NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1929, Page 1

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

MINIATURE GOG AND MAGOG. 'file Gog and Magog, clock-jacks, and their two attendant satellities, that strike the hours and quarters on c the bells of the famous clock above the, shop of Sir John Bennett, Limited, in Cheapside, London, are exact replicas in miniature of the twin 1 Guildhall giants. , This free opou-air show, which invariably attracts a small knot of sightseers when the time approaches for the figures to get to work, was inaugurated by the founder of the firm about 1860. REAL SHOTS IN CINEMA. An extraordinarv slorv was told in llie court at Kroonstad, Orange Free State. A cinema manager, Mr Myers, was charged with culpable homicide. In order to lem. reaUsm to a cowboy filni scene, lie fired three revolver shots through the open door of the cinema hall. A native outside was shot dead. Mr Myers pleaded tiiat lie thought the revolver was loaded with blanks only. He looked out at the door before firing, and saw no one. After tho jury’s verdict of guilty, with a strong recommendation to mercy, Mr !\Tvcrs was lined £2O. AIR “MOTOR CYCLE.” “ The motor-cycle of the air ” is the description given to a tiny light aeroplane, carrying only one occupant, which has been undergoing tests at Urooklands Aerodrome, AVeyb ridge. It has been designed and built by Col. 0 L. P. Henderson. With a wing-span of only 25ft, the little monoplane, which is driven by a 40 b.p. “Scorpion” engine, can attain a speed of over 80 miles an hour, and will fly 40 miles on a gallon of petrol. ’Hie new motor cycle with wings is considered by experts to bo an augury of the time when young men on week-eml jaunts will go speeding through the air in place of along the road. The price of the little plane is to he £350. Preparations are in hand for what, it is believed, will he the biggest popular air year Britain has known. Recently work was begun at Hamvorth Park, Middlesex. the L'lmlon headquarters of National Flying Services, who are to establish 20 air-parks throughout the country, and more than 100 omergonev alighting-points and petrol depots. It is believed that before the end of the summer there will be 1000 trained light plane pilots in the country. FITTING THE CRIME. A French magistrate, who luul r milkman before him the other day. charged with fraud, told him something about the original statute deal ing with such offences. It was nas« cd in the reign of Louis NT.'(l4Bl). and it enacted that anyone who sold watered milk should have a funnel put into his throat and his own milk should be poured down it until doctor certified that he could not. without danger to his life, swallow any more. Sellers of stale eggs wor to be put into the pillory, and th'ieggs given to children, who would h encouraged to pelt the wrongdoer with their ow-n unsavoury wares.