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Hokitika Guardian, 31 August 1925, Page 4

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MAN AA'HO TURNED ON THE BEER LONDON. Juno 2. At Leicester Police Court yesterday. George AA'illiam Sheppard, 3D, (loserdied as a marine store dealer, was charged with doing wilful damage to the extent of £6O by destroying six hogsheads of beer, and also with being in possession of a loaded revolver without having a firearms certificate. Airs Maria Sheppard, licensee of the Abbey Hotel, Abbev-lane, Leicester, said Sheppard, who is her husband but lives apart from Iter, went to the hotel on Friday night in a drunken condition. After abusing her he went down into the cellar and turned on the beer taps. She called in the police and her husband was ejected, but at 0 o’clock on Saturday morning he went into the house again, still in a drunken state, and once more turned the taps on. The whole of the beer in the six hogsheads was wasted, and the cellar floor was several inches deep in beer. It was stated that when arrested Sheppard bad a loaded revolver in lus ocket. .. . He was remaned in custody tor a week. BOA' SCOUTS’ GAVE TEST. LONDON. June 20. Roy Scouts took part in a novel path-finding contest in the caves at Ghislehurst, Kent, on Saturday. The IA2 boys—two each from 70 troops from London, the south and west of England—were taken in pairs into the caves and had to get out as quickly as possible, picking up on the way two tin boxes concealed in blind passages. All who got out under 20 minutes qualilied for the final test to get out of the inner and more remote workings. The shortest time in the preliminary was Rhein. -lOsce. The iinal, in which the first prize was 28 and two torches, was won by the (itli Bromley troop, their time being 2min 21 see. The second prize, £7 and two torches, went to the Uth Camberwell troop. Emin 17secs. NAVAL DEK If Ell’S KATE. LONDON, Juno 20. Rebind the official announcement from the Admiralty that Lieut Richard 11 uihvvaite Lucy, navigating officer of 11. Al. surveying vessel Minders, had fallen overboard and that his body had not been recovered, lies the story <d a tragedy which, is attributed to the intense heat ol lasi week. The Flinders was engaged in survey work off AYatehet, ,m the Somersels|,iiv side of the Bristol Channel, when Liuet Lucy was heard to exclaim, “Oh, I am going mad!” and straight auav, il is alleged, "hipped out a revolver ami shot himself through the head, his ’ body falling over hoard. A thorough ’ search was made, hut as no trace ol • the body could be found the Minders ' put into Cardiff on Saturday morning to report to the Admiralty. | JUST BEGINNING. LONDON, June 20. Sir Oliver Lodge, speaking at \Yesl- ’ bourne Park Chapel, NAY., yesterday, 1 said ho sat in a held the other day and ’ endeavoured to estimate the number ol J blades of grass growing all over the * world and lie calculated that they "etc i less numerous than the number of - atoms in it drop of water. Why should not the earth he l’ara- ' dise? It would he some day. Wo had not been long on this earth as eonscions beings: we had not been intelligent verv long. Now l hat we are eini- > .-.cions beings with a Ireo will evolution s miiv go on a little luster. t ’ ' LINER MINED BATHING. ' LONDON, June 20. > When Ihe While Star litter Alajoslic, ’ which arrived at Southampton yester- - day, was a day out front New York 1 there was a rush of passengers to participate in ihe opening of the mixed bathing season and front early morning till dinner-time the vessel’s swim-ming-bath wits besieged bv men and I women of all ages. Some’ women appealed in strange* ’ bathing dres-es; notl-'iig like them had . ever before been seen at sea. Some were more like ordinary - dresses than bathing attire,” one nt I the swimming instructors told a rot porter. ” In most cases a skirt came 1 aLrnst to the knees and then there were frills. It was a wonder that the j wearers were able to keep alloat. WIRELESS PICTURES. NEW YORK, June 10. j .Motion pictures ol a windmill in noi lion were proji’cteel by wireless yeslorelav on a screen live mile; distant. Air Curtis Wilbur. Secretary lor the Xavv, who was among those who vntiiosseel the .successful experiment, remarked afterwards that it would lie possible soon lor the public to witness | in theatres horse races while they were in progress on the’ race-track, or to . seee and hear a parliamentary debate. The inventor. Air Eraucis Jenkins, of Washington, predicted t hat his appa- . ratus within it year would he sufficiently rel'meil to make wireless motion pictures nraclical for commercial use. PROFESSOR'S. ERROR | LONDON, July Iff. The niei'l pernlexeil man in London . to-day is an Australian university professor who has arrived in this country ■ a year earlier titan intended. ! ilo is line of the Australian dcle- , gales to the Empire Universities Cotti gross, which is to open in London in .; July, l!)2li, and as he will have to re--1 turn heme before the congress is held he will have travelled 21.00 ft miles under the misapprehension that his presence was needed here now. A typist’s error is said to he the > cause of his confusion. Last January | the Universities Bureau of the British . j Empire sent to Australia preliminary notices in connection with Ihe eoii- ; t grogs, hut inadvertently the year was not mentioned. I “ We received a letter from Sydney , University in .March last informing ns ! that all delegates in Sydney ltad been . warned of the error,” an official of the ■ bureau tolel a reporter las. night. “ How it was that one delegate should be under a misapprehension it is not possible to say. There is no reason why lie should not have known that the congress was next year, for tlie typist’s error had been corrected in time. 1 understand that he had come to England intending to spend a holiday as well.” BANDITS IN BATTLE. ATTACK ON HOTEL. CHICAGO, July 30. Ted Court, a full-blooded Indian, was the leader of a gang which gave 7 hieago its greatest thrill for many years. It was 2.30 p.ni.— the busiest time of the afternoon—and the eorrielors of the Drake Hotel were crowded with noted people from all parts of the world when four bandits appeared. Court, who was very drunk, hut extremely capable with a gun, herded the girl clerks, into the office behind the cashier. As the last girl in the line passed inside she slammed the door in the bandits leader’s face. Court tried the knob and then tired several pistol shots through it. Then he dashed to another door, colliding with ATiss A era Brancl;er, ihe manager’s secretary. She hastily telephoned to M’Murdio. the house detective. Court evidently knew the inside ot the hotel and realised that to escape bv the front wav would be difficult. I

so lie boldly rushed for M’Murdie’s office. The detective, who had been amply warned, cautiously opened the door and, with a pistol in each hand, opened fire on Court, who dropped dead. The firing was the signal for the other robbers to dash for the street. -Meeting policemen who had been attractcd by the shooting, one bandit rushed downstairs into the scullery, where lie wrestled with a policeman among the pots and pans until he was subdued. Two other robbers leaped aboard an automobile, and dozens of taxis, loaded with policemen, started a long-range pistol pursuit. A bandit named Nelson was killed and the fourth escaped into the crowd. The cashier at the hotel, Fred. Kodke. has since died from wounds received when the bandit fired through the door. THE BLACK SI I ADO”'. LONDON, July 1(1. Great interest has been created by the article entitled “ The Black Shadow Over South Africa,” written by Mr Ward Price, tlie ‘‘Daily Mail” specnil i orrespondont with the Prince of Wales. “I think Mr Ward Price sums up both sides of the question very fairly,” said the Archbishop of Capetown to a reporter. "I entirely agree witli the opinion of the Bishop of St. Albans (quoted in this article) that. ' the native races of Africa arc handing together in a spirit of race consciousness con sidered impossible a few years ago.’ The natives arc a most law'-nhidiiig people if they are treated with justice, but anything savouring of unfairness arouses them. They also fool slighted if not consulted on matters which concern them. “I am very pleased that the Colour Bar Bill prohibiting coloured people from doing certain kinds of skilled work was ibrown out bv the I'pper House. A Bill of this nature is one o! those things of which the natives feel the injustice.” BIG BHOTHKIt SCHEME. LONDON, July 10. The Big Brother .Movement, as the result of publicity given to it. is becoming as popular in this country as it is in Australia, where it originated. *\lr Billiard Linton, the founder ol the movement, w!»i» is in London arranging for the selection of 250 boys who will emigrate to Australia in Kep- |. infer, has been surprised bv tlie number of letters lie lias received during the last few days from parents in all parts l: f the country. Ail wish that their hoys should enter the ('niiunouweallh under tile auspices nf the movement, which lias lor its object the befriending, placing in employment. and thereafter siilcgiiarding; of li ivs who emigrate. Some parents have brought boys from long distances, and already a number have been chosen. A boy candidate iiiii-I bo prepared in adopt a country lilc :■ id undertake to lollow I lie advice cf his Australian Big Blether he is 21. The fares are: For I toys between 11 and 17 years of age. £5 10s; between 17 and I!) years of age. £ll. Where necessary these lares will be advanced bv (lie Commonwealth Government to 1 he repaid m small instalments by the hoys. The Big Brother Movement is spreading to Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa.