NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15714, 4 January 1922, Page 3

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

CARUSO'S FORTUNE. BOM7, Sept. 26.—Messages from Florence state that the heirs of "the late Signor Caruso have arrived there for the purpose of making an inventory of the property left by him, which * includes villas, mansions, lands, and bank deposits amounting to about. £220,000 to £330,000. It is said that Caruso's royalties on .gramophone records alone'amount to £2,500 a year.

CARPENTER, BECOMES A MILLIONAIRE. MILAN, Sept. 24.—Bologna is to-day the home of at least one happy man. A poor carpenter, Giacomo Lusardi, bade good-bye to hisi brother and uncle 20 years ago, when they emigrated to America, and then he proceeded to forget all about them. However ,the adventurers werei not so constituted. They began as laborers, and eventually developed into builders, becoming in time millionaires. Presently the old uncle died, leaving everything to his nephew, who has now died also, and has left to Giacomo, as his /sole heir, £1,200,00. . .

TIDE IS TURNING, SAYS U.S. VICEPRESIDENT. BOSTON, Oct, 20.—There is a, definite turning of the tide in the business and industrial activities of the United States, Vice-President Calvin Cbolidge said in a message to the Boston Chamber of Commerce read at its opening assembly luncheon to-day. ' • "This upward swing to the business pendulum is clearly defined 1 to those who can read the economic signs of the times," his message said. "It is in the bank, the railroad, the post office, the mill, and the field. And it calls for a spirit of optimism and an attitude of self-reliant forward : looking confidence on the part oT the businessmen of the country." ' . ,

ENGLISH CHUKCH AGAINST' DIVORCEES. LONDON, Oct,, 22.—Owing *to the storm of protest around in the strict Cliurch of England circles over his ■performing a church marriage service for the" divorced Duchess, of Marlborough—formerly Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt—and Col. Jacques Balsan, in the Chapel Royal, Savoy, Chaplain Kev. Hugh B. Chapman announced last "night that' no further marriage services for divorced persons would be performed by him until the matter is decided by th© Archbishop of Canterbury. . '. : Anyone can be> married at the Govern-

ment registry,office, which is a piirelv civil institution, but one of the established tenets of the Church of England is that the church marries no divorced rvr son. Dr. Chapman, however, has broken away from this tenet,-indl has consented to marry innocent parties to a Although jn the area of the London ' diocese, owing to a prudent old chart™-, the Chaipel Royal is entirely outside th" the Bishop of London.-r~> Dr. Qhanman has been doing as he like* in the matter of such services.- , • The Archbishop of Canterbury alone has authority over the chapel and l th> matter was considered so serious that law officers, of the Duchy of Lancaster, in whose ground the chapel stands, have called his attention'to the matter.

CAMTmiDGFJ REFUSED TO OPEN ITS DOORS TO WOMEN. RIOTOUS SCENES FOLLOW DE-' CISION. LONDON, Oct. ; 21. There were riotous s'enes caused by undergraduates in Cambridge last night after the senate of the university definitely refused to follow the example of Oxford and had rejected * the "grace" which would have conferred limited membership in the university upon women. ' The Cambridge senate rejected a similar proposal last December,, arid later a proposal for the jncorporatiori of Girton and Newnham colleges iritd'a university for women was rejected'. This was followed by the compromise scheme embodied in the "grace" thai was rejected yesterday.'. ■'■•'.-. '-.■',' Among resident- voters there was, a strong opinion that women should he admitted to' membership in• the -university, but undergraduate 'feeling was ■against' them. , !■•>•' .-,,•. '■■■■■''." : -v- 1 -'■

Later in the day the undergraduates held a mock funeral procession df the "Last man at Cambridge," whose body was placed on a hearse and dragged through the town, by undergraduates disguised as women. At night they indulged in a rowdy celebration of the women's defeat which ended in a raid o-i Newnham College and the smashing of gates, -."-;. ■: ■ ,

A large number of undergraduates gathered outside the Senate House to hear the result of the voting. ' They kept up an incessant ary of■ .''We won't have women,'' and some hissing of women who .were looking on was indulged in.

The result of the voting was received with a great outburst of cheering. Then someone shouted "Newnhami and Girten," and the ci'owd rushed down the streets in the direction of the women's colleges. ' ' At the old hall' at Newnham. the mob seized a hand-cart belonging to the college and used 14, as a battering-ram against the gates: The cart was heavily weighted, and the gates soon were smashed, but the arrival of a strong force of police prevented the crowd from storming the college. Driven away by the police, the under* graduates then proceeded to Peile Hall, where they forced their way into the. courtyard. Proctors arrived on, the scene and apologised for the eoiidiut of the men, but were unable to put an end to the The men, laughinsr and cheering, battered at the door and; tried to force their way into the college. Then the police wiohed the spot, and finally dispersed the demonstrators.

The destroyed gates, which cost £7OO, were erected in honor of the first woman principal of Newnham.