NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1928, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

LIFE AT 104. -Mrs Aim Grace Russell, of Fareham, South Hants, celebrated her 104th birthday recently. She rose at eleven, and spent the day quietly with her fa niily. In spite of her groat age, she I is fond of reading, with the aid of spectacles, preferring simple devotional hooks. A slight deafness is her only drawback. She attributes her long life to simple tastes and simple living. DIGAMY IVIFE. Mr .Justice Horridge said, in charging the grand jury at Surrey Assizes: “ | have just come from Maidstone, where I have had six charges of bigamy. I am going on to Lewes, where there are also a number of bigamy cases, and there are seven such cases in this calendar. lam afraid the offence is very rife, and it may be necessary to consider whether more severe punishment should not be allotted.” S'A VIXG S' l'O XF. 11 It XG E. The second of the three plots round Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, which uns threatened with building, lias been bought. The plot, which lies towards Ainesbury. is 404 acres in area. Ihe total area of land secured so far amounts to 7011 acres. For the remaining plot of ti-jf) acres north ol the main Amcshury road TIG,OOO must be raised to preserve an area of two square miles around Stonehenge. FAMOUS CRICKETER ROBB-ET). Mr E. It. Gilligan. the cricketer, attended Maryhbone Police Court to prosecute Chrstophcr Augustus Fogartby. 27. hotel porter, on a charge of stealing a suitcase and contents, value £.'55. from his motor car. Mr Gilligan, when asked bv the magistrate if he bad any other occupation besides the one known to the world, said be was a produce broker. Ho stated that lie left bis car in Brcmpton Road, South Kensington, afterwards removing it about 2 n.m. to BnniipUiii Square. Later, wbr 11 lie went to the car. be found bis suitcase missing. He identified the cuff links produced ns. bis property. They were presented to him as a member of the team which bad toured Australia, and they boro the M.C.C. colours. They were worth about £7. Fogarthv, who bad a bad record, was sentenced to three months’ hard labour. Ills; LUCKY DAY. A young man who said lie had walked from Glasgow to London to find work, who appeared at the Guildhall <in a charge of smashing a small window, was allowed £2 out of the pool box by Alderman Sir William Materlow, and it was later stated that the probation officer bad found him work.