MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1928, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

(Australian A N.Z. Cable Association.) TICKLED ALIYE. LONDON, Jan. 2. “l’iekld alive” says Doctor AY ring in the British -Medical Journal, “is the only description of a woman in Shropshire who consumed daily, for thirty years, a quart bottle of vinegar. She once weighed 112 pounds, which she reduced to 38 pounds. AA’hon a doctor -was summoned she had been foodless for five weeks. Hands, forearms, feet and legs, were almost black " ith no pulsations in r thc arteries below the elbows and knees, though she was mentally alert and there wax no signs of malignant disease,’ hut the digestive organs had readied a state of completely functionless. In fact she was nearly as possible piikled alive. She died at the hospital 48 hours later.”

SKATING CARNIVAL. b(XX) COMPETITORS. LONDON. Jan. 1. 'file greatest skating carnival held lor many years took place at Lingaylen, Cambridge, where there were five thousand people on the ice when the skaters were competing for the amateur championship and King’s Cup, the weather for the first time since 1912 permitting the competition to be held. Dix. the holder, aged fifty, who first won the championship thirty-three years ago. lost to Horn, of Upwell. aged twenty-two. Twenty degrees of frost during the night made the ice safe for the multitude. There was a great demand on an open-air buffet for hot drinks, the skater’s own supplies having become frozen in their bottles. Bookmakers shouted the odds as twenty-seven competitors skated in the beats. Girls in plus fours, with brightly coloured jumpers, introduced the carnival spirit, which was increased by the carrying of balloons. Hundreds of skaters paced the competitors.

The Prince of Wales, who is weekending at Melton Mowbray, bought a pair of skates yesterday at noon, and joined the throng of skaters on the lake in Stapleford Park, proving himself quite an expert on the ice.

ANGLICAN COTROVERSY. LONDON. December 31. The Archbishop of Canterbury, in a New Year message, recalls that each of the last score of years begaif with a distinctive note of something in the air. This time it finds more people than ever before in England’s history thinking and talking of common prayers on a vast scale, ‘•'flic Great War brought out the breadth and depth in England of our common heritage of Christian faith. The Prayer Book discussions. in its own degree. again brought out that thought, and increases responsibility with the welcome knowledge that outside the ranks of devout Churchgoers there are multitudes who instinctively and lniif consciously felt that the matter concerns them, ton."

Passing from the Prayer Rook to a wider field, the Archbishop pleads with those who have shown interest in the week’s controversy, to “Let the caring take a braver and more definite shape. Never was there an opportunity for a more widely united Christian effort. ’What- of you. my friend. You criticise, perhaps fairly, our inadequate, baiting work. Take your rightful place and help to mend and speed the enterprise.”