NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 October 1928, Page 2

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

' : ; ? SAY I AIMER OF 90. . -Mime- Cuvelier, of Roubaix, who is 90. • recently gave a swimming exhibition ht Roubaix, She has been a swimmer since she was four. AA.hen she was only 11, Mine. Cuvelier saved a drowning man from the River Scheldt, and since then she has effected half, a dozen rescues. “I am still able to swim for more than an hour,” she said. “I can swim as far a.s 1 can walk.”

HEDGEHOG . HOLD-UP. No fewer than five hedgehogs put m nut appearance at a cricket match in Gloucestershire between 'Bishopston and the Bath Club’s second eleven. The Bath skipper carried two of them of, and onlookers later took charge of the family, and all five were replaced ill a hedge when the match was over. JUDGE AND A WOMAN’S WORTH. “As damages have been agreed to 1 will -grant them,- hut I doubt if the woman is worth it.” So said Mr Justice Hill, in the Divorce Court. London granting a decree nisi with £750 dam-

ages to Mr Reginald Jack Barber, a mercantile marine officer, ol Alostyn A ventre, , West Kirby;/Cheshire, because of the misconduct, oi his wife,

no Gertrude Barber, with .Air -Arthur hainslmi'y. 'Respondent was desc idled as a dancing instructress at a 1 ,melon club, and misconduct was alleged at her fiat in .Museum Street, \\ v. The petition was 'undefended.

CLINGING TO ROCK. A terrifying experience befell lon, Tourists of 801/aho, in the Italian Ty--1 wiiile climbing the;Marmolada, tlie lo.fc'iest peak nl the Dolomites. Surprised by a sudden' storbi, the party let tlie track* and were obliged to rein;: in hours Hiiig'ihg to a rock. One man collapsed from exposure and is lot expected to recover. Another accident occurred on the 1’ orcella del Picy when one of a party of three Germans >j| down a crevasse. (Although severely injured themselves, the oilier two Imiiletl their comrade up again. All three were in a serious condition when rescued by Italian frontier guards.

VIOLIN ON. TOUR. Efrem Zimbalist’s favourite violin, a Guadagnini, stolen in Lcs Angeles in April, 1927, lias—after following him about the world tor 55,00.) ally reached him at his Connecticut s immer home. He values it at £.IOOO Several months after it disappeared the thief was arrested while trying to pawn it in Chicago. At that time Z.imbalist and his wife, Alma Cluck, the singer, were in. Australia. The violin was forwarded to him there, hut he had already left. Sent after him it voy aged to Java, China, Manila, India and back- again to Australia, thence to California, and now to Connecticut.

TOO FEW GROUSE FOR KING. Lhck of grouse made it difficult this year for the Duke of Devonshire to invite the King to make his usual summer visit to Bolton Abbey, the duke’s Yorkshire seat. it. will be the first time for many years that lor this reason the King will not go to the Abbey ali hough in 1923 he had to give up Iris visit owing to jthe serious illnesseol the duke. The shortage of birds is stated to be due to the ravages of a mysterious malady which has caused havoc among the grouse on the duke’s moors near the r Abbey. Many uead birds have been found and some have been sent for expert examlination. Local farmers consider that too many

b'rds were left on the moors hist year a.id hint i n breecli Inns ..weakened I lie s'rain. / GALLOWS CONFESSION. Short Iy alter I lie execution - of William Smylie at Belfast gaol an official •iteineiib was issued that he had concssed to the murder of two sisters, c ;e .Misses Margaret and Saliar Mae - auley, at a faermhou.se near Annoy, • unity Antrim, lie was sentenced to d’.atli for the crime on July It) at t unity Antrim Assizes, Belfast. Smylie shot the women and plundered, their home. -Missing notes were f.o; ml in his boots. The official disclosure of the murderer’s confession is not made l in (treat Britain. In 1925 the Govern or oi Wandsworth prison refused to tell the coroner at the inquest alter the execution whether Norman Thorne-, had confessed to the murder of his fiancee, Elsie Caivmeron.

TEAM CAR CHIVALRY. There was recently an unusual case in Glasgow Central Police Court, \vne», a tram conductor and a passenger were charged with having caused a breach of the peace by fighting in the street. The conductor said the disagreement arose through the passenger opening a door upstairs after it had been closed to protect a woman with a baby. Tbe passenger followed him downstairs and struck him on the chin. They then got into grips and were found thus ivlien the police arrived. The passenger was lined £5 and the charge against the conductor was dismissed. Tbe stipendiary said lie was not sur prised at the conductor’s attitude. Had he been treated as the conductor had been be would have been very pinch inclined to what had been done,

M.UHHEEEICS CHILI). Isleworth Guardians, Middlesex, are in difficulty over tbe custody of a murderer’s child. The man, Harry Brampton, aged 24, a naval steward, was reprieved after being sentenced t death for the murder of bis 19-years-olll wife at Chatham. The child, bov, named Eugene, aged 12 months, Jms been adopted by the guardians, an’d now tbe parents of tbe father and the mother of tbe dead woman are both anxious to have tbe care of him. The clerk said: “ The next meeting is not. until September. The guardians will then have to exercise the wisdom of Solomon and decide who is to have the child, unless, of course, either of the parties applies to tbe High Court.”