NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 November 1924, Page 6

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

PNEUAIONIC PRAGUE. , LOS ANGELES, Nov. 9. The total number of deaths from , pneumonic plague has reached 30. ] MONEY NO USE, ’ DEATH OF JOURNALIST. | LONDON, Nov. 10. ‘ An Anglo-Australian journalist, James Hogan, aged 60, who represent- j ed Tipperary in the House of Com- ( mons fromi l§9p to’l9ooj met a lonely ( death in a mean room in St. Pan eras, , although he had ample funds in a , bank. DIVORCE CO;URT SCENE. WIFE BURSTS INTO TEARS. LONDON, Nov. 11. A poignant scene was witnessed in the Clourt to-day. A wife was denying allegations of unfaithfulness that had been made against her, when the gun in Hyde Park proclaimed the beginning of the, Armistice Day silence. Unable to bear the strain, the witness-burst out sobbing. Her mother also collapsed, and was attended by the doctor who figured in the case as the co-respondent. STIFLED PRESS. CENSORSHIP IN’ SPAIN. LONDON, Nov., 10. Spain is still under rigid press censorship. . Repently, says the Times correspondent alt Madrid, the newspaper interests all oyer Spain collectively petitioned the Directory to abolish censorship. “A free press is an indispensable- instniment to a modern nation,” said the petitioners, who declared that the press of Spain w?us dying of asphyxiation. The Directory has now replied that the censorship most be maihtained, otherwise it will he, impossible for it to fulfil its engagements to the nation. ’VARSITY SKY-SCRAPER. EIFTY-TWPi STOREYS. PITTSBURGH, -Nov. 7. A 52-,storey building to cost £2,000,OQO will he erected as the new home of the University of Pittsburg. The buiiAing, described as a “Cathedral of Learning,” will accommodate 12,000 students, and will house all departments. Mr Bowman, the chancellor, gays the decision to establish the sky-scraper university is the result of three years’ consideration. CENOTAPH PILGRIMAGE. 25,000,000 POPPIES SOLD. LONDON, Nov. 11. Mourners of all classes, in commemoration Cf Armistice Diay, filed past the Cenotaph, four, abreast, all day long to-day, 1 the procession continuing despite heavy rain nearly till midnight.Y Many laid, flowers on'the monument. Earl Haig' s popies, of which2s,ooo,ooo. were distributed throughout the country , were/, spld ouh thig, surpajsjsipg the record in 1923', wfc&fli £259,000 w4§ collected! " MACHINE-GUN DEAL A SMTJGCUNG CONTRACT. . LONDON, Nov. 9. It is stated by the People newspaper that four Englishmen are searching for a Riff agent who, purporting to be operating from the Carlton Hotel, induced them to smuggle out 157 mach-ine-guns, which they bought at a sale held by the Disposal Board, giving an undertaking that they would be scraps ped. The guns were packed , into piano cases and loaded on motor launches in Cornwall. - The l Englishmen were promised £7500 for the job, but. the launches departed secretly in the nighttime without leaving any money. MAGIC GOLF BALL, v “DRIVES OF 600 YARDS.” LONDON, Nov. 11. Does anybody know the, truth of the wonderful’ golf ball haunting ‘ courses all over England, causing long handicap men to imagine vain things? It is asserted that the magic ball can easily be driven 600 yards/ that it is groved like' a shelLband, and that it whistles in its flight. The inventor, an Aniiercan, made' a dozen of them’ but lie was heavily bribed by golfing interests to carry his secret- to tlie grave. Some of the originals were smuggled into England, where they fell into the hands of a wealthy amateur. : Using this bail, he won a, bet by driving to the green at a par five hole. '