NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1930, Page 6

NEWS AND NOTES.

DAUBY MEETS JOAN. A widow of 80 years and a, widoiVer of 88 who where friends in ' childhood met casually when crossing the Atlantic last summer for a final visit to tliei'r native town of Varde, in Jutland. They' were married in Chicago, INVASION OF THE FEMALE. A threat that woman’s' feet will for the first, time in 1000 years', tread its sacred groves hangs over Holy Mount Atlios in Greece, famous 1 as the Monks’ Republic. The Greek’ 'Government's intention to • com fiseate the property of deiserted monaih teries has directed attention to this .;]i.-ange ciommunitv— es'taihlished by ■’ Constantine the Great. NEW USE FOR AOROPO I.TS. " • Wishing to put an end to his life, a retired captain of the Greek army flung himself from the cliff of the famous Acropolis of Athens, on which the Parthenon stands. Hurling from a height of some 400 feet, he crashed through the roof of a little cottage occupied by an old woman. While the officer was, of course, killed, the woman cottager was seriously injured. BEER FOR, SCHOLARS. 'An Eating, schoolmaster applied for permission for beer to lie sold to' students at his school.' He is the princioal of a German school. He explained ‘Hnt his object was to keep his students out of public houses. “ Germans, you know,” lie said, “ are a beer-' •'Hnking \ra',ce.” The magistrate’s 'clerk , told him that he would have to form a club and then apply for registration VALENTTNO’S £160,000

Mr I’ll mail, executor of the £160,000 estate of Mr Rudolp Valentino, thefamous screen “ lover,”'submitted to the court for approval accounts nivmting: to £II,OOO. These in-' "Hided £4400 to Miss Maria Strada GuglieHni, the sister of the film star, —d £IO,OOO to Mr Alberto 'Gugielmi, Vpthetrv Mr Valentino’s attorney Has been:, paid £3OOO aiicl'£36o tyas dis,-. • scd as “ tips to the police,” "for flieiv services, at the actor’s, funeral ' r - Ifilman’s salary,; £IO,OOO is set' 'own. : ‘ ... ■" " "• ' ." , " ' i ' SEALED BOX MYSTERY. • ; A Toannn-Pouthcbtt sea'ed box mvstcry on' a small* scale recently arose at ’runswick Congregational Chapel, ''"c+o l . Following a 1 reben f forcible "ntry into the chapela thorough sen roll was made of the premises. Inside a • fc‘ was discovered \n hfeavily scaled ’"'vl-box with a label instructing that the box was not to he opened until +h", ’■VHh anniversary of the chapel. This four years off. Until then tin* box will remain in the treasurer’s safe. HOTEL -MYSTERY. The finger prints of a man found gassed at the Vancouver Hotel, 'Prince's Square, Bayswatcr, werfe taken in the hope of establishing bis identity. '.lt. 'was stated at the inquest at Paddington that t]ie man signed the register as C. R. Waller, of Nottingham, but no relatives 1 could be found, nor were there any papers to aid in identification. A police surgeon said that in' addition to blocking tile door and keyhole of the hotel room with adhesive tape, Waller had placed some round his nose. The coroner returned a. verdict of suicide, and ordered the signature “C. R. Waller;” in the hotel register to be photographed. GIRL BANNED'FROM HOME BY MISTAKE. Impersonation by another girl led to Nellie Alice Elsie Oliver appearing on an attempted suicide charge at North London Police Miss Oliver, who fe 24' years of age, had been in service at an hotel at Shank-' lin. Isle of Wight. Her parents at Portsmouth received a letter, from a woman visitor to the hotel stating that the■ gii‘l owed her £lO and had taken tilings away. The parents, said Detective-Sergeant Kimpiins, believed the story and would not have their daughter in their house. Tile daughter. it was alleged, later took poison; at Laura Place, Hackney.' The man who wrote the letter ' Vat in court. •It was found that another girl had impersonated. Miss Oliver. Miss Oliver was innodent of.any offence. Binding the girl over for a year,- the magistrate asked the noman missionary to go with her to the parents at Portsmouth.