OVERSEAS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1933, Page 7

OVERSEAS ITEMS

JOCKEY AND A ' SAFETY-PIN. Shortly after the finish of the October Nursery race at Zingfield rejently, notification way made on the number board that the services of a uoctor wore required. it tramp, rea that B. Oarslake, who rone Bn.vhr.ght, lmd swallowed a small safety-pin. 'This evidently had no ill-effect on him, aw he rode Polar Bear into second place in the last e\eut of the day.

FORTY AVAR DERR TO ONE PRISONER.

Although there arc more than 500 cells in Cork Prison, only one of them is occupied. The solitary prisoner is, However, attended by Ithe governor, 40 warders, a chaplain, a doctor, and a staff of clerks.

The prisoner costs the taxpayers rnoie than il : he were lodged in the most expensive hotel, driven every day in a luxurious car, .and was attended by a retinue of servants.

FOREMAN’S REMARKABLE THRIFT.

AVhen John George Tanner, aged 59, appeared at the Leicester Bankruptcy Court lately, he stated that he formerly worked as a public contractor’s foreman a.t from 50s to 60s a week, and saved £llOO. AVith this sum ho took a farm at Cosaington; but he lost all his money in the lust three years.

The Registrar, in closing the examination, observed that the case was a remarkable example of thrift out of a small wage. Tanner had lived on £1 a week, and had kept his mother and his crippled sister.

FORTY YEARS TO PAY

Breach of promise damages of £2ll ■at. 2'-;. a week were awarded to a girl by the Ballvforan District Court, Roscommon. It will take the man concerned more than forty years to wipe out the debt. , ; Counsel for the girl’s father pressed for a larger instalment, but the judge said hi? order would give her an annuity for. life. He . directed that the first payment be made on December 31.

LESS' BEER. BEING DRUNK

AVhen opening the Brewer’s Exhibition at Islington., London, lately, Sir Edgar Sanders, a director of the Brewers’ Society, remarked upon the considerable decline in beer consumption.

If the decline estimated at only ! ten per cent, said Sir Edgar, and they allowed £6,750,000 for the Customs duty receivable during the year .they jirpved , p.t an estimate for .dutyreceivable of £74,000,000, against the Chancellor’s estimate of £80,000,000. Oil DEAL FOR Mil HOOVER. At the laying of the foundation stone of.the American Supreme Court’s new home in Washington, Lord Reading represented Great Britain. In the evening President Hoover gave a reception, attended by 2000 lawyers and. their wives, with all: of whom he endeavoured to shake hands. Lord Reading had the novel experience of seeing the President laid out by too much handshaking. The rings of the guests cut into his palms and fingers, with the result that his medical attendants ordered him to retire from the hand-shaking ordeal. Next day he appeared with his hand bandaged. The etiquette of the White House is that the President shall do the shaking, and the guests remain passive. On this occasion many of tlie visitors were ignorant of this time-honoured rule, and endcavoirvl to give the President a good, warm handshake.