BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15918, 2 May 1912, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Asrociation— By Electric Telegraph-—Copyright. DEFAULTER SENTENCED. LONDON, April 30

AI. Hdnion, Director of Accounts Department of tho French Foreign Office, who was arrested in April last year on charges of misappropriating public moneys, has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and fined 20,000 francs. His defalcations totalled £8340. He admitted misappropriating moneys, and pleaded that the system had been long recognised in the Foreign Office, GQvcral officials drawing increased pensions as a result of the falsification of decrees promoting them to a higher grade. THE CASTLES SISTERS.

Aliss Amy Castles has signed a contract for a fivo years’ engagement? at tho Imperial Opera at Vienna, commencing in September. Aliss Dolly Castles lias been engaged to lead a new musical comedy at New York in August. FIRE IN GUY’S HOSPITAL.

A fire at Guy’s Hospital severely damaged the biology department, but tho patients were not disturbed owing to the firemen’s promptitude in quelling tho outbreak. COAL STRIKE RELIEF FUND. Sir William Hall-Jones has received a further £llOO in aid of the sufferers by the coal strike. This will probably meet tho immediate necessities of tho distressed, as tho men in the majority of the districts are now in full work. THEFT IN OPEN DAY. A motor-car stopped at a jeweller’s shop in Brixton at midday, and a man descended, broke the window, seized a tray of fifty rings, re-entered the oar and escaped. DIAAIOND MERCHANT ROBBED. LONDON, Alay 1. Air Rosenthal, a diamond merchant of Holborn, was hustled on landing from a steamer at Folkstone, and was robbed of £BOOO worth of gems. AN INHUMAN AIOTHER. PARIS, Alay 1. A woman named Couturier was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment at Evro for fastening her two-year-old daughter to a post and burning her to death, watching the child die in agony. Two other children died in 1911 under suspicious circumstances.