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Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1930, Page 7

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.... \ • ALMIGHTY DOLLAR. • i ' * ' NO MANX CATS ON ISLE OF MAN. ' • .i - = ■ - ' • LONDON, September 19. Although special prizes were offered i by thiv Miinit Board of Agriculture, in the hope'of inducing the islanders to blefed tailless cats, the Isle of Man’s aitinual cat show produced only one Manx cat.. The islanders attribute the decline to Americans buying the best stock for transport to America. ; pan-cocktail. 140 INGREDIENTS. LONDON, September 19. Cocktails compounded of recipes from Australia, Africa, Belgium, Switzerland, Egypt, Spain and Germany are competing' in the first international cocktail-shaking competition in the [West End. | The competing drinks will be coneOcted from 140 ingredients, including green tea, honey, purple grapes, and flowers of clove, and will be judged by a panel of six, of whom half are woman. ' • .'/.■/ , TWO “CERTS.” MINERS BACK PEER’S TIPS. '? LONDQN, September .19. . Lord Harcwood te/ a, most popular man in the colliery village ; of Rossington, near Doncaster.'; I'm /Lis ; speech at the ..opening of the club premises of tpeiliritish Legion %n- Monday Lord Harwdqd'tpld the minersg' back Singapdre' in' the St.'-Leger/' and alsohis ciwn horse//Alee ster, Soil the first day •''' Coining from’ shell higlk-authority the miners most confidently . accepted the advice, Both won, Alcesflr geturnipg 100 td 8, , and’ Singapore i to 1. .. Three thousand i/mineras cleared at ledst £SOOO. Lord Harewood a, telegram ofthafiks: and. held a celebration concert. at which they sang Lord : Harewood is a jolly good fellow. " . / •' '"te, ~ “ ; ■ * DEATH PLUNGE. V j — f; . SUICIDE FROM. ST. PETERS.' •/> _ .... i- VATICAN CITY, September 19. The flrat suicide committed in St. ,in Hid history of the Church occurred when Marcello Mitrati throw

himself from a high window. A keeper saw iiin^v,setting on the edge of the window sill and asked him what he was doing. Mitrati replied: “I am going now,” and jumped over. His body struck many buttresses before landing, and was terribly mangled. , ARCTIC SECRETS. .STRANGE COINCIDENCE. OSLO, September 19. Dr, Stubbendorf, who lias returned from White Island, where the remains of members of the Andree expedition of 30 years ago were found, said that the maps left by Strindberg showed that the party had been marooned in exactly the same spot as the Nobile expedition in 1928, when two of those left on the ice when the airship crashed died in tragic circumstances and the leader was' dramatically rescued by aeroplane. The most tragic relic was a letter form Strindberg’s younger brother, Tore, which was marked, ‘Not to be opened before September 4.” It was opened on that date, when the party were wandering hopelessly over the ice. Tore Strindberg is at present a member of a scientific expedition at Tromso.

RADIO GHOSTS. STRANGE BOARD MEETINGS, LONDON, September 19. An Australian representative, sitting a Sydney office discussing business’, policy frith a board meeting of Rootes* !Limited, motor exporters, is .tlie.idatest wireless telephone advance. directors, with earphones, sat at affable while the chairman turned on" .«(/ "switch connecting the meeting Sydney manager, who participated i° "the discussions as if actually present. . - Thd/Post Office states that other .London offices propose to install similar .equipment. J. J: 4 WOULD-BE SLEUTH. GIRL SEEKS THRILLS. : . LONDON, September 19. .“1 have been thinking of my career, and I ,have made up my mind .to have one/ because it is far too tame to marry and rear a /‘family, which,, judging by previous generations, will probably be large,” writes an 11-year-old Toowoomba girl nicknamed “Dicky” to her aunt, Miss Mitchell, of London.

“Dicky” continues that she made out a list of positions open to women — chemist, stenographer, doctor, lawyer, avlatrix, nurse, teacher —but crossed out the lot because it is too stale sitting at a chemist’s counter selling powder, creams and medicines, because a stenographer only sits down and adds up figures, and because a lady doctor does not make a living (people always go to men, and similarly with lawyers, people thinking women have not any sense) ; an aviatrix would be thrilling, but mother would be worrying all the time. “I have not sufficient patience for a teacher, and would be throwing books at the children, while a nurse does not make money. What realty appeals to me is a lady detective. They hnvn’t any in Australia, where they leave the most thrilling jobs to men, so I am writing to England to see if there are any there. Miss Mitchell sent the letter to the “Star,” which invited i.'\s readers to advise “Dicky” with suggestions for thrilling careers for ambitious girls, but the queries stnmpted the correspondents, for no letters were received. Inquiries show that lady sleuths in England are practically limited to employees of the big stores, who prevent shoplifting and similar activities, NEW WAR STORY. PEASANT WOMAN’S ACT. PARIS, September 19. Most astonishing exploits of the war were. commemorated by the unveiling of a monument' in the forest near Gournnyon-Bray, in memory of the Batie of Rougemare. After the battle of the Marne tlie Germans dispatched motor lorries of sappers to blow up the bridges on the lower Seine, to prevent the advance of French reserves, A peasant woman, now 73 years of age, discovered the camouflaged lorries in the forest and hurried off to warn the gendarmerie, a handful to which, armed with antiquated weapons and assisted by the local schoolmaster and peasants armed with pitchforks, hurried to the spot. They attacked the Germans, who heat them off, killing a sergeant, two gendarmerie' and a young man who had driven tliem/in. his .motor car. The Germans drove off later, and, being mistaken for British, evaded capture;, and reached the important bridges. However, the alarm raised by the. peasant woman was effective and one lorry load of Germans, which was. surrounded, surrendered. The others were captured.in a beet field eating the roots, owing to their extreme hunger. THE LADY’S PRIVILEGE. CHANGE OF NATIONALITY. GENEVA, September 19. Mrs Ken Street, representing women’s associations in New South Wales, is at Geneva, co-operating in an effort to secure from the committee which is codifying international law recognition of equal nationality rights for women. It is desired that a woman who marries another national shall have the option of retaining her own nationality op adopting her husband’s