NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1928, Page 8

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

BYRON AT SCHOOL. The addition of a portrait of Byron to 'the treasures of Harrow School may serve to encourage the boys who have no success with their lessons there—especially if they happen to be peers. He enjoyed his schooldays after the first year or so (which are usually the worst), but he never, as his biographer put it “became an eminent scholar,” indeed, he was the reverse. He could not taice any interest in “the drill’d dull lessons forced , down word by word,” so he called it in “Childe Harold.” But he never regretted this in after life.

DEAD MAN GUARDED BY DOGS. It was stated at the inquest at Guild ford (Surrey) on George Cooper, 45, a caravan dweller, that the man was found dead on the shafts of his caravan with a wound in his throat and a knife on the ground. Two large dogs wf>re guarding the body, and refused to allow the police to approach nearer than 20 yards. Final to they had to »• shot. On Cooper’s body was found £36 10s in notes ■ and £l3 in gold. The coroner returned a verdict of suicide, remarking that there was nothing to show the state of Cooper’s mind.

BONE KIPPERS. Machines for honing herrings, the first of their kind in Great Britain, are now in full operation at Fleetwood. Demand for kippers without bones is so large that another machine is being erected. With two machines running 5000 herrings per hour can be boned, as compared with 240 per hour boned by experts by hand;. 714 pound boxes of boned kippers will be available d"ilv Female labour will not he decreased by the extra demand for boneless kippers, female labour previously employed in boning herrings is new being employed in packing and other processes, !

BURGLARS DREW A BLANK. An early-morning fire at the premises of the Anglo-Scottish Engineers, Ltd., in High Road, Staratford, London, is attributed to disappointed burgtors. When it was discovered —in a building used for storing old tyres—an investigation revealed that the premises had been , rifled and the safe opened. The secretary of the firm usually kept money in the safe, hut at the time of the burglar’s visit it contained only the fire insurance policy. The Joir oi safe had been ripped clean off, and the- policy laid considerately on the desk. The building containing the tyres was destroyed, hut the offices were little damaged.

BABY’S FALL FROM TRAIN. A girl named Annie Steel, of Milhead Warton, near Carnforth, fell from a tra-n near-. Hatless Bridge, with a baby in her arms. The mother, who was travelling- in the same carriage, immediately: pulled the communication cord and the train stopped on reaching Hest Bank; station. Railway officials went down the line and were surprised to see the baby walking on the pernament way. The girl, however, was unable to move. An express train was due, but she was removed to safety before this arrived. The girl was taken to Lancaster Infirmary where she was found to be suffering from a fractured thigh. The baby was uninjured.

BACK TO THE WILD. A valuable racing greyhound, recently purchased at the Leeds kennels, has “gone back to the wild.” and defies all the efforts of a mixed army of unemployed and small boys to capture her. The dog, which has been at large for nearly three weeks, formerly, ran. at the Leeds greyhound track. Five minutes after her owner Air Clifford Shearci, a butcher, of Birstall, near Leeds, had brought her home, she: forced her way through a loose piece of wirenetting and bounded away. A 1 though the district is one of woollen mills and mines, there are severa woods in which game survives, and i: is apparent that latterly she has lived on what she hunted. Her would-be captors have been within a few feet of her, but she has never failed to sh-'W them a clean pair of heels. There is a reward lor her capture.

POLICE ARITHMETIC TEST. A case in which a doctor set an alleged drunken motorist two sums e"me before Mr J. H. Harris, the Lambeth magistrate. Vincent Newton (321, garage manager, of Jerningham Road, New Cross, was accused on remand elf being drunk while driving a motor car Ho was further charged with driving in a manner dangerous to the public and with causing bodily harm to a hoy named Henry John Salmon. Tin case arose out of a collision which occurred in Commercial Road, Pcckham, at 9.30. at night between Newton’s motor car and a cycle ridden by Salmon ’1 no hov received injuries which kept him in hospital for a fortnight. Dr Robert Govan, divisional surgeon of police, said he saw Newton at Peckham police station at 10. 15 p.m. His breath smelt of' drink, and his tongue was furred, but his gait was steady and his speech normal. He Was in a state of great nervous excitement, lie wrote down his name, address and occupation, and did two sums correctly. The doctor formed the opinion tint Newton was not drunk, but that, owing to the drink he had taken and his excited condition, he was not tit te, drive a car at the time <>l the examination. Mr Horace . Fenton (prosecuting), stated that after the ’doctor’s evidence he could not proceed, fuithei with the charge of being drunk. Tin hearing was adjourned for a fortnight. Newton being released on his own bail.