NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1930, Page 6

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

LIFE SENTENCE FOE BOY. George Daniecki, aged 15, was saved from the electric chair after having been found guilty of first degree murder in New Jersey. With two older youths, Daniecki battered a man to death with a piece of iron, after stealing £l. At the trial the jury recommended him to mercy, and 'the judge imposed a life sentence. AVAR RELIC IN ENGLAND. Children playing in field at the rear, of. the premises of Messrs Pil-inore-Bedford and Sons, motor engineers, in Bromley Road, Catford, found a bomb. They took it to Mr Pi'lmore-ißedford, who- handed it to the police. It was an uncxploded German bomb which apparently had been dropped from an aeroplane, TASTE IN SOUVENIRS. American tourists on a recent Mediterranean cruise .spent £15,000 on souvenirs. Mr Herbert G. Weiss, cruise manager of the Calgaric, made this statement when he left Southampton for (America on the White Star.liner Homeric. Brass work from Damascus, Persian rugs, jewellery and antiques from Egypt and hoy relics from Jerusalem, including olive wood Bibles and crosses, lie said, find most favour. BEDSIDE SERVICE, An ex-soldier, gravely ill, wished to bo confirmed by the Bishop of Durham. The Bishop travelled 30 miles, and arrived in full vestments at the home of Air Walter Forster, at Brussels Street, Gateshead. Air Forster, who wan wounded and gassed in the war, had been seriously ill for ten months, confined to his bed. The service was carried out to the great gratification of the sick man. SIXPENNY LIMIT. “These seem terrible stories—‘Daring Diana,’ ‘Love the Outcast,’ and ‘Passion of Youth, ’ remarked Air AV. B. Luke, a London magistrate, when.-? a boy was charged with stealing novels. The Shopkeeper: They are not nearly so bad as the pictures on the covers indicate. Anyway, you can’t get anything very bad for 6d.