BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 December 1924, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(Australian and N. Z. AwociatW 1 • INDIAN’S, GENEROSITY. } DELHI,. December 29> The Viceroy has received 500,000 rupees from iSif . Victor Sasson, in memory of his late father, the gift to / be devoted to relief of poor women., and children. COLD IN . U.S.A, i , NEW YORK, December 29. ( . The thermometer at' Chicago registered twelve degrees below zero,/the coldest since 1886. Terrific weather all through the Mi.>WWest. — CAR FALLS INTO RIVER. \ LONDON, December Four personp, including. a£» blind man, were, drowned owing, to the.skidding of a touring car.'containing six persons, which broke through a bridge and fell thirty feet into the .Stokesay River, in Shropshire. Four were pin- ' ned ben,eath the car. The chauffeur jumped clear and escaped...' Another 1 was rescued. I — 1 PUNJAB RIOTS. . DELHI, Dec. '29. Discontent over the land revenue settlement in Suket State, Punjab, culminated, in riots and. disorder, resulting in arqon;rand,'looting of the revenue ministeris residence which ’ was burnt. The, Agent,; oj\ the Go-vernor-General for Punjab states that he has arrived with a ‘ detachment of . troops, and . the. situaitipn ( is - now qqlet. ■. ' • ' i’.'

AERIAL, DISASTER LONDON, December 29. At the inquest on the victims of the Croydon air disaster, the; Coroner, in his opening address', said that the disaster, was. the most terrible in the history of civil aviation in England! He’ deeply sympathised With, the relatives "and friends -of deceased. He trusted that it might comfort them to kpow there was reason' to believe that the "pilot and 'passengers’ were, all 'unconscious before they reached the. groupd or immediately .upon impact. ,Their injuries Were terrible but their sufferings were m.ercifully short, and probably' nowise commensurate with the injuries. -