CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 May 1931, Page 5

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

CANADIAN DESTROYERS. [BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] ' RUGBY, May 9. The Canadian destroyer, Saguenay will leave Woolston to-morrow, to carry out power trials. A sister ship, Skeena, will follow shortly. The Saguenay is expected to commission at Portsmouth on May 27, and the, Skeena on June 11. — PRISON AS “ORPHANAGE.” PARIS, May 9. “For the first time, I am asked to turn the place. into an orphanage,” declared the Governor of the gaol at Brive, when Madame Servon, arriving to serve a 21 days’ sentence, brought her seven children, the youngest a baby in arpis. The mother declared that there was nobody to look, after her family in her absence. Long consultations at Paris ended in the suspension of her sentence. * SUGAR PRODUCTION. BRUSSELS, May 10. The International Sugar Convention signed an agreement limiting production for five years. y INSANE WIFE. , PARIS, May 10). Hitherto the French Courts have refused to recognise insanity, as a ground for divorce, but the Seine Tribunal established a precedent by granting a workman a divorce because of his wife’s madness, 'which rendered his life intolerable.