MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 June 1927, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

A BLIND MIGRANT. LONDON, June 1. A blind basketmaker, John Brady, aged 60, who is leaving for Australia with three families belonging to Durham and the mining village of Towlaw, is among the 700 migrants on the Hobson’s Bay. Brady, who was nominated by a sister residing at Brisbane, surprised the local shipping agent by offering to finance three families, consisting in all of 12 persons, even buying their outfits, as they were poverty stricken owing to distress due to the strike. Brady is a most popular local character, and when he entrained at midnight for London, 1000 villagers and a brass band turned out to give him a send-off. HENLEY REGATTA. LONDON, June 1. The chairman of the Henley Regatta explains that Germany is ineligible for entry, because foreigners must be vouched for by the governing body with which Henley had signed an agreement. Germany has not resumed the agreement since it was broken off in 1914. PASSPORTS FORGED. LONDON, June 1. The Vienna correspondent of the “Daily Mail” telegraphs that a thriving trade in passports, believed to have been financed by the Soviet, has resulted in the arrest of a police official, Musil, chief of the Passport Office at Bratislava. He has been charged with selling passports to Bolshevik agitators. The British Consulate has instigated investigations because several Soviet agitators whom the British police arrested carried passports manufactured at Bratislava. ACCIDENT TO ACTOR. LONDON, May 28. Mr Nelson Keys, the well-known actor, was thrown to the ground and, for a moment, rendered unconscious when a real bomb exploded at Twickenham during the filming of an air raid scene in the war film, “Mumsey.” His right hand was badly injured.

Pauline Frederick recently, was rendered unconscious in a similar man ner, and suffered a cut on her head,

SICK MAN’S WEDDING. LONDON, May 28. In spite of an announcement of the indefinite postponement of the ceremony, Mr A. P. de Courville, theatrical manager and producer, insisted on an immediate wedding to-day. He telephoned to his bride to come immediately to the nursing home, where he was an inmate, and to the registrar to be ready, and ordered a florist to rush to the registrar’s sufficient roses to lavishly decorate the office. Looking white and ill, he accompanied his bride to the registrar’s, and almost collapsed during the preliminaries, but was revived by a glass of water and smelling salts, and was able to stand during the brief ceremony. He went out leaning on his wife’s arm and immediately returned to bed in the nursing home. His wife says his breakdown is due to overwork, and that he was “just crazy” for the wedding, which the doctors thought might help to restore his health. WOMAN AS GENDARME. LONDON, May 30. A woman, wearing a police cap and tunic, yesterday stepped into the roadway at one of the main entrances to the city, states the Paris correspondent of the “Times,” and, with upraised truncheon, signalled the traffic to stop. The policewoman has not yet appeared in Paris, but the woman s authorative gesture was respected, and long streams of cars accumulated. The woman kept her truncheon uplifted, despite the cars’ impatient hooting, until a policeman investigated the hold-up and arrested the woman, who is well-known to the police for other activities. She explained that she had read in the newspapers that women would shortly be recruited for police service, and she desired to practise before qualifying.

STOLEN CAR TRAGEDY. LONDON, May 28. Alfred Jones, aged 19, was remanded at the Richmond Police Court today on a charge of manslaughter of Tich Power and Mrs Emma Wheeler, who were killed when a stolen car ran amok. Joiies, a boyish figure in a smartlycut overcoat and light brown suit, was escorted by two constables. As he passed through the lines of hissing and shouting demonstrators, he was obviously very affected. He hung his head, while tears coursed down his cheeks. The police formally gave evidence of the arrest of Jones, who was sobbing uncontrollably. He did not reply to the charge, but merely shook his head. A large crowd awaited his exit, and silently watched his departure. BANKRUPT’S PLEA. LONDON, May 28. Giving evidence during his examination in bankruptcy, Thomas Dean declared that an income tax demand of £12,000 drove him crazy, and thereafter he travelled throughout Europe, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and India. The Receiver: “Did you go for the purpose of finding work?” Dean: “I went as a madman.”

MOTORS AND FUNERALS. LONDON, May 28. There is a local superstition in the Lake District that it is unlucky for a motor to pass a funeral. Though an accompanying car pulled up, a new one, in which Mr Kendal, a bank manager, and Mr R. McLelland were taking a driving lesson near Morecombe, sped on and almost immediately collided with another car and toppled over a 40ft. cliff on to a rock-strewn beach, being smashed to smithereens. McLelland, his nine-year-old son and a mechanic are in a critical condition as a result of the injuries sustained. ' VENEZUELAN PRISONS. LONDON, June 1. ’the New Y6rk edrrespondent of the “Daily News,” referring to the ordeal of Captain Brining, of Liverpool, in a

Venezuelan prison, where he has been awaiting his trial for a month following the collision of his steamer Ninian and another vessel, describes Venezuela as the Siberia of the Western world. He describes horrors in the gaols, and says that 20 prisoners shared an underground dungeon measuring 4yds. by 14yd,s. Their ankles were bolted with great weights and the men cried aloud for water and food, or for a weapon or poison with which to kill themselves. AMERICA AND MEXICO. WASHINGTON, May 30. It is understood in circles close to the State Department that Mr J. R. Sheffield, the American Ambassador to Mexico, will shortly be replaced by someone more acceptable to the Government of Mexico, with a view to improving the existing situation, and finally reaching a basis foi' amicable relations with the southern Republic. GERMAN BANK ROBBERY. LONDON, May 29. Aeroplanes were used at Osnabruck (Hanover), telegraphs the Strasbourg correspondent of the “Times,” to hunt a murderer who had shot and robbed a bank messenger. Seizing a bag containing the equivalent of £4OO, he jumped into a waiting motor car. The police took up the pursuit in cars, while aeroplanes kept the fugitive’s car in sight until the police overtook and arrested him. WOMAN MOTORIST. LONDON, June 1. Miss Violet Cordery, who recently crossed Australia on a motor tour of the world, spoke to her mother at Cobham (Surrey), by wireless from Seattle, over a distance of 7000 miles. For 20 minutes she gave an account of her experiences. Alluding to Aus, tralia, she said: “They are simply mad about British cars.”