CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27072, 22 June 1953, Page 13

CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) Parachute Instructor Killed.—A Swiss parachutist instructor, Roger Audoin. was killed today when two parachutes he was carrying failed to open during a demonstration. Audoin jumped from about 6500 feet, intending to open ope parachute first, then discard it in maid-air, and finally pull the cord of the second parachute and land with it. Neither opened.—Mannheim, June 16. Randolph Turpin Injured.—Randolph Turpin, middle-weight champion boxer, was admitted to hospital at Banbury, Oxfordshire, tohight, and later allowed to go home. It is understood the car he was driving left the road and overturned. One of two women passengers travelling with him was detained with slight concussion.—London, June 17. Aorangi’s Last Voyage.— The lines Aorangi left Sydney late this afternoon on her way to the breaking up yards in Glasgow. When the 29-year-old vessel sailed out of Sydney Harbour, all ships in the port signalled or tooted a farewell.—Sydney, June 18.

Queen Salote in Edinburgh.—Cheering crowds lined the route when Queen Salote of Tonga drove through Edinburgh tonight to her hotel. Accompanied by her daughter-in-law, Princess Mattaah, she is paying Scotland a fiVe-day visit.—London, June 17. •

“Strip-tease” in Japan.— -Police who yesterday arrested a “strip-tease” dancer for “excessive entertainment,” today warned the operators of “striptease” theatres that their shows were “going too far.” —Tokyo, June 18. Murderer Guilty But Insane.— John Haskayne, a 39-year-old London hotel porter, accused of strangling a 50-year-old woman with a nylon stocking in her Bayswater flat two months ago, was found guilty but insane by a jury today He will be detained as a mental patient indefinitely. Mr Elson Rees, defending counsel, submitted that Haskayne killed the woman after an epileptic fit when he did not know what he was doing.—London, June 18.