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Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1930, Page 6

GIRL SHOOTS LOVER. - A Paris midiiiefte, Georgette Hodot, shot dead in a chemist’s shop in Moiit-.:: martre, the man who had abandoned' her to marry another woman. Whenthe man, Isaac Eieliisky, ' a Wealthy" young diamond broker, entered the shop the girl pleaded with him to return to her, but lie told her to leave him! alone. She thereupon fired two revolver shots killing, him instantly, , TRAPPED BY CHILDREN. Children played a part in the arrest of a car theft suspect in Islington. They gave the alarm when a man' was seen to jump into-a c-ar“ and a motor cycilist took up the chanc. The car, however, knocked down the cyclist. A mounted police-?-man joined in the pursuit. A man jumped out of the car and. was at once surrounded by hundreds of excited children who had also joined in tbo chase. DANCING—A DUTY. “Dancing brings immense benefits to the health of the young-and the not-so-young,” said Air A. Pearce,. of London, president of the National Association of Teachers of Dancing.“Dancing,” he declared, “has ceased to be the pastime and the privilege of the few. it is the social necessity of the day. ALost doctors agree- that there is no finer form of exercise during the winter, when exercise is so difficult to obtain.” £16,000 “TIPS’’ CLAIM.

After nine years’ service in a Bordeaux restaurant a waiter brought, a suit for £16,000 damages jigamst■ athe;, proprietor. Th© allegation was; that, although the proprietor abolished tipping in the restaurant and paid the staff fixed wages, lie added 10 per cent to the bill for “service,” which iie did not turn over to the ."staff. The Court accepted the plaintiff’s contention in principle, and three accountants examined the books of the: restaurant to determine the , exact amount which could be claimed.