ITEMS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 119, 13 February 1929, Page 12

ITEMS IN BRIEF

FROM FAR AND NEAR A Society Divorce. —An Australian Press Association message from London states that Mrs. Little-Gilmour, who accompanied the Duchess of York to Australia and New Zealand, has been granted a divorce at Edinburgh on the ground of her husband’s misconduct. The case was not defended. Acquitted on Murder Charge.—Thomas Chrystal was found not guilty at Brisbane of the wilful murder of his son-in-law, Richard Devers, at Woody Point.' The accused stated that Devers threatened to blow up the witness in his house. —Press Assn. Young Woman Strangled.—Pearl Baghole, a beautiful art teacher, aged 20, was strangled to death, early on Monday morning after a night of prayer with her suitor, Dennis Barclay, 22, a scion of a wealthy English family, in his room, states an Australian Press Association message from Vancouver. Barclay was charged with murder.

Charge of Burglary.—Thomas White, alias McCarthy, a man from Melbourne, aged 22, described as a merchant seaman, was charged at Portsmouth with house-breaking and stealing jewellery worth hundreds of pounds. He was committed for trial. —Aus. Press Assn.

Mysterious Explosion.—A mysterious explosion of an apparently harmless-look-ing tea box lying high and dry on the Hooghly bank, near Diamond Harbour, resulted in thirty serious casualties, states a United Service message from Delhi.

Reparations Experts.— A. British official wireless message states that the first session of the Experts Committee on Reparations was held on Monday afternoon in Paris, Mr. Owen Young, the American delegate, presiding. The proceedings were private.

Bomb Tragedy at Peshawar.—A Court of Inquiry into the bomb-dropping tragedy at Peshawar found that the disaster was partly due to'the failure of judgment of certain officers who are being courtmartialled. The Army Secretary announced generous grants of pensions to the injured and the dependants of the dead.— United Service.

Boy Killed.— A. Press Association message from Tauranga states that John McNab McCowan, aged 8, went to play at Mt. Maunganui after school, and failed tp return home to tea. Yesterday morning the dead body was discovered under the railway wharf. It is surmised that the boy fell from the wharf, struck the wooden landing, and dropped into the water.

Wellington Labourers for Nelson.— Thirty labourers from Wellington will arrive at Nelson this week,: states a Special Service message. Fifteen are for the Wangamoa Hill work and fifteen for the Midland Railway construction works.

Rescues by ’Plane from Kabul.—A United Service message states that in l the course of seven weeks R.A.F. ’planes rescued 308 persons from Kabul, each with twenty pounds of baggage. Twelve nationalities tvere represented.

Checking Stock Speculation—An Australian Press Association message-'states that the United States Senate adopted a resolution, moved by Senator Heflin, calling upon the Federal Reserve Board to submit suggestions for legislation to correct the alleged excessive use of the reserve systems funds and credits for stock speculation, against which the Reserve I Board complained.