NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 July 1939, Page 7

NEWS IN BRIEF

EPSTEIN’S “ADAM” SOLD

[PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.]

LONDON, July 15.

It is revealed that Mr. Charles Stafford, a gold-mining company director, has purchased Epstein’s sculpture, “Adam.”

GIFT TO PRINCESSES

MONTREAL, July 14.

Mrs. Roza Brown, 83, stood on the docks bidding farewell to a three-months-old lamb, which she is sending as a present to the English Princesses.

The lamb bears a tag: “I am your Tiend. I want to play with you.” Mrs. Brown travelled 300 miles with he lamb from Kirkland Fair.

ATLANTIC AIR-MAIL.

LONDON, July 15.

Imperial Airways announces the inauguration of a weekly air-mail service between Southampton and Montreal on August 8.

SPAIN-AND ITALY.

SAN SEBASTIAN, July 15

General Franco and the Italian Foreign Minister (Count Ciano), during talks, affirmed complete solidarity of viewpoints and objectives, and decided to develop collaboration in the service of mutual interests.

SPEECH BY HITLER.

MUNICH, July 16.

Herr Hitler opened the National Art Exhibition. He spoke for 15 minutes, but did not refer to politics.

NEW ZEALANDER EXPELLED

LONDON, July 16.

The "Daily Telegraph’s” St. Moritz correspondent says that, in accordance with the general order, a New Zealander, A. P. Thomson, has been expelled to Switzerland from Bolzano, where he was spending a climbing holiday. He was not aware of the prohibition.

MR. DE VALERA AND EMPIRE.

LONDON, July 16

The "Daily Telegraph’s” diarist interprets Mr. De Valera’s warm welcome to Mr. Nash, and Mr. McEntee’s complimentary references to New Zealand, as indicating that Mr. De Valera is 'becoming more Empire-minded, which his readiness 1 to appoint Commissioners in the Dominions, besides Canada, corroborates.

YACHT CROSSES ATLANTIC.

LONDON, July 16.

After navigating a seven-ton cutterrigged yacht, with only a compass, from New York in 33 days, Francis Clark, 55, seaman, of Portsmouth, has arrived at Newlyn, Cornwall. Clark left Portsmouth in the same yacht, in 1937, and reached Savannah, thence going to New York, living on rain water and dried beans. He sold his chronometer, and bought food, lie sailed for England' on June 12, his best run being 360 miles’ in 48 hours.