NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1929, Page 5

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

STREET UNDERMINED BY RATS A street in one of the oldest parts of Worcester, Li eh Street, has been found to lie undermined by rats. This was disclosed in the report of t.the cnief . sanitary inspector, Mr /-Ralph Taylor. When siiioke tests were'" applied to the sewers in Lit-h Street and die south end of High Street/ the smoko passed freely through the walls into neighbouring cellars. Uii opening up ,the s.reet numerous rat holes were found. The council also recommended to substitute glazed stoneware pipes for die brickwork. ... ■ ..->—s 1 -01 * HIGH-HEEL. STRAIN. “Fifty per cent, of Englishwomen suffer from foot trouble of some kyid,” said Mr J. H. Hiinhy, of/the London hoot Hospital and School of Chiropody, - : ; // Charlotte Street, W. High 'heels' throw an unbearable strain upon the / front arch of the foot. Once tin’s drops, the toes become splayed out,-with , the ? inevitable result that a tight shoe begins to press and cause corns,- bunions, or ingrowing .nails. The Foot Hospital’s Honorary staff .treats from 100 to 150 cases every evening, and it is linked up with similar institutions in Manchester, Liverpool and Edinburgh., . , •‘ [ "' 1 ' . ’ : • /' ' ' MAID THRASHED. • 1 r . On a charge of ill-treating and assaulting a 14-year-old servant girl, Mrs M. I. Wilkinson, 1 of Fail-head Road, Sheffield, was fined £25 and costs at Sheffield. police court. The chairman said that only the fact that Mrs Wil- •• .ansoq had two young children saved her from six months’ imprisonment/ It was stated that a dog brofye two glasses arid tore some clothes, and . . that Mrs Wilkinson blamed the girl for the damage and beat her unmercifully. The gill said that once when sue had left the garden gate open Airs Wilkinson deliberately trapped her \ fingers in the/gate.. ; •. ONLY FINAL BIR TJTNSCORED.*- ' An English composer, who left only the . final bar of an opera umicored, \ died , recently. in an Ealing nursing liqmc 'after, ay longjrtliness. She was ../’•■ MrS'Adeia.Maddis6n,,who.seopera—“l))poliija ( of the Hilis’.’—thus/left incomplete was performed in London ■with great .success a year, or’so ago. At that time Mrs Maddison was too /W ill. to score’jt;,fherself,'. but .She had .been busy a.t -it.,since,- and was working on it .a^hcDti.njjeVgf'-h^r^ileath. 1 “*• . ' ( Aiiother ; work ■.pf /.hei , is /-was”/ '.“The .-/ (Children .of 'penornied in / ’ 1 Glastonbury, but.slie was, hjg better known in- France and Ger- /;•• j. many, where sife..had spent..a ! great Mt.. deal of her life,than in England. ~ ■/ • : M : . ■ MINER'S SCHOLARSHIP AT OXFORD. k ‘ ' :'/;■/;•■ ’- . - Formerly a coal' hewer at Mains-' forth Colliery,, Durham, Air Albert/r Dowdell, of Spennymoor, is .. now : winning his way at Oxford sity. He is married and the' father, of two children,'.. Durham County . /jVEducation Authority awarded him/;a/// : '' snecinl exhibition, of £SO. His posi--,.' tion is to be reviewed a year from 1 now. He began to attend tutorial' classes in 1923, .and for four years studied economics and history. Then he j won a £SO exhibition aMijskin College . and, litter, a CasselMholar- V ship of £lls and,. another V£Bo. “So marked has his progress .been,!’ said Dr A. .J. Dawson, “that the delegacy for extra mural studies at / Oxford University have offered him' an adult scholarship of £2.15 a .year. - ’ . NOVEL CAUSE FOR. BREACH OF / PROAIISE. ' .Violation of the liquor laws is justi-. iication for breach of promise to marry, the Michigan State Supreme Court re-, eently decided. Rose Akema, of Kent County, sued Joseph J. Andruska for alleged failure to carry out a promise to marry./ Andruska’s defence was that the woman was manufaturing moonshine and home brew. Andruska : . woulc(, have been a “ d01t...” to marry ' her, the court.decided. As head of the / household he might have rendered him- : \ n self liable to prosecution had, she; continued to violate the- law. 1 MILE OF EXPLOSIONS IN OTTAWA , A series of sewer gas explosions recently occurred in the residential eastern section of Ottawa. The explosions happened noon along the line of the I main sewer for nearly a mile. Manhole tops were blown off, and two or , three fires started, and there was some- . thing like a panic. One person was killed and about 20 slightly injured. The loss i to property was considerable: three houses were wrecked, and a church was badly, damaged. The cause of the explosions was thought to be the seepage of petrol from service stations into the city sewers.

BRITISH HERONRIES. . The results of the census of British Heronries, undertaken by Mr E. M. Nicholson in conjunction with “British 1 Birds.” are published. The conclusion arrived at is> that the birds are holding their own. The number of (heronries in England is given at 216, in Wales 39, the largest numbers of breed- } ing birds being in Norfolk, Sussex, arid Somerset, and the largest individual heronry at Milton Park, Peterborough*. Sussex is also remarkable for the average size of its heronries, while the i! smallest return is made from Derby, which boasts one nest only.