SHIP ABANDONED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 239, 9 October 1934, Page 7

SHIP ABANDONED.

VICTORIA FEARED TOTAL LOSS.

(Received 10 a.m.) ADELAIDE, this day. It has been decided to abandon the Dutch ' motor ship Victoria, which is aground east of Porpoise Head. The crew left by means of the "flying fox." The pounding of the seas has loosened the plates and there is now 16 feet of water in the holds. It is feared the ship will become a total loss. QUIET HEROISM. MISSIONS TO LEPERS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 8. The Mission to Lepers, founded 00 \ - ears ago, is celebrating its diamond jubilee by meetings in London. Many greetings from its various branches abroad and from lepers in homes of the mission in various parts of the world have been received. These include a banner sent by lepers in Central China, bearing in Chinese characters the phrase, - "Kindness to the Chinese people." The record of the mission is one of quiet heroism, and as it has grown its work has received increasing recognition, particularly from the Government of India. Messages were sent to Mr. Wellcsley Bailey, only survivor of the founders of the mission.

AN IMMENSE TOTAL. SMALL SAVINGS IN BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 8. Lord Mottistonc, chairman of the National Savings Committee, estimates that the money owned by small investors in Great Britain amounts to the immense sum of £2,543,000,000, equivalent to £240 a household and £56 a head of every man, woman and child. NOTORIOUS SWINDLER. DEPORTED AFTER 14 YEARS. BOSTON, October 8. Herded with 23 others into the steerago liner Vulcania, Charles Ponzi was deported to Italy. Ponzi expressed regret at leaving America, where he perpetrated one of the most notorious financial swindles in history. Whereas ho had made an illicit fortune of nearly £3,000,000 in 1920, he is now penniless.