NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1929, Page 5

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

“ DOCTOR- OF PERPETUAL MOTION.” M.r William Cullen Kemp, the “ lifelong student ” of Columbia University, has died, at the age of 78. Tradition has it that Mr Kemp remained at college because an uncle left him £ooo per annum so long as he required it for his studies. During his long stay he acquired 19 degrees,' was dubbed by hi« follow students “ D.P.AI.” iDoctor of Perpetual Motion). TINY" SNOW-SWEEPER’S GIFT. Ten-years-old Lloyd George Davis, of Rome, New York State, has sent Mr Lloyd George 4s Id for the distressed miners. The child writes: I have read about the hungry children in Wales and 1 am sorry Tor them. I am sending you a little money to gi'e to them. I earned the money shovelling snow. My father was born, in Wales. I have your picture and I am proud of my name.” Mrs Lloyd George has sent the boy a letter of thanks. THE MOONE AKERS. The Moonrakers’ Inn, Southwark, London, bears a title reminiscent of the days before the advent of the docks, when ships discharged, their cargoes into lighters in the Thames hard by. Heavy toll was taken of these cargoes by the river pirates, wlio worked in well-organised gangs. . It was their custom to sink in the liver barrels of spirits and other similar non-perishable goods, to be recovered later on at their leisure, and the story, goes that once a party of them were thus engaged when they were surprised bv the police. Asked what they were doing, the leader of the gang, pointing to the reflection of the moon in the water, replied: “We are trying to rake out that big cheese over yonder.”-