NEWS BY MAIL.

Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9798, 7 May 1924, Page 5

NEWS BY MAIL.

MOTHER DIES IN SON'S ARMS. AND THEN THE SON. Airs Miller, widow of a former alderman of Southampton, and her son have been buried together at- Southampton. Airs Miller died last week in her son’s arms and the son almost immediately afterwards had a fatal heart seizure.

DUKE IN KITCHEN. “I was fortunate in marrying a man who prided himself on his culinary skill.” said the Duchess of Athcl. ALP.. when opening an exhibition at the National School of Cookery. London, a few weeks ago. “If I was alone in the kitchen he never left me in the lurch.” she added. The duchess expressed regret at- her own lack of training in domestic matters.

WEDDING HOAX. BOGUS ORDERS FOR CARRIAGES AND PROVISIONS. A number of Dover tradesmen have been victims of the bogus-order hoax. At one residence in G-uildford-lawn a number of lorries, each with a ton <sf coal, which the occupant- had not ordered, arrived from different- coal merchants; three separate sets of wedding carriages—three on each occasion—arrived within an hour, and carters turned up with large supplies of provisions. A NOTABLE OLD PALACE. The old palace at Hatfield, once the prison home of Queen Elizabeth as Princess Elizabeth, which is to be the scene next month of an old-time Masque in aid of the Herts Nursing Association, became the stables of the neweir mansion. The palace ot Hatfield. the favourite residence of the hoy King Edward A 1., was old when the Tudors extended and beautified it. and though it has been used as stabling, the great- hall is to-day much as it was when James 1. exchanged Hatfield for . Theobalds. He made this exchange with his Minister. Sir Robert Cecil (created Earl of Salisbury and direct ancestor of the present Marquis), wlio built- the present glorious home of the Cecils. Hatfield "is notable among Elizabethan houses for the spacious comfort of its bedrooms.

23 BURNED TO DEATH

14.000,000 MATCHES ABLAZE.

An explosion in t-lie cliemic&l department* destroyed an import-ant match factory at Ror.co Canavese. a small town hoar Turin, says our Milan correspondent. The whole building burst, into huge flames and blew ua Twenty-three persons, inchulinb *5 girls, were buried underneath the debris and burned to death. Many people were injured. Fourteen million matches were destroyed. FORTUNES FROM DREAMS. The experience of Mr Russell Thorndike, the actor wlm has been led by a dream to the discovery cf valuable old carvings, is not- unique, writes “Flaneur” in the Daily Dispatch. * Nearly twenty years ago a farmer at Holyhead dreamed that he saw money which had been by his father in a wall of his cowshed. A search revealed a secret heard ot nearly £lO. • More remarkable was the case or John O’Conne-1 who, while in hospital in Australia, dreamed that he had found gold on a certain spot. Subsequentlv he went in search of the place, and found a gold-bearing reef which made' him a fortune. The “Coquette” oil well, one of the richest in Pennsylvania, was discovered as a result of a dream. This well yielded 2000 barrels a day.