INTERESTING ITEMS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 193, 24 April 1915, Page 8

INTERESTING ITEMS

_..' ft- —. v ' r ; I: ■ SH OCKI N.G. CH iLD SLAV E R Yd j ■' — -> -i- 'ft Remarkably facts regarding chiUyHa-. bour were disclosed £the* other wjfejek a Factory .-Acts prfSsccUjl |>n against the. Woods Bottle ] Wo|ls„ Ltd., of Portobello- near Edinburgh. The evidence showed that children^beatween twelve and thirteen yearsCjjof • age worked m the bottle works throughout the night. • The children attended school at night'worked ujfitil flyp the next, morning, and later retunfns,eflc .to." school. One boy teoHapsedijan •school. "It takes us •back-a hundred years," • said the prosecutors A phe pi .£lO was imposed. ' . fjt A OLD LADY'S 3 AD". DEATH. ||l !•. v,■ fcy'rjiing accident occurred at Hull en a recent Sunday morjti;ing,'/;tl*e victim being an aged ladjy, , FannpKent ceo 83'Widow;•of a retired •farmer. BercJ*sp.d lived »alone at Jifer residence in Walton -Street Just --ife- ] fore .nocn her nephew called to stee I her. Gaining ad unit tanks'-to the house l,he found the interior full of smoke. j and was horrified to-discover his aust I lying in the passage near the' kitchen. Every 'stitch of clothing was burned i off the body which ' was 'shockingiy charred. A hi? Afire; blared in tile kitchen; the Sunday dinudr. . 3ATTLE IN A CIRCUS. Augusta (6a.), February 13. —"Kn;ger," a leopard valued at ~ £6O, the I property of Smith Brothers' Greater j Shows, was killed in a fight between seven.lions anrl throe leopards in (he arena at the winter quarters of the show. The seven lions had been turned into the arena while attendant?,; wore at work cleaning the cages. One j of Ilia"lionesses jumped against the leopards' cage and the cage door was thrown even, the three leopards leaji? iim to che ground. Before the attend -•* ■ .; • dan's ceuld interfere the' fight was on l j the leopards immediately attacking th;<j| (lions. All the show help was summoned* ! and the animals were .finally separate- 1 | cd, but net before "Kruger" had been, killed. The other animals all show wounds and the attendants received] scratches in the work of separating; the beasts. j UNSUSPECTED FORTUNE. ■': I "J ran in a curious wrfy. She married antAu;.ti*i::n subject named Silbermaim,'.' who enlisted in the Foreign Legion, r-.nn is at present A.Aoneu in Algeria. Hi;, wife with her two children was authorised to remain in Paris, but theiy property was put under sequestration. The sheriffs officer charged with making the inventory found a receipt of the Credit Lycnnais for ? lottery ticket which in (he drawing ■ i. July 6 last had r.c-curp-l '"■■■ .- P ? 000 prize. Mme. Silbermann now applied to the court to ho allowed a certain sum to buy furniture ami the allowance of £2O a month. The court decided to give her £l6O for furuiturt. and the allowance she askAL Tim re:-iuue is to be invented in. Treasury Lends for the National Defence.