NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1929, Page 3

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

GIRL FINDS BOMB. The tenth bomb, outrage in Schles-wig-Holstein in the past nine months was reported recently. An effort, was made to blow up the residence of ViceBresident Griempe between Schleswig and Flensburg. The bomb was placed in a box against the door. It was discivered by a servant girl who bravely carried it away from the house. The vice-president submerged it in water and sent for the police, who rendered it Harmless.. A reward of £1250 has been offered for the detection of the person responsible':-

B\BY BOY'S MANY^VES. Though only live years'lpd, Peter Lan aster, of Risliton, has had six escapes from death. He was taken to Blackburn Infirmary as the result of being kicked by a horse in a field, and so sevrely injured that he has hovered between life and death. Here is a record of his more recent escapes: Fell'into canal and was rescued in the nick of time (the day before being kicked by a horse); fell from a bedroom window and dislocated his shoulder; climbed a mill roof, lost liis balance;, and saved his life by clutching • the gutter in his descent, thus breakup his fall; knocked down in the street by a horseolrawn vehicle; knocked down by a cycle. ; ' HEROIC DOCTOR.. A doctor .performed heroic rescue work v underground at the Navigation Colliery, Crnmlin when a fall of roof - buried three men. Jospeh Walters, aged 48, married with four children, was dead when rescued, hut Harry; Clarke, deputy under manager, and Ivor Smith were released after four hours’ work. The main passage where the fall occurred was blocked over an area of 200 square, feet. Dr. M. Ryan along the debris tending the injured as the miners released their limbs from masses of stone. He had to force his head and shoulders, into the aperture and thus administer brandy to Smith, who was pinned helplessly by the. arms, legs, and chest. As slight falls recurred miners worked stripped to the waist, arid only their untiring toil saved Clarke and Smith.

ALL FCR A PUP.. Riccr- "ers had to cut through a wall :Bft;' thick to rescue a six-weeks-old puppy named Joker, which had been imprisoned in an underground passage of a Liverpool warehouse for 17 hours. Joker, who belongs to Mr James Gill, •in old-age pensioner, crawled through a vertical’ grid under a step, and dropped into a shallow passage. After trying unsuccessfully to rescue him, .ir Gill called the, R.5.P.0.A., and an : nspectoi\ with the help of others, began digging operations. A part of the pavement had to be taken ■up and a hole' cut in the wall to allow the rescuer to; work his way a tong the passage and haul the puppy to safety.

PLANTING TEETH. •Artificial---teeth-' as;‘finfily- fiSM.'AS’ those provided by nature the lalj;. est achievement) by .:'derit : a|v It is .called ‘‘trEirwsipllanbing feeth, ’ and is done very much as< a -garden.er transplants trees, except that the dentist makes the false teeth and “r-lauts” them .in the old sockets. The work has been specialised in America, where women worried "their dentists so much- for false teeth to look more natural than natural - ones. Only a few London men have 'fallowedhe system, and most of those who have are either Continental or Americans with' practices in England. There is no doubt about the success of “transplanting” as it affects looks. A woman vhose face was too thin and long for aesthetic' standards was ordered by a doctor to have her -teeth extracted, and decided to have • the new set transplanted. The operation rounded her face and improved hei looks, and the new teeth looked "like a natural growth.

GOODWiTS arrive, . .The godwits, whose annual migration from North Auckland is closely followed by scientists:-and lovers ;of birds amongst whose' number -is Captoin D. Sanders, formerly harbourmaster at Te Kopuru, have now arrived in the North. The first lot was seen by the captain to arrive at a river hank opposite Te Kopuru on the 17th. inst. It was a flock of from 400 to 500 birds, emaciated after their long flight from Siberia. On a previous occasion some years ago Captain Sanders witnessed a wonderful sight of a black cloud of goodwits stretching from Tikinui to the Awaroa Creek, below R.uawia. : • - ;