted him to -the hospital. "Peter,"' he has been dubbed by the staff, and patients all ask after their doggie fellow. The nurses describe Peter as a "dear," and say he's coni valescent now, for he no longer needs , his splints and bandages, and trote busily . about —the hospital's permanent patient. RED-HAIRED PEOPLE.

"Schoolboy terms, such as 'Carrots,' 'Ginger.' and 'Coppernob,' directed jestingly at those with red. hair, may embitter young jjeople against their fellows," said Dr. H. Crichton Miller, addressing the Summer School of the British Social Hygiene Council at Cambridge. "We may all think red hair a joke, but it is not a joke to its owners. They may grow to regard it as a joke when they reach mature years, but the experience in earlier years of their appearance in a schoolroom or the street being the signal for a joke has twisted their whole attitude to the human herd." There were all sorts of misapprehensions about the red-haired person, said Dr. Miller. It was thought rebels, adventurers. and wild people like that had red hair as a physical symptom. The real fact of the matter was that red hair led to an attitude of permanent self-defence. WEDDING SURPRISE.

Joseph Charles Reynolds, a private in the Northamptonshire Regiment, was arrested a few yards from the door of St. Sepulchre's * Church. Northampton, where arrangements had been made for his marriage with Miss Elizabeth Harris, of Hampston Street. Northampton. The Vicar of St. Sepulchre's (the Rev. Basil King) _ was waiting in the church, but, owing to information he received, would not have performed the ceremony had Reynolds arrived. Miss Harris, who was accompanied by her stepfather and mother, was spoken to by a detective just before she reached the church. Becoming distressed, she quickly returned home, where she declined to be seen or to make any statement. The marriage banns had been published on three successive Sundays, and no objection made. Reynolds, following his arrest, was charged at a special court with being an absentee and was handed over to an escort.

RING IN BEACH SHINGLE. While bathing at Torquay a woman visitor lost from her finger a diamond ring valued at £150. When the tide receded, search was made by attendants and others, but without success. Eventually shingle was gathered in buckets and prawn nets and after a large quantity had been searched the ring wens found by a beach attendant, who was suitably rewarded.

DAUGHTER'S BROKEN HEART. Grief stricken by the death of her father. Miss Winifred Elane Davis, a cousin of Mr. Thomas Davis, the Jersey millionaire, who owned the famous racing yacht Westward, died in Jersey recently. Miss Davis' father died suddenly three months ago. while walking with Mr. Thomas Davis, his uncle, in St. Helier. Since then, Miss Davis had been grief stricken, and had spoken of nothing but her father's death. She was 54 years of age, and, according to her relatives and friends, showed no sign of any illness. CONTEST FOR A CORPSE. A Polish merchant, Pinkue Gewel, was trying to 6lip across the frontier from Russia into Poland when he was shot bySoviet Customs men. He fell dead acrosa the frontier line, with the upper half of his body in Polish territory and the lower half in Russia. GeweFs widow claimed the body, declaring that her husband had hidden £300 in banknotes in his boot«. The Soviet Commission refused to hand over the body and contise-at-ed the money on the ground that even if the dead man's head was in Poland his feet were in Russia.

JUDGE AND A WOMAN'S WORTH. "As damages have been agreed to I will grant them, but I doubt if the woman is worth it." So said Mr. Justice Hill, in the Divorce Court, London, granting a decree nisi with £750 damages to Mr. Reginald Jack Barber, a mercantile marine officer, of Mostyn Avenue, West Kirby, Cheshire, because of the misconduct of his wife, Alice Gertrude Barber, with Mr. Arthur Sainsburv. Respondent was described as a dancing instructress at a London club, aud misconduct was alleged at her flat in Museum Street, W.C. The petition was undefended.

CLINGING TO ROCK. A terrifying experience befell four tourists of Bolzano, in the Italian Tyrol, while climbing the Marmolada, the loftiest peak of <the Dolomites. Surprised 'by a sudden storm, the party lost the track and were obliged to remain hours cling* ing to a rock. One man collapsed from exposure and is not expected to recover. Another accident occurred on the Forcelia del Pico when one of a party of three Germans fell down a crevasse. Although severely injured themselves, the other two hauled their comrade up again. All three were in a serious condition when rescued by Italian frontier guards. VIOLIN ON TOUR. Efrem Zimbalist's f avoir' > violin, * Guadagnini, stolen in Lot. Angeles in. April, 1927, has —after following him about the world for 55,000 miles—finally reached him at his Connecticut 6uimner; hoipe. He values it at £3000. Several months after it disappeared the thief was arrested while trying to pawn it in Chicago. At that time Ziinbalist and his wife. Alma Gluek, the singer, were in Australia. The violin » was forwarded to him there, but he had already left. Sent after him, it voyaged to Java, China, Manila, India and back again to Australia, thence to California, and now to Connecticut.

TOO FEW GROUSE FOR KING. Lack of grouse made it difficult this year for the Duke of Devonshire to invite the King to make his usual summer visit to Bolton Abbey, the duke's Yorkshire seat. It will be the first time for many years that for this reason the King will not go to the Abbey, although in 1925 he had to give up his visit owing to the serious illness of the duke. The shortage of birds is stated to be due* to the ravages of a mysterious malady which has caused havoc among the grouse on the duke's moors near the Abbey. Many dead birda have been found and some havo been sent for expert examination. Local farmers consider that too many birds were left on the moors last year and that inbreeding has weakened the strain. GALLOWS CONFESSION.

Shortly after the execution of William Smylie at Belfast gaol an official statement was issued that he had confessed to the murder of two sisters, the Misses M;irgaret and Sarah Maeauley. at a farmhouse near Annoy, County Antrim. He dS sentenced to death for the crime on -luiy 10 at County Antrim Assizes. Belfast. Smylie shot the women and plundered, their home. Missing notes were found his boots. The official disclosure of murderers' confessions is not made in Great Britain. In ]\r2o tiie Governor «•:" W.cids- ; worth prison refused t*> u-i! the coroiie:, at the inquest after the execution. whether Norman Thorne had confessed to the murder of hi? fiancee. Elsie Cameron. TRAMCAR CHIVALRY.

There was recently an untteual case is Glasgow Centra] Police Court, when a tram conductor and a passenger were charged with having caused a breach of the peace by fighting in the street. The conductor said the disagreement arose through the passenger opening a door upstairs after it had been closed to protect a woman with a baby. The passenger followed him downstairs and struck him. on the chin. They then got into grips and were found thus when the police arrived. The passenger was fined £3 and the charge against the conductor was dismissed. The stipendiary Eaid he was not surprised at the conductor's attitude. Had he been treated as the conductor had been he would have been very much inclined to do what had- been done. BABIES' BODIES IN PARCEL.

A tramway conductor residing at 73, ■Tolin Knox Street, Glasgow, recently made a startling disclosure in the close at that address. When leaving Hie close he noticed a brown paper parcel lying at the • foot of the stairs. At that time he paid no particular attention to it, but when he returned an hour later he was surprised, to find that the parcel was still there. Along with, a lamplighter, he opened it, and was horrified to discover that it contained the bodies of two newly-born child- ■ ren. The bodies were removed to the mortuary at the Central Police Station, where an examination showed th.it the bodies were those of two iie'A ly-bora. | female children. One of them was wrapped in a white towel and j>art of a. newjjpaper and the other in a piece o£ cloth and another iu-w«.-papor. A VANDERBILT ROBBERY. Burglars missed a big haul in the Parii residence of Mrs. William K. Vaiiderbilt, widow of the American millionaire. I his palatial house in tlie Bnis <Ie Boulogna quarter is in charge of a housekeeper and six servants., while Mrs. Vanderbilt U awav on her yacht Vallient. The housekeeper, Mile. Freiiet. found that several rooms had been visited by thieves. From the drawing room, whico was in considerable confusion, 13 valuably iniuiatui es were missing; but they «er« found in the kitchen fireplace, where the burglars had thrown them after having ripped oIT their gold mountings. In Mr-s Vanderbilt's bedroom they had attached « jewellerv casket, but after breaking one of its two "locks tbev appeared to have tired of the task. Had they persisted they wouM have found jewellery to the value o| between one and two million franc* There are indications that t tne burglacf tied serviettes round their boots in • to move about quietly.