NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 January 1925, Page 7

NEWS IN BRIEF.

EMPIRE EXHIBITION.

LONDON, Jan. 16

Sir James' Allen, on behalf of the High Commissioners who' are negotiating with the Board of Exhibition, states that the Empire Exhibition authorities will allow the Dominions the right to sell bottles of liquor and conduct their own A scheme is likely to he adopted whereby a monetary grant will he made to each llominion.

A SENSATIONAL STORY. LONDON, Jan. 16. Eva Bragg, a cook at Hyde Park Alansion, was found on January 8 bound, gagged and injured, with the bedding on fire. She told a sensational story of a thief’s violent assault. To-day. Robert Oulagi, aged 18, a furrier, was remanded at Marylebone Court for a week on charges of attempted murder, arson and housebreaking. The police, in their evidence, stated that Oulagi admitted the escapade, and said he was anxious to clear his conscience. Electric torches, a hammerhead, and newspaper cuttings of murder cases were found in his bednoom. N.Z. NAVAL RATINGS. LONDON, Jan. 16. Sir James Allen inspected sjhe New Zealand naval ratings on the training ship Philomel, at Portsmouth, and found all enthusiastic and contented. DEMPSEY MAY RETIRE. VANCOUVER, Jan. 17. Unless Jack Dempsey, the world’s heavyweight boxing champion, has a fight arranged before he marries Estelle Taylor, the film actress, of Los Angeles, probably in May or June, he is ‘‘through with the- ring.” He admits that wedding bells and the prize ring gong “don’t harmonise.” Tommy Gibbons, the light-heavv-weight champion, will claim the world’s heavyweight championship if Dempsey retires. AVOMAN’S DEATH VOW. LONDON. Jan. 16. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Express states that Mademoiselle Poesy, aged 50, who vowed that she would never eat again in consequence of her lover abandoning her a few days before their arranged wedding, died of starvation at Nantes. Her lover, Georges Duhaut. stayed with Mademoiselle Poesy’s sister and brother-in-law. but disappeared with a quantitv of motiev and clothing, ■ after which Mademoiselle Poesy refused all food for three weeks. She was then removed to a bospitaj in a dying condition. and died exactly a month after taking her vow. • FAMOUS PICTURES SOLD. / LONDON. Jan. 16. Earl Soencer, interviewed by the Daily Express regarding the sale in America of six of his most famous pictures, including Goldsboroughs and Reynolds, said the purchase price mentioned from New York viz., £300,000. was incorrect. AAliatever sum was paid (which was his private business') would go towards paying death duties.