NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1928, Page 7

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

RING IN BEACH SHINGLE. While bathing at Torquay a woman visitor lost from lior finger a diamond ring valued at £l5O. When the tide receded, search was made by attendants and others, hut without success. Eventually shingle was gathered in buckets and prawn nets and after a large quantity had been searched the ring was found by a' beach attendant, who was suitably rewarded. DAUGHTER’S BROKEN HEART. Grief stricken by the death of her father, Miss Winifred Elane Davis, a cousin off Mr Thomas Davis, the Jersey millionaire, who owns the famous racing yacht Westward died suddenly three months ago while walking with Mr Thomas Davis, his uncle, in St, Holier. Since then, Miss Davis had been grief stricken ,and had spoken of nothing but her father’s death. She was ;U years of age, and, according to her relatives and friends, showed no sign of any illness.

£7OO THEFT IN POST. The loss of a package of bank and treasury notes to the value of £7OO in the post between Ross-on-Wye and Newport, Monmouthshire, has been revealed./ The package was dispatched by the Midland Bank, Ross, to the branch office at Newport. It was registered at the local post office, but when the parcel arrived at its destination the notes had disappeared. Detectives are puzzled by the fact that the seals of the package were intact. The method of abstracting the notes is a mystery. A similar robbery occurred several months ago when, treasury notes dispatched from Lydbrook Post Office were stolen from a mail hag. THE TILE TROT DANCE. A new dance called the “Tile Trot,” inspired by a cat walking on the tiles, was demonstrated in London to 500 members of the Imperial Society of Dance Teachers, by Major Cecil H. Taylor, president, who introduced the Yale Blues. It is danced to the rhythm of the tango, and in the opinion of some of the teachers is likely to become the dance of the coming season. Another body of experts maintain that it is ugly and ridiculous. “ It can only he compared to a cat walking on hot bricks,” Mr Santos Cnsini, the famous ballroom dancer told a “Daily Chronicle” representative. “The dancing public are tired of paying high fees to learn silly crazes like this. They are satisfied with the waltz, in which they have a really beautiful dance.”

WOUNDED DOG VISITS DOCTOR. In the casualty ward of the Western Suburbs District Hospital, Sydney, some weeks ago, the doctor on night duty found a little fox terrier sitting on the floor and whining as he held up a broken, bleeding paw for the doctor’s .examination. Apparently he had been run over by a car passing along the Liverpool Road, and he had struggled into the hospital, which faces that roau. He sat patiently while the doctor dressed and applied splints and bandages to the paw, and then the kind-hearted doctor gave him into the care of a nurse, and admitted him: to the hospital. “Peter,” he has bben dubbed by the staff, and patients all ask after their doggie fellow. The nurses describe Peter as a “dear,” and say lie’s convalescent now, for he no longer needs his splints and bandages, and trots busily about —the hospital’s permanent patient.

RED-HAIREP PEOPLE. “ Schoolboy terms, such as ‘Carrots,’ ‘Ginger,’ and ‘ Coppernob,’ directed jestingly at those with red hair, may embitter young people against their feuows,” said Or H. Crichton Miller, addressing the Summer School of the British Social Hygiene Council at Cambridge. “We may all think red hair a joke, but it is not a joke to its owners. They may grow to regard it as a joke when they reach mature years, but the experience in earlier years of their appearance in a schoolroom or the street being the signal for a joke lias twisted their whole attitude to the human herd.” There were all sorts of -misapprehensions about the red-haired person, said Dr Miller. It was tiiought rebels, adventurers, and wild people like that had red hair as ;i physical symptom, the real If act ol the matter was that red hair led to an attitude of permanent self-defence. WEDDING SURPRISE. Joseph Charles Reynolds, a private in the Northamptonshire Regiment, was arrested a few yards from the door of St. Sepulchre’s Church, Northampton. where arrangements had been made for his marriage with Miss Eli//- 1 . both Harris, of Hampston Street, Northampton, the Vicar of St. Sepulchre’s (the Rev. Basil King) was waiting in the church, but, owing to inhumation he had received, would not .have performed the ceremony had Reynolds -arrived. Miss Harris, who was accompanied by her stepfather and mother, was spoken to by a detective just before she reached the church. Becoming distressed, she quickly returned home, where she declined to be seen or to make any statement. The marriage banns had been published on three successive Sundays, and no objection made. Reynolds, following his arrest, was charged at a special couit with being an absentee and was handed over to an escort.