TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21390, 18 July 1931, Page 12

TELEGRAMS

(Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 17. Fourteen men were quietly turned out of the City Mission Shelter last night. Following the recent disturbances, the men who were regarded as the ringleaders were told in the presence of a police sergeant that they were not wanted. Four others who were not present will be refused admittance. WELLINGTON, July 17.

With a sentence of two months for a similar offence about to expire, Leslie Alfred John Walters, aged 27, a labourer, was charged to-day with obtaining goods and money to the value of £lO by false pretences. The magistrate (Mr E. Page), when the he had learned his lesson, commented that he had four previous convictions, and imposed a sentence of three months’ imprisonment, concurrent with the sentence be is at present undergoing. Having been in custody for three months awaiting extradition on a charge of theft as an agent, Duncan Stewart Reid appeared before the court, and was further remanded. Counsel asked if any intimation could be given as to when the matter would be proceeded with. The reply was that there had been no further word since May 17, when a cablegram was received from the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs. The magistrate read the- cablegram, which stated: “ Columbia—Minister has advised extradition. Documents will be despatched this week from Colombia to London. Extension of Reid’s term of detention until the documents arrive in New Zealand is asked for.” Charges brought by the New Zealand Law Society against Walter Hislop were further adjourned to-day until the next session of the Court of Appeal, the practitioner being suspended from practice in the meantime.

Twenty-four thousand pigeons in England spent a day in May in the air. Two special trains —40 pigeons vans—locally known as the “Blue Train’’.from New-castle-upon-Tyne and the “Red Train" from South Shields, carried them to Petersborough and Hifcchon respectively. The pigeons were released early in the morning to make the journey home of 236 miles by their own wing power. The world’s longest daily non-stop railway run is that mads by the Flying Scotchman between Edinburgh and King’s .cross, a distance of 393 miles. The British railways also hold the highest railway speed record. This was just over 102 miles an hour, between Paddington and Plymouth in 1904. The fastest start-to-stop daily railway run in the world is between Paddington and Swindon, which is 77 miles in 70 minutes, over 66 miles an hour.