LATEST CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 18032, 28 July 1922, Page 8

LATEST CABLES

VANCOUVER, July 27.—At Seattle the Osaka Shoscn Kuisha Line Bbcamor Hawaii Maru rammed and sank the excursion steamer Oaiista. All the passengers and the crew were rescued by the Hawaii Mum. Hie collision, which is the fourth in the : last fortnight, was due to smoko from forest fires ashore. —A. and N.Z. Cable. ,v, , • • ~ PEKING. July 27.—Unprecedented ranis and floods are ruinin' the Northern Chinese crop. Senous damage to Peking is threatened. Already 1,800 housea have collapsed.—A. aui N.Z. Cable. , lONDON July 27 —Hunt was found guilty or false pretences and Mntaoed to three years’ penal servitude Parsons and Walters were found guilty of conspiracy, and were sentenced to twelve and nine months respective!? in the Moond division. Astounding evidence was given. Hunt was a carpenter at Brighton when he conceived his bettmg scheme. He commenced circularising and advising bis clients to invest from £SO to 8100. “aid that £IOO would bring in £l7 weekly One witness gave evidence that he put in £2,400 and received back £1,600. Another gave oleine tint £94 :r , 000 was deposited in one bank account between September, U<-0, rmJ £140.000 was paid into another bank. Apparently the ietal income between June, 1919, and September, 1921, was £610.00. . r whicii £455,000 was paid out: but the facts had not been luLy c.eaaed up. For the defence it was pleaded thatllunt "as now penniless, and that he was a dull, slow-witted man, who worked out a system of betting business, -a*l it mehed in at such a pace that Hunt bad neither the ability nor the staff to deal with it. Bungling and stupidity of this kmd wwe not cnmsnal.; The jury, however, refused w acs'-ml tfie' plea.— A. and N.Z. Gable*