LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 October 1926, Page 5

LATE MESSAGES

BLENHEIM, October 22. The work of laying a land cable between the new repeating station at Seddon and the mouth of the Blind River, a distance of five miles, ib* the purposes of a system of telephone communication between the North and South Island was completed yester* day. The section of cable yet to be tested and pointed, will' be brought into us e when the repeating apparatus is installed at Seddon. The repeating apparatus has the effect of amplifying the volume of sound over the circuit. * ? AUCKLAND, October 22. Hazel Mary Carswell, 25, was charged at th e Police Court with obtaining goods from several city firms by false pretences, and ' failing to comply with conditions of her release upon probation in respect to a previous conviction. She was sentenced to be detained at Borstal for a term not exceeding two years.

SYDNEY, October 22. After a lengthy discussion, the Convention of the Anglican, Church carried a resolution providing that no decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, or any other Court in England, on any question of faith, ritual, ceremonial or discipline of the Church of England in England,, shall bind any Court or tribunal on any question of faith, ritual, ceremonial or discipline of the Australian .’Church, but ..nothing in this section shall preclude any such decision from being cited to any Court or tribunal as a persuasive precedent. r lhe Archbishop, during the delivery of his charge to the Synod, referred to spirituaTnealing, and said it was indisputable thta spiritual healing had not taken that place in the ordinary ministrations of the Church which many of them had expected in the first thrill of the Hickson Mission. He suggested that investigation be made into the reasons why spiritual healing had in so many quarters dropped out of sight.

MELBOURNE, October 22.--William Frederick Curry was found not guilty of murder on the ground of insanity, and was ordered to be detained during the Governor’s pleasure. . SYDNEY, “ October 22. Showing the rise in the value of city property Pfahlert’s hotel, Wynyard Square, much frequented by Nbw Zealand visitors, was sold for’eightytwo thousand pounds. The property changed hands in 1921 for, forty-seven thousand. ~ c -'L ■ 1 MELBOURNE, October 22. By covering a hundred miles unpaced in four hours and twenty-three minutes thirty-nine seconds, Hubert Opperman broke the world’s and Australasian professional, cycling records. ’ -J SYDNEY, .October 22. The Sydney police are notified by the New eZaland police that the relatives of the New Zealand drug addict who twice escaped.from Rotbroa Island, are not prepared to pay his return passage to New Zealand. The man-being penniless he will be cared for by the New* South police pending further inquiries.