MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1927, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

VOGUE OF .MANY WIVES. NEW YORK, Aug. A modern Babvion is pictured by Rev. Caleb Stetson, rector ol the fashionable Trinity parish. In the Parish Book, Rev. Stetson a.-soi is that polygamy is superseding monogamy in America. Married life, he says, is at the breaking down point, as one out of every six marriages ends in divorce. .Manages, in his view, are based nowadays on love, which is simply sex appeal, or a passing whim; anti fashionable church marriages are often " vulgar wells of paganism.” *• It is conceivable.” he adds, ‘‘that at some time in the future the Government might make polygamy legal.”

ROUND THE WORLD AT 120 M.P.11. NEW YORK. Aug. t>. A solo llight westward around the wur.'.i at a speed of 180 miles an hour It planned to take place during August, the pilot being Baron Raven Barnekow, scion of a German family, who are owners of great dairy ini crests.

The baron will use a Curtiss-Hawk 'plane of 100 horse-power, and will leave from Roosevelt Field. New York.

The first three stops are to he at San Francisco, Hawaii, and Japan. Baron Baruoknow refuses to reveal the remainder of the route, and whether it will include Australia. He is officially credited with downing fifteen Allied ’pi'anes during the wai when he fought with the late Baron Ritrhni'en’s “Red Circus” unit.

-MARRIED IN CONDEMNED CELT. TRENTON. N.J.. Aug. 5.

Standing within 20 feet of the electric chair in which he will he executed for murder on Friday next, Salvatore .Mena was married yesterday to Jenny Tripode. The ceremony took plate in order to legitimise the blonde, vuri'y-headed throe-.venr-old hoy. who romped in the gaol corridor while the priest intoned the marriage service.

The couple were married through the steel' bars of the condemned cell, the hoy's father standing inside and the young mother and the priest standing outside.

As the ceremony concluded both wept bitterly, the mother almost collapsing as she lifted the hoy to kiss his father through the bars.

BRITISH PREFERRED. LONDON, August (>.

A child horn in Brazilian territory, of a Brazilian mother and a Spanish father, was declared to he a British subject recently. The child was horn aboard a British ship, the Royal Mail Strampaekel Co’s liner. Arianza, in Brazilian waters, io Sonora Jose Cruz. Senorn Cruz was told that she had thi' choice of Brazilian or British nationality for the chii'd. As the bit by could not have the father's nationality, she chose British. Christened Arianza. the baby will now lie registered at Stepney, London, and technically becomes a Cockney, although horn far from the sound of Bow Bells. musrolint. LONDON. Aug. r.. Mussolini celebrated his forty-fourth birthday working in his oifico while most people were at the seaside escaping the terrible heat, of t.lie city, tidegraphs Hie Rome correspondent of the " Daily Mail.” •• II Dine” sinli'ed happily when people congratulated him on the approaching birth of his fourth child. ' No! tile fourth, but M'C !irs> of :• 11 . • erics.” lie -aid. > VOUNt • CENTENARIAN. PARIS, .'tug. i. For IN' \. :• Henri Tonreiinai lias (Irani: superannuation from ihe Stale Railways. lie looked so youthful that lie became a celebrity, and visitors came Tar to seel; an introduction. The railway company, however, suddenly realised it was paying a centenarian and made inquiries. Henri then confessed that ho had boon impersonating Ids Father, who died in 1007. MOTHER’S INNOCENT ATT IN BACKYARD. CONDON. Aug. n.

A woman at Plnistow threw a canvas bag at her 11-year-old sun. who was reading in the backyard. She did not know that the bag contained a table knife, which severed an artery in the neck of the hoy. who subsequentlydied.

Mrs Annie Lloyd, the mother, twice railed the hoy. Thomas, who was reading in the yard, to come inside. He replied. “ Let me finish the story.”

His mother then threw the canvas bag at hint. Thomas cried: “Mummy, you’ve made my neck hi'eed.” The knife bad severed an artery, and lit- died shortly afterwards, saying: “ You never meant it, mum.”

At the inquest a doctor gave the opinion that the knife must have come out of a hole in the bag with great force.

The police and the neighbours gave evidence that Mrs Lloyd was a kind and affectionate mother. The jury brought in a verdict of misadventure.

REST FOR DEGRESS. LOXDOX. Aug. 0

The “ Evening News ” says that the Duchess of York will receive the freedom of the city of Glasgow when the Duke will open the Health Exhibition there on September 21. “ The Duchess will get a real rest.” says a leading burgher of Forfar. “ when she comes to Glands Castle next "Wednesday. There won’t be any peeping from behind trees and gates. They are making the Duchess do far too much down in London.” RRTTATX'S BEER DRIXKIXG. I.OXDOX. Aug. -7. Britain consumes almost as much beer as milk. Board of Trade returns give the annual figure for milk as SoO.OOO.flnq gallons, and for beer as 7-19.000.00 n gallons. The beer consumption is 19 gallons n head. ■ LEST WE FORGET.” LOXDOX. -tug. 7. A vetc:mi among the thousands who visited the South Kensington War Museum on the eve of the nnnivorsaty of the outbreak of the war noticed the original treneli signboards from the Flanders front, such ns “Suictcte Corner ” and “ Death alley. He recalled their dreadful associations. and added. ” These ought not to be here. They, should bo hung on the walls of the Disarmament Conference Chamber at Geneva,”

KILLED THREE ELEPHANTS. LONDON, Aug. o

A message from Kenya (East Africa) stated that the game warden at Uganda officially records that three elephants succumbed to one bullet.

The ranger wounded an elephant on a hillside, down which it slid following the course made by the body of an elephant which was killed months before.

It collided with another live tieand the* pair humped into a third. The trio crashed into a valley, where the four elephants were found together.

REY DR PINFOLD RETURNS AUCKLAND. Aug. 11

A cable message received in England informing hint of the death of his wife in Wellington was responsible for the premature return to the Dominion of the Rev. Dr J. T. Pinfold, sei ret ary of the Wellington Ministers’ Association, who was a passenger on tin' Ruahiue. which arrived trnm Sinmhauipton to-day. l)i Pinfold, who is a noted Methodist preacher, set out on an eight months' tour abroad, but this was curtailed it> three months. i>r Pin-t-Id was able to attend rile Primitive Methodist Conference in I.Chester and also the big Methodist-Wesleyan Conference in Dublin. He also had the great honour of preaching at the City Road Wesleyan Chapel. London, considered the Mecca of Methodism. •‘The principal object of my tour was to attend the conference at Lausanne, Switzerland, on faith and order.” stated Dr Pinfold. “About 500 of the heads of churches from all parts of the world were to he present, but the death of my wife prevented this.” Speaking of the question of the unity nf the churches. Dr Pinfold said his private opinion was that each church had a special mission in the world, and he considered co-operation was the best means of raising the outlook of mankind and bringing happiness into thi' world. Dr Pinfold was agreeably surprised with the. state of Ireland. He said there was an air <d industry, peace, and contentment about the country. He was told by Methodist ministers that they now preached in places where before they had never dared to goWIRELESS ENTHUSIAST’S ERROR YOUNG MAN BADLY INJURED. AUCKLAND, Aug. 10. An electric, detonator has cost a young man ol 18, Sam Beresiord, his iel't. eye and probably the use ot ins left hand. The tragic accident is another prool of the danger of leaving detonators lying about where they vail be found by people who are unaccustomed to using them. On Thursday evening Bcresford fixed the detonator, which he thought was quite harmless, to a wireless set. It exploded in his hands with the force o; a bursting tyre. r l he iorce ot the explosion tori- the palm and part of :ho wrist away iroin the left hand almost io the hone, and the flying pieces of the detonator embedded themselves in both eyes and his face, which was terribly lacerated. His right hand Was also badly cut.

Bcresford was employed in Rushton’s Garage, Albert street. He had been on duty in premises in Queen street after the sale of some motorcars last week. While waiting for the carpenters to leave the building, Bcresford picked up an electric detonator’ on the floor. It was eased in wood and was only it few inches long with two wires protruding from one

end That, evening Bcresford took the ■ tel onator home w ith him to (i Esplanade Road, Mount Eden, where he is ‘ laying with Mr R. H. Spinlov. fnfiirtunaicly, Bercslor.l did not -ask Mr Spinley’x opinion ol the detonatie thought that it was a inooielectrical device and that hi’

..(Mild try it on liis crystal sot. Air Kpiuics immediately applied iieiinkpivt to BcreMoro v. I.'ii arm ami !iuvrii’il I)ilit away t-ii the Auckland I Ins] lit aI, while he la Hill a 1>«tinnl. Tim doctors have hopes of savin.”: Ids lilt hand. lon they enrol'.', save the eye. FOR BRAY FRY. CM P, ISTOH I'RC'I!. An,-. i<>. \ meeting of the Cunt Direelers of (he Royal Humane Soviet v decided to award Irnmed cerlificaies lor hravoix to the follow ini;:—Alan Alexander Baynes (police constable of Lytteltent; doliu Lee Wilson (Lnion Steam Ship Company’s employee, of Lyttelton); Keith Johnstone (launch man of Burt Ahnriri) and Alyrlle Hyacinth Wood (assistant teacher of Te Kiri. Taranaki).