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Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1925, Page 4

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SHINGLING AIIBEST l.t >X I)< >N, Sept. 2S. ‘We )one ten many unemployed in

llii.s (lOitiii r\ \i' ill ion l foreigners coming over to coni polo with ns,” said Mr Leyroster, (lio 1 tow-street magistrate, on Saturday in li ll i 11 ir Kurt Hilpert. -I. a Swiss hairdresser, of Kaleigh-road, Hornsey, N.. £2O for making a false statement to an aliens’ officer. A constable said that Ililpert. an cv licit women's hair waver, had boon employed at a shop in Oxford-street at £1 a week. It was suspected by tlie other n-sisianls there that lie was a German and I hoy refus'd to work' with him any longer. Ho thereupon produced his registration card to prove that lie was a Swiss, and it was then discovered that lie was registered as a student, and that he had no permission from the Home Office to work. He was arrested while cutting a woman’s hair.

Ililpert said his father, who was a hair-dresser, gave him £3OO to come to this country to learn the language. Re went to the hairdresser's for prne-

tiro. Mr T.eyeester also made an order recommending import's deportation, GERMS TN PASTRY. LONDON. Sept. 28. A pastry cook is believed to have, been the innocent cause of an outbreak of paratyphoid fever, a form of typhoid in Croydon. The medical officer. Dr 11. P. Newsholme, fold a reporter that the outbreak lmd been traced Lo a shop where a man suffering from paratyphoid, was working. A girl at the shop was Hie first victim, and the people affected consumed meat pies or other food which, though bought at different shops, were till made at the place where the pastry cook worked. The pastry cook suffered from an attack of the disease in August, but continued working. Eighteen people have been treated at hospital and eight at home. •. b further eases have been reported. Paratyphoid fever closely resembles typhoid fever, hut it is milder and much less fatal. It was very rare in England until the soldiers returned from the war. Many eases are pro. bahly mistaken for influenza, the symptoms ( headache, joint pains, chilliness. and rise of temporalurc) being similar.

A "carrier'* may harbour the germs without being ill. or may continue to retain and distribute them for a long time after recovery from an attack, but it is practically impossible to discover sueli carriers until attention to them is called by an outbreak. ENECHTON DRAMA. LONDON. September 25. At Duke-street Prison, Glasgow, yesterday, John Keen, of Port Dundas, was executed for the murder of an hide n pedlar. Picrpoint was the executioner. Bailie. Airs Bell, who, with her magisterial colleagues Bailie Dr Janies Dunlop, witnessed the proceedings, is the first woman in Great Britain to see an execution. Mrs Bell afterwards told a reporter that it was a very quiet and solemn act. She was left with two dominating emotions—sorrow that so young a mail (lie was only 22) should meet such an end. and admiration ol the tactful and humane manner in which the execution was carried out. Mrs Pell and Dr Dunlop were first taken to the condemned cell, and after they had formally asked Keen if he was John Keen he suddenly turned impulsively to them and asked: “AYR! you shake hands with me?” Both immediately complied. His grip, said Airs Bell, was quite strong. The execution was over in -15 seconds. Asked if the experience had al- 1 tered her views on capital punishment. Afrs Bell said: “ I still believe that the j death penalty is necessary. It is a ’ terrihle act, but so is murder,” !

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LONDON, Oct. 5. Tests are being made by the Service Technique lie I’Aeronautiquc of a new apparatus for propelling aircraft, devised by 11. H. F. Helot, a French engineer. which dispenses with an enginedriven propeller and uses instead the pressure produced by the explosion of a gas and air mixture. The details of the machine under test have not yet been revealed, but in M. .Helot's previous apparatus, says ••The Enginerr,” paraflin was burned in a special combustion chamber, and the gases after combustion, issuing from a tuyere, were passed through a number of" funnel-shaped conduits, each one bigger than the last and augmenting the volume oi induced air until the volume and velocity were great enougn to create a high propulsive effort. The new device is really a simple type of two-cycle motor cylinder, the exhaust gases from the explosions being passed through the propelling device at the back of the aircraft and driving it forward by sheer air pressure. Tests so far carried out are stated to have shown that, the weight of tfie apparatus is less than 1 kiln. (ikrlUO per horse-power RAILWAY ,JOLTS. LONDON. Oct. o. An ingenious clockwork machine, called the llallade track register, which enables the oscillations and jolts which accompany high speeds on the railway to he recorded, was demonstrated by London and Xorth-Knstern Railway officials to a reporter yesterday. The machine acts as a permanent-way mspec tor. . . ; Oscillations are in three direct ions across, vertical, or parallel to the track. ,\ separate needle records the disturbances in cacli of these directions, and , another marks tile quarter-mile posts iaiul stations passed, so that any portion of the track needing attention can be traced at the end of the journey. All the needles slide over a carbon band, under which a role ol paper revolves over a drum, and make a chart similar to that of the barometer. This chart, interpreted by experts. a guide to the stale ol toe traci,. " The clockwork railway inspector can cheek the state of the track between London and Leeds and back in a day. It docs not- displace the daily inspection of the track by permanent-way inspectors, but it supplements this and . ■ often reveals defects which arc not visible to the eye. , | On the journeys taken yesterday tee , register showed that there was practi- . callv the same oscillation in first and third-class carriages. ! | -MY AY IFF, CALLS AIK. - ’ i 1 LONDON. October j A note left by Richard Ebeuczer

Clark, SO, of Cobhum-btiildings, Rush-worth-street, Blnckfrinrs, S.E., who was found lying dead on his wife’s grave at Highgate Cemetery, contained the brief message, “ My wile keeps calling to me.” >

At the inquest at St. Patieras yesterday it was stated that the man lived on a pension and parish relief. Mis wife died six years ago. Clark visited the cemetery almost every day and had been heard to say: “ I cannot hold out much longer; 1 must go to my wife.” Last Saturday a gravedigger found him lying across the grave. On the ground were two bottles, one containing a white fluid. A doctor said that death was due to carbolic acid poisoning. Verdict : Suicide while of l nsound .Hind.