NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 November 1924, Page 7

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

VICTORIAN AND NAVAL OFFICER

NEW YORK, Oct. 18. After arriving from England with her ,two children, Airs Phyllis Fellows Colmore was married here to Lieut.Commander Hugh Duncan Grant, superintendent in the British Admiralty meteorological service.. He arrived a month ago. She is a native of Victoria, Australia, and a daughter of Captain Peregrine Fellows. She married Mr George Colmore in London 11 years ago, but was divorced in England in 1922. The Grants will return to England. THE “43” CLUB.. LONDON NIGHT RAID. HILARITY IN STREET. LONDON, Oct. 19. The biggest night club raid of recent years was carried out early this morning, when a large squad of police < descended upon the well-known “43” Club, in the West End, and arrested 48 men and women. Four “Black Marias” conveyed them to Vine Street police station. There was unrestrained hilarity as the prisoners, practically all of whom were in evening dress, filed into the street and were packed into the police vans, which moved off amid a chorus of cheering and hursts of song.

A BANKRUPT BOXER

THE “KID’S” FINANCIAL K.O. LONDON, Oct. 21. Ted “Kid” Lewis, the famous English middle and welter weight boxer, appeared in the Bankruptcy Court today, when it was stated that his liabilities were £3233, and his assets £I2OO. . „ Lewis admitted that his income for three years was £16,950, and His expenditure £IO,OOO. He said he “put liis foot into it” in everything he touched, whether it was as a boxing promoter, a publichouse proprietor, or in revue, horse-racing, or cards. He lost £IOOO when the negotiations for a tour of Australia failed in March, and lost £SOO on a single horse race. GOULD SUES BROTHER: FOR 50,000,000 DOLLARS. GREED AND POWER . . , . . NEW YORK, Oct. 4. Charging that brothers Edwin Gould and the late George Jay, Gould conspired to invest their father’s 83,000,000 dollar estate in railroads which they controlled. Frank J. Gould opened his fight to-day to recover 50,000,000 dollars of the estate. Frank alleges that the estate decreased that much in value through his brothers’ mismanagement. Walter B. Walker, his attorney, told Referee James A. O’Gorman that the brothers played a game in which greed of power and greed of ambitmn were the determining factors in their effort to become dominant figures among railroad magnates. FIFTH ATTEMPT FATAL.

ADELAIDE, Oct. 26

William Bigbv, whose fifth attempt at .prison, breaking ended fatally last night, when he was shot dead at'Port Lincoln by Constable Hilton, was perhaps the most elusive prisoner the South Australian gaol authorities had to handle.

HIS CHILDREN’S CHILDREN. LONDON, Oct. 26. The newspapers publish photographs of Mr. J. O’Gradv (the Labour M.P. who has been appointed Governor of Tasmania), his children, and grandchildren, and of Government House, Hobart. The paperg remark: “Mr. O’Grady will he compelled, as formerly, to travel by tramcar in the course of his duties.

BANDITS’ HAUL,

CHICAGO, Sent. 27

TVo banrlits held up the West Ci + v Trust and Savings Bank on the northwest side about noon on Fridav and i escaped with about £4OO, according to 1 bank officials. > i Only three employees were in the bank when the two robbers entered i wH,h drawn revolvers. They scooped ] what currency was in sight and escaped . 1 ■ROYAL TOMBS TO BE ERECTED. 1 CHICAGO. Sent. 29. Two royal tombs from the Valley of the Kings will be erected in the Field Museum of Natural History, it is announced here. Each tomb will contain several rooms and in the burial crypt the genuine mummy of a king and queen will be placed in a sarcophagus. The tombs weigh ninety tons each, the heavy granite walls having been brought lie re from Egypt. THREAT TO LABOUR MEMBERS. BRISBANE, Oct., 23. A threat to tar and feather the ®tn>e member for Maryborough (Mr. D. Weir), who is also an alderman of the town, was made to him over the telephone. The affair had to do with the proposal of the City Council, of which there is a Labour maiovity, to remove war trophies from the front of the Town Hall. , The returned soldiers are most active in their attempt to frustrate the move,- though at a meeting last night they repudiated the threat made to Mr. Weir. CONVICT DIES WITH VOW UNBROKEN. STOCKTON. Ca., Sept. 27. “Silent Charlie” Call-son is dead and his oath, never to speak another word, which he made five-years ago, is unbroken. Carson was sentenced to the penitentiary for the killing of an Oakland policeman, and as he stood on the threshold of the prison took his oath. Later he was committed to the insane ward at the Stockton state hospital. Carson was reading a newspaper when he was seen to stand up suddenly, open his month as if to speak, and then drop dead from heart failure. RAILWAY CRASH. MELBOURNE. Oct. 18. Through the breaks of a train from Maryborough not acting its engine crashed into the guard’s van,of another train standing at the Castlemaine platform. The latter was a special train conveying pupils of the Bendigo School of Mines The force of the impact threw several of the passengers from their seats and hurled them against the sides of the compartments. Mr. B. Perry, master at the Bendigo School of Mines, was rendered unconscious, and was taken

to the hospital, suffering with concussion of the brain. Mr.. W. .H. Walter, registrar of the Bendigo School of Mines, and several scholars were treated at the hospital for severe bruises and shock. CAR SOMERSAULTS. GOULBURN, Oct. 25. A fatal motor accident took place near Goulburn last night. Mr. J. T. Spiers, aged 50, a pastrycook, was proceeding to Goulburn from Chatsbury, accompanied by Mr. Charles Tinham, when the car he was driving' overturned. The accident occurred near Tarlo Gap. The car somersaulted, and Mr. Spiers, who was ginned underneath, received severe injuries to the skull and body, and was killed instantly.

Mr. Tinham was thrown clear, and escaped with a shaking. Messrs Heazlett and Kennedy were driving into Goulburn from Taralga, about "7 o’clock, when, they noticed the car on the roadside. Tinham was sitting near the car in a dazed Condition. Spier’s body was underneath the motor, which was considerably damaged. Mr! Spiers leaves a widow and one son.

WEDDING GUESTS

FAINT WHEN STAIRWAY FALLS

MONTREAL, Oct. 3. “Now don’t budge,” warned a photographer, who was snapping a Wedding group of forty persons outside 730 Delormier Avenue this morning. The guests obeyed, but the staircase did not, and the group was precipitated to the ground. Nobody was injured, but several women fainted. The bride was Miss Gabrielle Lamarre and the groom Jean Labrecque.

WORLD IN PERIL,

ANOTHER WAR

TORONTO, Oct. 4. “The duty of being on service for one’s country in peace as well as in war” was the theme of the address delivered by Sir Robert Borden. Sir Robert said that never in the history of mankind has civilisation stood in greater peril of the possibility of another war than now. The only way .that the peace of the world ooukl be maintained, he said, was that public opinion would maintain public rights agjainist the arbitraments of force.

THRICE LEFT FOR DEAD

SOLDIER’& SAD CAREER

SUICIDE BY POISON

LONDON, Oct. 18

A former Australian soldier named Harold Thorne, aged 42, committed suicide in Dorsetshire by taking poison. Three times he was left for dead on the battlefield in France, .and later contracted lookjaw, following an injury to his foot. He had settled in England. He was an inveterate cigarette smoker, and was depressed when he was without tobacco. His grandmother died recently in Australia, leaving 95 descendants.

ACCIDENT TOLL

LOUISVILLE (Ky.), Oct. 2

Eighty-four thousand lives were lost in the United States last year as the result of accidents. The death toll amounted to 1462 per week, or 209 a, day. Automobile accidents headed the list with 37 a day. Falls killed 36 a day, drownings 19 and railroad accidents 18.

ANCIENT CITY UNCOVERED. TRIPOLI (African Italy), Oct. 2. More marvellous arid artistic treasures of the ancient Roman Empire are being brought to light by excavations made at Homs (Leptis Magna), Tripolitania, by Professor Bartocoini, the young archaeologist, who, under, the encouragement of Count Volpi, Governor of Tripolitania, has discovered an entire buried, city containing finds of incalculable value. WHALE CUT IN TWO. LONDON, Sept. 18. The this morning ran into a school of whales frolicking in the calm, blue sea. The ship bit one moi*e than 30ft long. The impact shook the great 52.000ton liner so that seamen in the fo’c’sle ran on deck to see what bad happened. The whale’s great bulk stuck to the how until it fell away in two parts. For a time it endangered the propellers. . WATER TURBINES FOR NEW ZEALAND. LONDON, Sept. 18. Vickers Limited hydro-electro department have received an order from the Government of New Zealand for two large water turbines, each with an output of 12,650 horse-power. These will be installed at Lake Coleridge in the South Island, and will provide power for Christchurch, Ashburton, Timaru and district. The turbines will he constructed at Barrow-in-Furness. SLEPT ON LINE.

Staggering into the railway signal cabin near Port Curtis Junction, Queensland, at an early hour one day last week, Peter Peerros told a signalman that he went to sleep on the line and was awakened by being dragged along by a passing train. Perros was badly bruised. Jammed in the cowcatcher of the train which caught him was found an old felt hat belonging to Perros.

SHIPWRECKED CREW’S FAREWELL. NAGASAKI, Sept. 22. A grim message of farewell from the Japanese cargo steamer Matsuyama tylani, which foundered and went down with 57 men on July 11, has been picked up off Kyushu. A lifeboat, almost the only trace of the ill-fated vessel picked up by searching ships, has been found, hearing the words, “The Matsuyama Maru has gone to her death.” There was only one survivor of the wreck, a stoker, who was picked up off a raft after eight days with no food and little water. SIX DAYS ON RAFT. NEW YORK, Sept. 11. The liner Southern Cross has landed six survivors of the schooner Samuel W. Hathaway, who were rescued from a raft in mid-ocean after six days’ exposure. The men were rescued 359 miles east of Cape Hatteras. Their vessel, which was bound for Porto Rico, was destroyed by the hurricane which struck the Arabic and Homeric. The captain and several of the crew were drowned.

WAR WEAPONS

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 22. Major-General Williams, the Chief of the Army Ordnance Department,

addressing the Franklin Institute at the Centenary celebrations, 'described some new. and improved war weapons, viz., high-speed tanks with guns turreted; a . new and accurate trench mortar; .a 75 mm. field gun with \ a range of ;15,000 yards; a .50 calibre machine-gun; a semi-automatic rifle; anti-aircraft guns capable of destroying any number of planes, with a horizontal range of 17,000 yards; an increase of one-quarter in the range of types of gun; and increased weight of projectiles. He emphatically denied that aircraft was eliminating warships.