MAIL NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13091, 3 June 1913, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

$15,000 DAMAGES. LONDON, April 20. In the- King's Bench Division Mr Thomas Cormac Nelson, meat salesman, Glasgow and Liverpool, was awarded £15,000. damages ,_or alleged breach of contract and wrongful dismissal against James Nelson and Sons (Ltd.), the wellknown meat importers. Counsel said the plaintiff had been joint managing director with his brother of the defendant company. After a visit to the company's South American stations he wns asked to resign. Legal argument followed the jury's finding, and judgment was therefore not entered. AERIAL TRIUMPH ANDi DISASTER, A record flight from England to Germany was made .by Mr Gustav Hamel, who flew in rough weather witb. a passenger from Dover •'fty Cologne -without a stop, covering ,245 miles in 253 minutes?, passing over fourteen frontiers, and encountering five rain storms on the

journey. • / , .*.-,/ . ; -;■ The air elaimed 'ffvenrvictinis yesterday. Five "French Army aeronauts were' killed by the explosion of a balloon, and a fifth is dying. Two Greek airmen were killed by the fall of an aeroplane near Salonica.

MYSTERY OF MISSING BONDS. The rumors of a serious loss -- of

securities from the Bank of England have now, it is understood, been set at rest. Securities bf a ' total value of £3500 have been recovered. - The rumors concerning their disappearance had their origin in an advertisement 'published! last week in the Times. -The loss was commonly .. associated in the press and elsewhere with the ' disappearance of an official of the Bank of England, who was stated in certain quarters to have "held tho most responsible position in one. of its branches. Inquiries made in several have now established the information that the mystery of the missing bonds i3 at an end, tliat the official in- question has never occupied more than a subordinate place in the Bank, and that the bonds themselves have been traced and recovered. ..-.-..