Brief Mention

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 September 1913, Page 4

Brief Mention

A New York patrolman named •]. J. Hartigan has been found guilty of perjury, this Geing the first conviction in connection with a vice investigation which followed the murder of the gambler Rosenthal. He waited on prospective witnesses in the graft enquiry and bribed them to leave the State. It is said that he acted as agent for higher police officers, who feared testimony against them. It is understood (says the Pall Mall Gazette) that Queen "Alexandra, who has kept a-diary almost since the days of her childhood/ j might possibly be induced at some future date to allow some leaves from it ao appear in print. The interest of such a publication would bo tremendous, as Her Majesty has assisted at almost every historical scene and marking episode of the last half century, and possesses a style at once elegant and facile. The progress of aviation was illustrated recently in some interesting figures given by Mr A. V. Roe, aviator, of Manchester, to the Manchester Association of Engineers. Flying, he said, is becoming less risky every year. At first fatalities equalled one in 500 miles. The mileage quickly rose to 5000, then to 50,000, and to-dav there is one person killed ! for about 100,000 miles flown. Mr Itoe pointed out that it was only seven years since flying was constituted impossible. Two police dogs which have been .instrumental in securing convictions for crime were among the 2300 animals on exhibit at the great Dog Show at Olynipia, London, recently. There were also interesting specimens of foreign dogs, such as the Hon. Florence Amherst's Saluki or Gazelle hounds, beautiful Araßian clogs, Lady Castelreagh's Jiasque sheep dogs, and yellow Labradors, golden retrievers, and a few yellow Russian retrievers. Many notable people were among the exhibitors, and Lord Lonsdale was one of the judges.

In his annual report the medical officer of Jiealth for Stratford (England) states that the average height of girls at the age of lo was 4ft 91in. and boys 4ft the corresponding figures for the previous years being 4ft 9in and 4ft Coinnienting on this fact at a recent meeting of the Stratford Education Board, the chairman (Mr E. W. Bates) said it was apparent that girls were getting bigger. Why that should be so he did not know. "Whether it was a forecast of what was going to happen, whether the woman was to be the superior animal in the future, he did not know. A speaker at the banquet tendered to Premier lloliuan, at Gundagai, X.S.W., the other day, made an amusing error which caused a roar of laughter. The speaker was proposing the toast of Parliament, and after having extolled the Ministers in general, and the Premier in particular, he went on to say that the Premier had bared his arm and had been vaccinated with the "nymph" of public opinion. This makes one of the townsmen reminiscent:--"That's nothing," he remarked to a visitor. "We had an inquest here three or four years ago, and a great deal depended upon the result of the examination of a pair of hoots which had been son Ho the Government Analyst. The inquest was consequently adjourned, and a young man who had listened intentlv to the evidence in the local aquivalont to gallery, went out lo mingle with his companions, lolling them (hat (he boots had been sent to the Government anarchist for paralysis."