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Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1931, Page 2

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“PILGRIM’S PROGRESS.” TRANSLATION FOR PAPUA. LONDON, July 3. In response to a request from New Guinea, the Religious Tract Society ha 3 published Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress” in Tube Tube, a Papuan dialect —the 123rd language into which the classic has been translated. ART TREASURES. £1,000,000 IN' SIX WEEKS. LONDON, July 3. Mr Charles Sessler, an American art collector, 80 years of age, who arrived in London six weeks ago “with £1,000,(XX) to buy art treasures,” sailed in the liner .Leviathan for New York with 7sd in his pocket. • $ ; “The United States possesses more British treasures than Britain,” said Mr Sessler. . The “Evening News” says that Mr Sessler’s claim is ridiculous. Twothirds of the so-called treasures taken to Amreica in the last 25 years are valueless, except for the amount paid for them. The Bodleian Library alone possesses more historical antiquities than the whole of America. Mr Sessler’s £1)000,000 is at present more useful than manuscripts.

FELL 16 'FLOORS, . FAMOUS DANCER’S END. ,-v ... : CHICAGO, July 3. , Andreas Pavley, th© famous classic dancer, plunged to death from the l6t-h floor of the McCormack. Hotel. A former associate of Pavlova and internationally known,_ Pavley led the ballet of the Chicago Civic Opera for several years. The body, clad in. pyjamas, struck the cement paving of an alley, narrowly missing the. hotel clerk, , She used a portable radio set to smash the glass of a window before leaping; BRED FOR SLAVERY. CHILDREN OF AFRICA. •'• GENEVA, July 3. . In one part of Africa, children are being produced especially for the slave, trade, and sold for arms and ammunition, declared Mr John Harris/ representing. the. Anti-Slavery Society, at' ' tbe international Conference on African Children. Mr Harris added that ehildred were only raw material in Africa, and were appreciating' in price to-day, FOB BA2OB BLADES, 7 END OF OLD BATTLESHIP. LONDON, July 3. The ; scrapped 7 British, Battleship Emperior of India will be broken up,' and her steel used . for the manufacture of safety razor blades, household utensils, and lawn-mowers. NEW CRIME WAVE.

MUCH VIOLENCE IN SPAIN. "LONDON, July 3. A strange and widespread .reappear-., lance of, primitive ferocity, marked "the •' Spanish elections, ", says the Madrid; correspondent of “The Times,” The Mayor of Quel was murdered by two fanatical Catholics, ; who resented his. forbidding the night watchman to preface his call with an invocation to the [Virgin Mary. .• A member of the Civil Guard at Esjfcrnmandura was slaughtered after 40 wounds had been inflicted on him. Two lorry dirivers (at Santa Olalla were | lynched. The son of a marquis was murdered at Orbuela by 20 villagers, | led by the Mayor, because the marquiß . had. prohibited syndicalists from working his [quarry.; ■. i'.\. A woman was killed with a pair of scissors at Lalagoa by a mother who , thought the Victim had bewitched her i ’daughter. A quarrel between gangs of J gipsies at Vittoria over a donkey, race resulted in four being killed and 14 .wounded. . . 1 1

The heat of electoral propaganda does not account for these crimes- but their influences relaxes civic discipliile, Police and civil guards still stand sentinel over Madrid religious establishments. General San Jour jo went by aeroplane to Andalusia to maintain order, owing to numerous strikes, i

INFANT MORTALITY. INTEREST OF THE QUEEN. LONDON, July 3. The Queen, in a message to the National Baby Week Council on the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary, pays tribute to its splendid educational work ancl adds that the gratifying decrease of infant mortality is ascribable to the effective awakening of public opinion. .- “I am interested toxibserve that the council is stressing the .welfare of the child from one to- five years of age, and also the demands for a national maternity scheme,” states the Queen. Mombasa last year • won the Baby Week Challenge Shield, despite the peculiar local conditions.; Babies in the .first week after birth are fed in MomJj{i e a oil rice gnj porridge ■ thereafter,

for 40 days, as. an addition to the milk in the porridge, there is mixed sweet tembo, an alcoholic drink made from coconuts, while complaints are treated by witchcraft, including branding the chest and back with, a red-hot iron.

It is pointed out that only native babies attending the welfare centres afe eligible to compete for the . shield. Sydney Baby Week was awarded a certificate of merit.

BRIGHTER CHURCHES. HULL VICAR’S LEAD. LONDON, July 4. Declaring that, the Church had too long been content with bad. music and ! stodgy, gloomy colouring, giving young people an idea that religion was some- I tiling fusty and dull, the vicar of ' St. John’s Newington, near Hull, decided to renovate his church. Previously it was decorated in accordance‘with strictest Victorian ideas, but the church will open next Sunday with applegreen pews, black choir stalls, orange carpets, a floodlighted chancel blazing in vermilion, gold, and white, pillars painted, grey, arches, ceilings, and nave in white with green. rafters matching the pews. “The Church should proclaim ' something of the joy of worship,” said the vicar, “and I hope that St. John’s will give a world-wide lead.” BETRAYED TRUST. .. • DICKENS PAPERS STOLEN. ’ i LONDON, July 3. J. pL. W. Bostock, a free lance journalist, was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for theft of the Dickens letters. Bostock secured the confidence of the officials at the Dickens Trust 'House, Bloomsbury, and was- given access to the most valuable books. He tore out paintings and letters from a special edition of Forster’s “Life of Dickens.” During visits, extending over 18 mdnths altogether, be stole 40 irreplaceable articles, 15 of which he sent to America. Dealers are returning 12, and, it is hoped to secure the others. A recent, inventory at Dickens Trust House sEowed that 52 very valuable documents had been stolen. These included the original preface to “Dombev and Son,” ‘and-letters; written bv Dickens to Queen "Victoria', Gladstone, Thackeray, Disraeli, and-others. GIRL CRICKETERS. JUST AS GOOD. AS THE MEN! ■* London, July 3. • Which is the harder sex? The quest' :tie»n is now being fought out in the crlekefc : world. . Major Troup, formei ■Gloucestershire cuptftin, nncl now erickm coach at a Brighton girls’ school, declares: “I have seen women knocked out continue to play when many men would have, retired to the pavilion.” He challenges the assertion of the Kent cricketer, A. M. Crawley, tnar women’s cricket is a mere travesty oi the game “Cricket was never intended for women. They ought to leave it' alone. It’s a man game,” was Crawley’s'statement.“lt’s a.game for hard men, who will give, knocks and take them.” •• ' ..

Major Troup says that he has some girl cricketers who would make Crawley change his opinion. “They stop the fastest ones, and.stand up to the fastest 'bowlers,” he adds., “If the s girls' can.do nothing else, they can teach the .county cricketers how to play in the rain.” f ;:' :

RUMANAN MIX-UP. ROYAL FAMILY QUARRELS. •’ LONDON, July 3. “Any friendly* act towards Queen Helen will be an unfriendly act to 1 me," King Carol told his assembled family at a Black Sea resort on the occasion of the birthday party of his mother, the ex-Queen Marie, last year. Ever since Queen, Marie has been sacrificing' personal comfort, freedom of action, and the friendship of her. wu, fighting steadily foi* justice for Helen. King,.Carol retaliated by making conditions so difficult that Queen Marie was' forced to . spend three months abroad .v When she returneu. King Carol did not bother to .meet her. Others,’ including Queen Helen’s brothers and sisters, are unable to aid the Queen Mother’s fight. Ex-King George of Greece, Queen Helen’s broat present living in Rumania, is prevented from helping, because prioi to the return of King Carol he rushed a bill through Parliament compelling the State to buy his worthless estate on which he was dependent for a l* v_ ing. He received £12,000, which Caiol demands shall be returned if he champions. Helen.