BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 June 1923, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(AuatraJian and N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW’ MOTORING RECORD. COPENHAGEN, June 23. Campbell, an Englishman, made a new world’s motoring speed, record, covering 137 miles in an hour. FIELD MARSHAL WILSON. LONDON, June 23. Countess Roberts is unveiling at Liverpool Street Station, a memorial tablet to Field Marshal Wilson, on the anniversary of his assassination. WIRELESS ON TRAINS. PARIS, June 24. Lengthy experiments resulted in the successful, installation of the Paris-Bordeaux , express, enabling passengers to enjoy broadcast concerts and nows, which were heard distinctly despite the vibration on the train. SCOTTISH EMIGRANTS. LONDON, June 23; The Athenia and Metagama have left the Clyde with 3000 Scottish emigrants for Canada and the United States. The liners Columbia and Montrose will shortly take 1200 more Scottish emigrants to America. BY-ELECTION RESULT. , LONDON, June 23; ' The Liverton (?) by-election resulted: — F. D. Acland (Liberal) .1. 12.041

Colonel Troyte (Conserv.) . 11.638 Brown (Ind. Lab.) ... 495 AMERICA CUP. LONDON, June 23. Sir Thomas Lipton states that he intends to issue a challenge for the America Cup, in 1925, with a new “Shamrock.” He says that he has not yet decided anything about the design or size of the boat with which he will make the challenge. HIS LAST CURTAIN. , i LONDON, June 10. The veteran comedian, William Rokeby, who dropped on the stage at Brighton, was game to the end, and his last curtain was perhaps the best. While suffering intense pain with heart trouble he persisted in keeping the audience convulsed with laughter till the curtain came down. Then he fell dead on the stage. COMMUNIST’S GRIEVANCE. LONDON, June 23. John Neils, a Communist, and a member of the Liverpool City Council, intends to enter the workhouse. He has been unemployed for two years, Ent thp nnnr Ti.tw Guardians have

out tlie poor Baw vjuararans nave now withdrawn the, outdoor relief from >im, alleging that he has not been attempting to find work. Neils denies this. He says he is being persecuted owing to his political views. He has a wife and three children. BETRAYING A SECRET. LONDON, June 23. Scotland Yard detectives raided the “Daily Herald” office in London, and demanded the photograph of Britain's new secret submarine, which the. paper had published. The whole staff were questioned, and even. the. messengers were detained. The blockade on the office was lifted only whe.n the Editor handed the photograph over, and the process block, and all the undistributed copies of the paper containing the picture of the submarine. A JUDGE’S AVILL. LONDON, June 23. Air Justice Bray, who left a gross estate of £107,338, like many other famous judges and lawyers, failed to make his own will correctly. Certain of his interlineations are unattested, and consequently, the will cannot be admitted to probate. In this regard, he was in the distinguished company of his former schoolfellow. Lord St Helier, for many years President of the Probate Court, and also- of Lords Halsbury, Lyndhurst St Leonards, and Judges Rentoul and Bacon. PEER’S ESTATES. . LONDON, June 23. Lord Novar’s estates have been, registered under the Scottish company law as a company, styled “Novar Estates, Limited, with a capital of £50,000, subscribed by Lord Novar and his wife. The object of the company is stated to be “Development for building purposes, the cultivation of lands which the compaiiy acquires, to secure sea and freshwater fisheries, to undertake an afforestation scheme, the granting of leases of mansion houses, and the letting of shooting rights.” PICTURES SALE.

LONDON, June 23. The trustees of the Lady Lever Art Gallery, at Port Sunlight, to-day bought at Christie’s auction Holman Hunt’s picture, “The S/capegoat,” which has just returned from exhibition in Australia, for 4600 guineas. The trustees also bought Herkomer’s “The Last Aluster,” for 2800 guineas; Cecil Lawson’s “Valley of Doom” for 1150 guineas; Fred Walker’s “Wayfarers” for 640 guineas. Fanlin-Latour’s painting of red and white roses in a vase 16in. by Win. sold for 1150 guineas. Twenty years ago it could have been bought for £2O.