LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 April 1935, Page 7

LATE MESSAGES

DUNEDIN, April 24. Ronald Erridge, 13, who was critically injured on Saturday, when knocked down by a motor-car, driven by Edward Richard Quin, died in the hospital at midnight. Quin is on remand upon a cnar to o ot being intoxicated when in charge of a car. CALLANDER April 23. Dr Alan Brown, child specialist, who examined the Dionne quintuplets on orders from Mr Hepburn, at the demand of the father, declared that the condition of the babies was excellent, but two were recovering from colds. PARIS, April 24. Lucien Bossoutrot, a famous longdistance aviator, has devised a nove method of disciplining his 16-; year-old daughter.’ She is an enthusiastic aviator, and flies a baby plane each Thursday, but when the school repor is bad, her father forbids flying practice. LONDON. April 24. A horse census, taken in Britain, reveals that the number has dropped one-third in a decade. Though thoroughbreds increased from 16,.wt to 17.423, there has been a 60 per cent, decline in heavy and light van horses. Excluding thoroughbreds, all horses in 1924 numbered 1,875,215, compared with 1,246,084 in 1934. LONDON, April 24. The Duchess of Bedford has returned. She flew 10,000 miles in a month, and visited Timbucktoo. She returned via the Valley of the Nile. Her only comment on the trip, on returning to Woburn Park, was that it was most interesting.