CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 January 1938, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

RUSSIAN PRINCE. [PRESS ASSX. COPYBIGHT.] WARSAW, January 2. On New Year’s Day, an elderly beggar, supposedly deaf and dumb, was found dead from exposure at the gates of a Warsaw cemetery. He proved 10 be Prince Timothy Muratov, a cousin of the. late Czar of Russia, and a General of the Russian Imperial Army. FORTUNE STORY DENIED.

LONDON, January

The factory employee, Seddon, appeared in the Wigan Court on the maintenance charge against him. He denied he .was heir to a fortune in New Zealand. He was ordered to pay £1 weekly to his wife, and a. shilling weekly off the arrears. JACK DOYLE’S FRIEND. PALM BEACH. January 1. Mrs Godde and her husband have reunited. They are planning a second honeymoon, Mrs Godde had intended to marry the boxer, Jack Doyle. FRENCH BUDGET. PARIS, January 2. 'Hie Chamber by 527 to 63 passed the Budget as amended- by the Senate. Expenditure totals 54,739.000,776 francs and revenue 54,776,176,392 francs. The Senate and Chamber again adopted the old device of stopping the clock, so the Budget could be passed in 1937. FRONTIER GRATITUDE

LONDON. January 1

“The Times’s” Delhi correspondent says: As the result of a British officer and native scouts rescuing two Kakari labourers, buried during road-making-in Shaktu Valley, Waziristan, the Kakari tribe has resolved to abandon anti-British hostilities.

STAN LAUREL DIVORCED

NEW YORK, January 1

Stan Laurel, cinema artist, received an absolute divorce decree. He announced that he was going to marry the Russian singer, Uliana.