BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19406, 16 February 1925, Page 8

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

INQUEST ON FLORENCE HARROLD. Pcmb Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, February 13. The inquest on Florence Harrold disclosed that she and Colonel Valentin© Harvey (formerly of the Canadian army) had been living as man and wife. Death was due to septicaemia following childbirth.—A. and N.Z. Cable. The registrar refused to. sign a burial order for Florence Harrold, a nurse, who recently stayed in a bunglow on the outskirts of Frimley, and who died in the cottage hospital. v THE TOSS OF A COIN. LONDON, February 13. During a law suit before the King’s Bench the parties intimated that they bad reached a settlement on all poiqts except whether £3OO or £4OO should be awarded the plaintiff for costs. _ The defendant’s counsel, suggested “tossing” to decide, -plaintiff’s counsel laughingly demurred, because he had not a two-headed penny. Eventually the registrar tossed the coin and £4OO won, —A. and N.Z. Cable. GERMAN SCANDALS. BERLIN, February 14. ' Dr Weirthaner, a prominent personage, ■who ’ was arrested in connection with the Barmat scandal, has been released at the instance of the judge.