NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1929, Page 7

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

PREFERRED GOLF TO HIS WIFE. A wife at Southend Police Court alleged that her husband had continually threatened to leave her and play golf. Mabel Alice Rhodes, of Cumberland . Avenue, who askefl for a maintenance order against .her husband, George William Baines Rhodes, a railway porter, said lie stopped playing golf when he married her. Later, he threatened to leave her and take up golf again. An order was made for the husband to pay 25s n week. • # • , ' / PETAL-PLUCKING COMPLEX. Suing for a divorce on the ground that her. husband had a “petal-pluck-ing complex,” a woman in Chicago told the court that whatever he saw a daisy he. pulled out its petals one by one, chanting the old refrain: “She loves me, she loves me not.” If the last petal happened to be a “not” the wife said she suffered. When j daisies were out of season the husband would recite the ritual to the petals of some other /bloom. 60 M.P.H. THROUGH CITY. Stated to have passed a policeman at a city crossing at 40 miles per hour and to have shouted. “Not tonight” when signalled to stop, Richard Arthur French, a 21-year-old motor cyclist, was fined £25 at Liverpool Police Court for dangerous driving and failing to stop. French was stated to have re-passed the constable ten minutes later at 60 miles per hour, causing pedestrians to run for I the footpath. TORPEDO ON BEACH. A torpedo fired from the Admiralty ran"o in Portland Harbour suddenly flashed round Weymouth Pier at j about 35 knots and came to rest on | the sands. Thinking it was a porI poise, hundreds of holiday . makers ran towards it. But Admiralty officials forbade them to approach within 50 yards and confiscated photographs which had been taken. There were very few people on the hejfch when the torpedo arrived. It was stated to be one of the latest patterns. Tugs towed it back to Portland Harbour.