NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1928, Page 8

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

PEER'S PRAYERS.

“ 1 desire tcj be buried at Stamford-on-Avun with no (lowers, and no memorial except a slab with an inscription begging prayers lor my soul, and I earnestly hope that no one will attend my funeral unless willing to pray lor me.” This passage was contained in the will of Alfred Thomas Townshend \ erney Cave, fifth Lord I!rave of Windsor, who died on July I, leaving unsettled estate of the value of £‘43,(5-16. with net personality i‘68,896.

HOMAX COINS DUCS UP IX LONDON A nine-year-old schoolboy has unearthed about 6(10 silver coins of the (lonian era while digging in a garden at Cranley Cardens. Aiuswell Hill, and the coroner for Hornsey has summoned a jury to decide whether the discovery is treasure trove. The boy. Coral I Denis Grimsdell, found the coins at a depth of about Ift. with them being pieces of an earthenware vase in which they probably were contained. About the size of sixpences, the coins are in i splendid state of preservation. British Museum authorities consider they ire a link with some of the earlies 1 , lays i'f the Roman occupation. Sum of them may !ind a place in the na iional collection.

SINISTER SILK. Three women became ill alter liand'ing a piece of artificial silk which was bought by Mrs Core, cl Boundary Road. Hampstead, when she was ii Bonsai nee. Some time alter working on the material Mrs (tore was overcome ■nd is still .suffering from the alto effects of the attack. A 'friend of Mr: Core said to it reporter, “ Mrs Cor: nee; me ill with a horrid nausea and sickness. A dressmaker who was cal iwl in to finish the dress soon sltowec. lie same .symptoms and refused to have anything to do with the material A woman doctor who was shown tic material suspected arsenic in it. Ih' id,lie analyst of the borough came to •’no conclusion that there was a strong smell of iodoform, hut that there was nothing about, the material which "oult 1 e deleterious to health.

EMPTY RACING BOAT AMOK. A remarkable incident gave increased interest to the recent - British undo mil racing at Southend. ( rowds on (lie pier head.saw the Nortigal—one of ln> speed boats travelling across tin 'siuar.v at- full speed with no one aL th'•elm. The- owner Mr Gus Weber, bad cen thrown 'from the I oat, and immediately other competitors in the race saw what had happened they left tin •ourso and chased alter the Nortigal i (raft- capable of developing IS knots i..c boat made for the Kent side of tin •stuar.v. but half-way across she turned hack, and after narrowly miss big collision with the anchored line" \rgyllshire, again made for the pier throwing up sheets o'-f foam. Then tie petrol gave out, and her purs"ors caught up with her. It appears ilia' in swerving io miss a pleasure boat Mr Weber caught its backwash, which with, the backwash of the Nortigal caused the latter to jump right out o' ‘lie water and throw its owner. An ■ tlier boat, the Norsrrk, piloted by Mi K. Potter, picked up Mr Weber, win 'rom it sat and watched his runaway craft.

TALL MEX’S CRIEYAXCES. A movement In make tlio world s:ift l ‘«r long-legged moil bus recently been biuiu'liod in Canada, whore a hranoh L being organised of tin* Daddy Long ! egs Club of Ohio. A thousand six motors arc ancady mombors ol the iriginal oluh. which was formed two voars ago to secure Ity legislation and itlier means longer baths, higher doors taller street-awnings, and bigger Pul 1 man berths and hotel hods on behalf ol men of seventy-two inches or over. Tin average height of the clnli’s member* is Oft 2;;in. The chib owed its incep tion to the students of Ohio State "Tir versify. but its fame spread rapidly and with it recognition of the liard- ■-! 1 ins imposed on towering members o! human race. The city authorities o' Columbus, Ohio, led the way by enact mg an ordinance that iherealter al awidmrs he raised to seven leet. blotch in Columbus and elsewhere quickly fob If*wed suit eonipping at least one Horn in jbeir establishments with long bed for the benefit of six foot patrons.

PKIXCK AXD THE ROK ROWED FMRRELLA.

When the late King Edward was an undergraduate at I rinity be lived at Madingley Ha!!, a few miles out o'’ Cambridge, and one day while walking hack to tlie bouse was caught in heavv rain. Hoing just then e!o<e to a roadside cottage lie begged the loan of an umbrella from the old woman win' lived there. “Yes. I’ve got one you can have.” said she; but if proved singularly decrepit, and not at all to lh(i ijking ol hi is Royal Highness. 1 see another one over there by the stove,” said the Prince, ••couldn’t you lon'd me that?” “That em>?” almost shrieked the old woman. “Why. that’s iw new one that I go to market with • I wouldn’t lend that to the Prince of Wales!” And she d'dn’t. Hut history records that a day or two late' the borrowed umbrella was returned, together with a new one. which bore the inscription: “So tint . vou m ‘ l ' alwavs have one to lend the Prince of Wain;.” the mystic double meaning o' which it took the old lady several da>s to fathom.

FOl’R WILES A VICAR POSTCUITL A postcard posted in London over 21 years ago lias just lioon delivered to the addressee, the soil of a Long Sutton (Linos.’) bank manager. The card bore a halfpenny stamp, which had been

cancelled at Balham Post Oflicc, the date and time impressed clearly reading •‘4.45 p.m., May 6. 1904.” By a remarkable coincidence the writer of the card was visiting Long Sutton when it arrived, and a day or two later the boy to whom it was sent arrived home for his summer holidavs.

NO FOOD IN HOUSE. When .James Tolley, an employed miner, of Hemsworth, was sent to prison for three months at Pontefract for' neglecting liis wife and five children. it was stated that the only food in the house was an cgg( a slice ol bread and some lard. It was added that- T-olley owned nine valuable homing pigeons, lmt although his family were without food, lie refused tb~"sell them and fed them on Indian corn. The wife said that the only hoots the eldest hoy had were some he had picked from a public refuse tip.

“SWISHING” GHOST ALA PAL Stories of a white- object- “swishing” past, of a baby snatched from its mother’s arms by some ghostly hand, of caps being lifted off people’s heads, and of eerie noises at night, are edited. round Tinchicsland. a crumbling tenement in Low Quarry Street, until now hundreds of people refuse to pass the building after dark. A newspaper correspondent visited the building and round the dark and grimy staircase an ideal haunt for spirits: “There have been queer happenings hero, but ! do not believe in ghosts. An old minister lived here years ago and his spirit- is supposed to haunt the place.” Many refuse to listen to the suggestion that the spirit is a practical joker.

R I'X’ORD OF A MONFTER OF THE DEEP.

The thresher shark of huge dimen Jons, caught at Abbotsbury, near Weymouth. off the famous C'hcsil Beach, does not break the record as England’s greatest marine monster. That honour belongs to the East Coast, as witness in old chronicler. Near Broaclstairs, on July 9, 1674, a “monstrous fish shot himself on shore and for want of water lied next day, his roaring being audible a mile away.’’ And the ehroniecr gives various details about his monstrousness. 1 A man stoood upright in his eye-socket, and three men found ample accommodation is his mouth, his jaws opening 12ft, and his tongue being loft long. His total length was 66l't and his eyes 12 ft apart.

CHINA’S (JREAT TROUBLE. “Anyone who can assemble a low thousand soldiers and occupy some ihico is at once a militarist, and tinier each big militarist there is ahvavs i group of small militarists, who in time supplant their chiefs and step into heir shoes. This is a condition which cannot find a parallel in other coiim‘ries. It- is true that at one time >r another in the history of other rcuihlies there was always a period in vliich the the military and the civil ■iithorities competed for ascendancy. Mid which the'civil authority usually uibellied the military in the end. bur ii China, this problem cannot he solved a> easily to-day because civil author- ; tv has yet to bo constituted. Civil uithority must represent some class or •lasses combined. In China this atithority, as organised by some preloininating classes, either bourgeois or orolotarian. and capable of represent:ng them and exerting itself, is a tiling that has to ho created ” —Air. AY. C. Koo in his hook. “The Tvuominlang.”