MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1927, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) RIGHTS OF A PRINCESS. BERLIN, Oct. 29. Princess Victoria, in a statement to the Berlin press, said: “As Princess, I demand the right to make a confidant of a man I esteem highly. We both know we shall be happy, no matter what he is. I have respect for true labour because 1 am a Princess. 1 do not ask the public to pity me as a weak woman. I ask to be treated with the same respect accorded others, regardless of rank.”

CONSTANTINOPLE RIOTS. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 29. There were food riots this evening when people rushed shops, and found there was a shortage of bread. A QUEER CENSUS. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 29. The town is experiencing a strange method of taking a census. All shops arc closed and everybody is ordered to stay indoors while 6,500 officials are calling from house to house, supervised by others who arc madly careering in motor cars in deserted streets at 50 to 60 miies per hour.

FRANCE PROTESTS. PARIS, Oct. 29

France has decided to send a protest to the Internationa] Olympic Council meeting at Lausanne, against tlie Executive’s broken time decision.

LENGTH OF LIFE. LONDON. Oct. 28.

“ There is a common belief that first class athletes die young, but at least as regards cricket this is untrue,” writes Dr Bradford-11ill, of the Institute of Medical Research, in the Lancet. “ Only 4 per cent die before 35, whereas the normal death rate of ordinary men before 35 is nearly 9 per cent. The cricketer is likely to live much longer than the golfer, and an amateur first-class cricketer slightly longer than a professional.” FUNF.RA L OBSEQUIES. LONDON, Oct. 29. Their Majesties and the entire Royal Family attended the interment of the Marquis of Cambridge at Windsor. Life Guards bore the coffin to tlie chapel and behind them walked the Duke of Cambridge’s Butler, Fleming, bearing the Marqjuis’s orders on a purple cushion. As the coffin was Towered into the crypt, the Earl of Eltliain. Cambridge’s heir, dropped earth thereon. The Queen wept liehind a heavy black veil and appeared to bo distressed throughout the service. Crabbe represented the New Zealand Government at the Marquis of Cambridge’s funeral.