BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13352, 9 April 1914, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

(Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright.l LONDON, April 8. .. During the prosecution of a bookmaker's clerk for receiving a letter containing a cheque addressed to another person, counsel for tho Post Office stated that the prisoner was believed to I be associated with, a gang of letter thieve* m the Post Office, who stole letters containing ' money .orders and cashed them and used them for their own purposes. (Received April 9, 8.30 a.m.)LONDON, April 8. Sergeant Eric Deune m his final flight for a pupil's certificate was attempting a sharp ' spiral descent at Brooklands. He fell lOOOffc. and was killed. (Reoeived April 9, 9.30 a.m.) The prosecution of Captain 'White, leader of the Larkinite procession at Dublin on the 14th March, has been withdrawn, K>n (the ground jthiau! the trouble was due' to a general misunderstanding. Captain Whitq has withdrawn charges against the police. The Siestern- is posted as missing. (Received' April 9, 12.20 p.m.) In the billiard match Inman has scored 12,850 and Stevenson 10,dj67. - ROME, .April 8. The Vatican is undecided as to the seat of the delegation. Monsignor Ceretti is going to Sydney, and will then decide whether . Sydney or Melbourne is suitable. NEW YORK, April 8. Professor Bancroft Cornell, of the University of Cincinatti, has announced the discovery of a light known as tjhe electric fire-fly or heatless light. It is not commercially available yet. ' ROME, April 8. The death has occurred of the Duchess Eugenia Litta, mistress of King Humbert, with whom she was left alone m his dying moments. Balzac dedicated "Une Filli Deve" to the Duchess Eugenia, and she was the model of Vinceno Velas' statue, "The Virgin's Prayer." STOCKHOLM, April 8. The King has an ulcer m the storpach, and an operation will be performed immediately. (London Times and/Sydney Sun Services.) (Received April 9, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 8. A signalman at Newport, Monmouthshire, lias patented a fool-proof railway carriage door, with a closing mechanism rod, limning the whole length of the train, which can be operated -by the guard. The railway company has given £19,000 for the patent. TOKIO, April 8. Kiyoura has abandoned the task of ' forming a Ministry.' The Council of Elder Statesmen will again meet. They '. will probably appeal to the Marquis Saionji, nominal leader of the Constitu- ' tionalists, to take office. BRUSSELS, April 8. ] A jointing by Vandyck, (representing Christ on the knees of the Virgin, valued at £10,000, was being taken by a motor oar from Brussels to Antwerp.- ' Whilst the chauffeur was repairing a tyre .punoture the picture disappeared. ATHENS, April 8. ] Tlie Epirot.es made another attempt \ to take Koritza. A ' volunteer corps • formed m the town, including a thou- ! sand gendarmes, led by Dutch officers, re- , pulsed' Jihe attack. Tlie International i Commission lias persuaded the! authori- * ties not to mobilise Albanian reservists . for action against insurgents. ] OTTAWA, April 8. . At four o'clock on Monday, Mr * Brown, Attorney at Toronto, received a ( letter from a woman complaining that her husband had com- < mitted bigamy. In 'half an hour the i husband was arrested, and next morning was sentenced to three years' im- . prisonment.