NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1928, Page 8

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

DYING HOY (/YCLKK T[()3IK. When cycling lmmc in the (lurk from ;i cinema frank Spink, aged 1-!. nl - Hheppertnn, r-«» 11 ir!t*c! with a woman, an I was throw from his machine, lie got up. walked a short distance, remounted. and rode home. There lie died within a lew minutes. . SPOUT—WITH TMK GLOYKS OX. The first national Chinese boxing and wro.-dliug tce.rnaincut. has opened at Shanghai. Chinese boxing icgidatioiis permit- hitting or kicking it; any part of the tiody, and in fencing generally sharp swords and spears are used. Preparations are hi ing made to compeusate the relatives of (ontestaiits who iliav lie killed or seriously injured. Hl'XXiKd ATTACK MIA!. A young hunter who killed six rahhii.s hciinre the season for such activities was open, was brought tr ior-’ officials al Itaeinc. Wisconsin in Oetober. The defend:)lit persistcidv reiterated. “They itLlaeked me. I shot in ecli'-dofem-c.” Lawyers luive been unable to penetrate this evidence sime there wore no witnesses to the murderous assiiult. SCO SILKXT WO.MKX. "Tlicsc women are wonderlul.” was the comment of an admiring man who iistened to a. session of the annual coiiIVrente of the National Council of Women ;it. York —a conloreiicc* in which Slid women arc I dting part. “Outode.’ - be said, “they will (hatter for long <* ll <> ll «jrs l nut in here they are determined to pet ihe business done without iinnece.ssary tall;.’’ DOCS IIOWLl'il) AT AA! KHK'A X ACt KNT. An aitiu.siii;/. slor\- of two (hups was tnid. ly Lord Hiddell, wlm ro( on! ! v lei-Uii'cd .al flic Hook man Literary f'lui) at ('ax ton Hall, on “Kiurlish as .-.ho is Spoke.” When an American came to see me the other day.’ herd Hiddell said, “my two (hups sat down and howled. They were ,Scottish does, and I suppose in their nervous systems they had' a love of well-spoken Loglisle” THAT AIOXKKY LIW; XKKW The I'ei’diinieiitidisr eampaign coni.iuiies unabated in cerliiiii piirts of the I nited States, la Arkansas the fiuesiicii is To ho suhniil.led lo |r'!>'ii:ir vote at I lie m>xt election. Already more Ih in skpnni uro Imve hc-m :I>r•• iu’-d lo a proposal for 'An Ael to Prohibit in any ITiiw isiiy. Puiilic. ■ sell »oh ( o!! c-..c. or Oilier K< ! I:C.-t im-.’l, f nst iI a 1 io'i in the State (“I Arkansas', the teach i a.g dial man is descended or asi ceded from a love:’ order o! an.i■u a Is. and providing a penalty lor Hie violation thereof." HOCTS IrKHT COU/KCTOR. An inpti'i,ions fi’iiud. ('(l hnusi’vvive • was recently described at .Maryh'hone when a tailor was s• *nt,•]kc-<i to six months - hard mhour. II is nu t hod, it a is stared, was to rail at good-class 1 1 !i; as. n iji’.-seni that he had come from the l.midier. groan-grocer. or fishmonger. nil ask the oc< upier lo bring their acfouiit up to date, as the cashier at the slum was suspected, and : lie auditors were inspecting the hooks, hi twelve cases the accounts were paid and tin- hooks were handed over to him He had ;i had record. Tin*: XA’i ItI.VS ILCHK RRI'G HIIX. Two million pounds spent on modieilie ■ presorihod tor panel patients in i year sounds us if we were a very unhealthy race What tin- total amount •mr chemists take in twelve months for mnk;n;p up prescriptions it is nn-I’.s'-iiih' ever, to upi toss at. At'the least mother two millions must he paid by lemons who do not come under the lleallh Insurance Ads. Aa;d a goad lea; me,re than that must he spent on a,dent medicines. “Our total bill lor dumps probably runs into some seven millions. - ’ it C stated by one who lists studied the figure.-..