NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 October 1930, Page 8

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

EXPLORER'S SON FINED. Mr Peter Markham Scott, an under, graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, son of Captain Scott, the famous Antarctic explorer, who died witTi his companions while returning from month by the Cambridge nr gistrates for obstruction with his motor car and for having no lights. BEDTIME MESSAGE ON A WREATH “The fire is dying out; the water is nice and hot; the windows and doors are bolted; the mouse-traps are set, and there are no mice.—Good-night, Sir John.” This, the nightly message of the chauffeur to Sir John Bickerstaffe, Blackpool’s- “G.0.M.,” was the inscription on the chauffeur’s wreath at' the funeral of Sir John in London recently. TOUR OF FRAUD. No fewer than 80 warrants wore issued in England for a man with 30 aliases, who was wanted for frauds all over the country. His method was to stay at hotels, cash spurious cheques, and disappear with any of the luggage belonging to fellow guests on which he could lay hands. He had been stealing cheque books, books, jewellery, wallets and cards. They all formed part of his stock-in-trade and enabled him to impersonate one individual after another. A NOVEL TREASURY. Five hundred poor children in the Tottenham Court district of London enjoyed a day’s outing in the country on the money collected from the barroom ceiling of the Fitzroy Hotel in Charlotte Street. For the past five years it has been the practice of customers at the hotel to wrap silver and copper coins in tissue paper to which a tack is fixed, and throw the missiles at the roof, where they remain for the rest of the year. This year £B7 6s 6:]d was collected from the ceiling. There was os worth of farthings, £37 worth of coppers, and £47 worth of silver. The rest of the money was in notes. A WILLING STOWAWAY. Found in one of the bunkers six days after the steamer Piako left Brisbane, Otto Genner (37), a hairdresser, of Ox-

ford, was charged at AVest Ham, London, with being a stowaway. The New Zealand Shipping Company said they prosecuted only because they were compelled. After Germer was found he was put to work, and proved extraordinarily- willing. He did duty as a trimmer, and when one of the regular trimmers fell sick in* put eneig,> into his task and did three men’s work. He was a British subject, and stowed, away because he wanted to get to his wife and children in England. He was bound over. ROMAN DRAIN PIPES. Workmen excavating to lay now pipes in St. Janies’ Square, London, unearthed some wooden drain pipes which were in an excellent state of preservation. The 1 bark was still adhering and the pipes could have been used for drainage purposes, for , which they were laid in far off days.

Square ,blocks of oak bored with round holes, were found near the Bank of England some months ago, and

were believed to be Roman water pipes. The St. James’ Square pipes must have been laid soem hundreds of years ago. Similar pipes were discovered some years ago in Holborn. At one time they were commonly used.

GLIDER ON TREE TOP,

A friendly duration competition between members of’the London and Lancashire gliding clubs, had an amusing ending at [vinghoe, Buckingham. London members were leading Lancashire by- six minutes, when the last Lancastrain set off iroin the top of the Beacon. An air current carried him over a coppice and the machine came to rest on an even keep on top of a high tree. When informed that the tree top method of remaining in the air was not permitted by the rules, the pilot replied: “Oh, well,,,.send up a lift.’ After half an hour he was rescued by a rope thrown from another tree. London members won the competition by a few minutes. BOY AIOTOR CYCLIST EXPELLED. Parents of a Bromley schoolboy .who was expelled from school for taking bis friends on the pillion seat of his motor cycle appealed against the ruling to the Board of Education. The boy, Edwin Romilly (15), who was a pupil of the Bromley Central School, was due to leave in a fortnight’s time. “1 was forced to expel the boy;” said Mr J. J. Webber, the headmaster, “for the sake of the discipline of the school. The rule was made that two boys must not ride the same cycle or motor cycle on account of the number of accidents which occur through that cause. Romilly repeatedly broke the rule.” The headmaster’s action was supported by the Kent Education Committee. HER MAJESTY’S CIGARETTE. Someone- in Britain has sent a reply to the Social and Morality Department of the Rockford Women’s Christian Temperance Union, who recently sent a cable to Queen Alary, saying they had challenged the statement that Her Majesty occasionally smokes a cigarette. Airs Myrtle Wolfrum, of the Union said the following cable had been received : “Soap and lemon remove nicotine stains. Unfortunately they do not extract Chicago gunmen’s bullets. Now chirp.” This was signed “Alary R.” Although it was quite apparent that the reply did not come from Queen Alary, Airs Wolfrum said she was not quite sure whether the Queen or one of her joke-loving subjects had sent the cable.

i CORSET STRIKE OFF. CHORUS GIRLS HAD THEIR WAY CHICAGO, October 15. Th-i curtain at the Great Northern Theatre was 50 minutes late in rising owing ‘to a strike by the chorus girls against an order of the mahagement that they should wear corsets. Tim dissension over corsets followed the show from New York. Lillian Lane, who headed the strikers, said the girls would not wear them. The girls were given a fortnight’s notice of dismissal, and the Actors’ Equity ordered them to obey the order. They still refused and, finally, a message to New York resulted in a« instruction from J. J. Schubert. th“ producer, to let the girls have their way.