MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIV, Issue 10085, 4 April 1924, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

NEWS FROM ALL PARTS. Captain Roald Amundsen, interviewed regarding his plans to fly to the North Pole this summer, said he was taking two Italian aeronlanes, which could glide over the ice, float on the water, run on the ground, and fly im-the air. The chief object was to search for seven companions from the Maud, who had been on the ice since 1918. He hoped to explore 1,000,000 square miles which had not been explored before. 'ln five years there would be regular voyages to the North Pole.

When the hearing of the Ellis custody case (in which Mrs Ellis, better' known as Miss Emelie Polini, applied for custody of her baby daughter) was resumed the Court in Sydney was cleared, and the case was heard in camera.

Following "Worcester's example, the authorities at Reading are converting a portion of the gaol* into residential tenements, to meet the house shortage. Viscount Curzon, charged at London with driving a motor-car at 32 miles an hour on a Chiswick highroad, was fined £2O, and had his license suspended for six months. The jiolice mentioned that defendant had 15 previous convictions for excessive speed. A " Gazette'*' contains the names of nearly 100 Irish Free State officers whose resignations have been accepted, including Major-General Liam Tobin and Colonel Dalton, also the officers taken-into custody at the public-house siege in Parnell Street. Tho King received Dr. Harold Gillie: - . a. New Zealander and Cambridge rowing "Blue," and thanked him for operating on the officers and men injured in an explosion on the cruiser Geyser last summer. The King accepted a eo»v of Dr. Gillies's book, "Plastic Surgery of the Face," Dr. Gillies is lecturing in Copenhagen on Tuesday. Dr. Gillies was born in Duncdin, and ir. an old boy at Wanganui Collegiate School, He graduated in Arts at Cambridge, and rowed in the crew of 1904, besides representing the University at golf. Dr. Gillies tok his medical course iv St, Bartholomew's, and is a reco'gvisod authority on plastic surgery. President CaoHuge announces that Mr Harlan Fiske Stone., of New York, h'\s been named as Attorney-General, succeeding Mr H. M. Daugherty. His .'•ere is 51. years, and he has been Dean •jf Columbia. University Law School sines 1910.

To date the New South Wales War y?rvice Homes Commission has provided 21,234 houses. Losses written •if in connection with homes amounts ;. £1.041,000 while tho total losses ■ g-crregate £1,629,000. The general manager of the Sydney .'.'ity Council's electricity supply, in advocating the necessity of the Government legislating to make compul- ■: •■}•%• the registration of electrical con-v.'v.-tnrp, said that under existing conditions there was a grave danger of fires and electric shocks. Probably hundreds of installations by unskilled

and unscrupulous contractors were existent, offering serious risk of fire, "If the citizens boycott the 'func tions at Holyrood Palace, as is threatened, it will he downright snobbery," said Sir.Thos Hutchinson in a speech at Edinburgh. Mrs Brown has ap pointed the Marchioness of Ailso ri lady-in-waiting. The Duke and Duchess of Atholl are advising the Brown.s who have arranged a series of levee: and dinners in connection with the forthcoming General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

[Mr James Brown, Labour M.P. for Ayrshire, was appointed Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. He goes from hi.s three-roomed miners' cottage to Holyrood Palace.] The real Richardson was discovered working on the Liverpool tramways. When admitting his identity, he said: "The imposter had a real good time. I am puzzled to know how he got away with my pension, and how he could have been given a military funeral." [A recent message stated: Nine years ago Corporal Herbert Richardson settled in Aberdeen, He claimed that he was the only Canadian to win the V.C. in the Boer War. Recently he was presented to his Majesty, and now, seven weeks after his death, it is discovered" that the man was an imposter masquerading as a dead Canadian of the same name. The military authorities did not question the man's bona fides and Richardson was accorded an impressive military funeral.]