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Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1931, Page 2

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TAKE MORE FRUIT

OSCAR GARDEN’S NEXT TRIP

LONDON, July 4. “The next time that 1 try a long distance flight, I am taking a cargo of fruit,” said Oscar Garden, tot young New Zealander, who has an England-Australia flight to bis credit. He explained that he returned to London to learn a little more about flying. The greatest difficulty in flying to Australia was to get a meal, and the greatest danger of death was from starvation. , NO GOLD FOUND. NORTH SEA SALVAGE TRIP. LONDON, July 4. shin Reclaimer, which had secretly been fitted out and sniled from Sunderland to search for more than £1,090,000 in gold, said to have been hidden in hundreds of cheeses aboard the Dutch steamer Tubnntia, which was torpedoed in the North Sea in 1916, has returned to SunderJnnd, having found neither cheese nor gold. Besides the gold the Tubantia was carrying securities valued at millions sterling, intended to bolster up German credit in South America. She slipped .out of Rotterdam, and was sunk by a German Submarine off the Belgian coast,

ENORMOUS OUTPUT.

EDGAR WALLACE’S WRITING

LONDON, July 10

Interesting details or the output of Edgar Wallace, the crime novelist, were given when lie and Sir Gerald du Manlier, the famous actor-man-ager, gave evidence in a King’s Bench libel action. Wallace sued Lewis Charles Goldflam, of Kensington, an author, who alleged that W allace s sporting play, “The Calendar,” wu. copied from Goldflain’s book, “Luck; Fool.”

Goldflam wrote to' Wallace: “I am not going to allow you to get away with it. You are nothing else than a mean eribber.” This was circulated in the newspapers and among prominent theatricals.

The defence admitted publication and pleaded truth and privilege. Sir Patrick Hastings, K.C., for Wallace, whose full name is Richard Edgar Horatio, said “The Calendar” is no more like “Lucky Fool” than “Macbeth” is like “Charley’s Aunt.” Wallace wrote “The Calender” for du Mauri or in four days, in his own hand-writing, on the backs of telegram forms io, a Be rim hot*:*. - because his own paper was exhau'-wl.

He wrote everything aj incuritv in his name amounting‘to ami (In u words ■ a year, declared counsel. Nobody supplied him with ideas or wrote for him. He had offered £6OOO to anyone proving the contrary. He edited a Sunday newspaper and wrote throe aftlcleo a week. He was author of 129 short stories and 130 novels, The hearing was adjourned,