NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 November 1924, Page 5

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

IRISH HOME FOR PRINCESS. • LONDON, Oct. 28. Viscount Lascelles is rebuilding the ancient castle of Clan Ricardes, Portimina, Galway, in response to Princess Mary’s desire for ,an Irish home. He will establish an Irish racing stud. NEW NOSE FOR DEMPSEY. PARIS, Sept. 11. Jack Dempsey’s next ring opponent will have a chance to test the new nose the champion is having made to meet him requirements and make his nose more like Valentino’s. Dempsey yesterday permitted surgeons at Los Angeles to take a piece of his left ear and graft it on his nose. It will/be a week before the bandages are removed and the new nose unveiled. BACHELOR DIES AT 112. LONDON, Sept. 11. Mr. John Campbell, of Killead, County Antrim, has died at the age of 112. He was a bachelor. “I would not marry a present-day girl,” he once remarked. “They think of nothing but dress, and, although nice looking, they are afraid to soil their hands with work.” DEATH INTERVENED. CABINET MINISTER’S DIFFERENCES.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. Henry Cantwell Wallace, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, is dead. About the time that he was taken ill it was reported that he had differences with President Coolidge which would probably result in his resignation. However, illness, and finally death, intervened. CANADA’S DOLLAR. OTTAWA, Sept. 11. The Canadian dollar is quoted in New York at a premium of 1-32 of 1 per cent, and is thus the .highest currency in the world. The premium is due to the recent heavy flotations of Canadian bonds on the New York market, the flow of American capital to Canada for investment, and the betterment of the trade balance situation. A MILLIONAIRE’S WIDOW. ONLY £2OO A YEAR IF SHE REMARRIES. LONDON, Sept. 11. A provision that his widow should receive only an anmiity of £2OO in the event of her remarriage appears in the will of Colonel William Winterbottom, of Derbv. who left £1,069,964. Mrs Winterbottom will receive the income of the estate so long as she remains single, after certain family legacies have been paid.