SYDNEY SUN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14038, 22 April 1920, Page 1

SYDNEY SUN CABLES.

MURDER? MYSTERIES. LONDON, April 12. A Paris message states that -the police are nonplussed by a dual murder having similar remarkable features.. A wealthy retired merchant' named ... Des .Jardins, living- at Versailles, disappeared. A trunk minus the head and . legs was recovered from the Seine., and it was believed to be his. The magistrate allowed the hand to be cut off in order to confront the merchant's wife, and son-in-law, who were, suspected of the crime. Both positively, identified the hand as that, of Des jardins. On the following, day. Des Jardins' unmutilated corpse'was recovered from another part of the, river. The first corpse was encased in an American military .. sieepiiig 7 bag.— It was. wearing English underclothing of a brand used by the British Air Service. £IO,OOO FOR ONE PLAY, ' • , ■ -j. LONDON, April 12 - Mr William Brady, the well-known 'American producer,. - has offered Miss Alice Delysia, -tlie famous revue ..'artist,: £IO,OOO to play iiroiie. film in America. He is making a similar offer to Lady Di.ana Cooper (Diana Maimers). FATAL FLY-BITE. . .. LONDON, April 10. A baby at Strood (Englaiid) was killed by a bite from a? fly, alleged to haye been in imported fruit. A Co vent- gardener states that snakes, lizards, tortoises, and one one occasion a 'possum, have been foxind in" fruit. NOVELTY IN DRESS. . LONDON. April 12. Women's novelties at the Islington Exhibition include white kid trimmings to black gowns instead of braid : waistcoats 'made entirely of kid, 'which are. hand-paiiited or embroidered in Oriental colors; and embroidered veils, described as very coquettish,. . the bottoms of which resemble an old-fashioned stock, and which are fastened with a ,'ribbonbqw, and'released from above whenthe wearer is driiikirig. tea. . The exhibition justifies the promise of bizarre specialities. Mannequins of all types, sizes, and ages are employed to show off the dresses. A 'startling bareljack gown, held up by strings of diamonds, ending ni a long fish-train, made the visitors gasp.

WELLS MAKES GOOD. LONDON, April 8. ' Spectators worked up great excitement during the fight , between Sergeant Billy Wells and Eddie McGoorty. The contest revealed "Wells in a new light. - He boxed confidently, aggressively, and cleverly throughout. r . The American V extraordinary pluck and superb riiigcraft evoked |he greatest admiration, and the memorable fight was creditable to both then: • In the first three rounds Wells delivered smartly several lefts and rights to the chin and jaw, and McGoorty tried, rushing tactics:,. In the fourth round Wells countered arid landed three blows to the face. The. referee..warned! McGoorty against balding. He was obliged to separate the boxers several times. Wells rained blows to'the' head and fttce for the next five minutes. ' McGoorty fell to the ropes in the eighth, but recovered gamely, and a ding-dong fight followed. Both men showed weakness in the twelfth round. Wells got the upperhand in the; fourteenth and floored the Amen'elffi, who fought on pluckily till the beginning of the sixteenth, when he was groggy, and fell from an under-hand, right delivered to the jaw. He was counted out.

SALE OF ARMY MOTORS. LONDON. April S. ;. It is officially announced that the Slough Motor Depot- was sold for £3,-3-50,000. It cost £2.500,000, and thus the nation realised a profit of £850.000. The purchasers also acquired the whole of the motor transport, and spare parts remaining unsold in Britain and abroad, belonging .to the Disposals Beard, for a minimum of £3,650,000, which would be increased proportionately according to the sale, price realised bv the buvens on the resale of vehicles. "The total realised up to the prejeiit, intruding the above £3,650.000 for the sale of motor transport, is £17,650,000. DESERTIONS DECIMATE AMERICAN NAVY. VANCOUVER, April 0. A message from -Washington states that Admiral Washington. Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, tokl the Senate Committee, which is inquiring into charges made by Admiral Sims, that sailors were deserting wholesale from the' United States Navy, and that unless their pay was raised a disaster wis certain. He asserted that nearly 5000 deserted last year. VANCOUVER. ApnJ 10. A messaac from Wnshiugion states that the Naval Committee of Inquiry has decided to broaden the scope of the inquiry, to include suggestions lor. the reorganisation of the Navy Department. GRETNA GREEN NOTORIETY". LONDON. April 10. i Leonora Darbey,. the heroine of a Gretna Green .elcuement. lias been offered £75 weekly for vaudeville-, appearances. The \ ariety A-rtists 1 Federation threaten to strike, on the ground that preference is being given for'notoriety rather than for talent. Leonora has declined, the offer. PRESIDENT ATTACKED. VANCOUVER, April 9. "Washington Republicans are like a bull trying to butt, a railway train off the" track J'' remarked Jlr Cluunp Clark (Speaker of the House of Representatives) 'after informing the House . that . Wilson would certainly veto the peace resolutions. The morning's debate S was interrupted by a member falling to the floor ! with a paralytic stroke, after a vigorous speech upholding President Wilson. The House, adopted' the resolution. declaring the resumption of a state of peace with Germany by~243 votes to; \ o!>. A message from Washington says that- Mr N. Lonsrvvorth (who married Miss Roosevelt), member for Ohio, speaking in the House of Repieseutatives on the peace resolution, said of President Wilson , that "voices in the air whispered to him of greater bonothan that of President." "Beguiled by the subtle flatter?,- ot sovereigns" and coiuisellQi'S. at.-.Versail-les," he continued, "President Wilson floated in .an at-mospliere of rosy dreams of power and glory, iorgett.mg his real confititnr:<t-s. the American people, and bartering their •interest for the" consummation of his personal ambition. Old foes about the Dwiee table, trained in traditions and sUinerl in methods of European and Oriental diplomacy, saw .in the League of Nations- a snlendid pivotal bargaining 'point', and: for o-verv inch they yjelde'i in non-essentials they exacted an ell in essentials."