NEWS BY GABLE AND MAIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15794, 7 April 1922, Page 8

NEWS BY GABLE AND MAIL.

OLDEST MISSIONARY

LONDON. March 29—The Rev. Joh: Anderson, of Edinburgh, has died at th age of 100. He was the "father" o the Church of Scotland, and the oldes missionary in the world. CHEQUE FOR. EIGHT MILLION ' DOLLARS. DETROIT, Feb. 11.—A cheque fo 8,000,000 dollars, bearing Henry Ford' signature, was turned' over to-day l< Ralph Stone, receiver of the Lincoli Motor Company, completing the transaction whereby Mr Ford becomes owner o the Lincoln property sold at auction The deeds when filed for record by M Ford will bear 4000 dollars worth o revenue stamps. "WOOL-KAISERS TO ERECT MILL. WINNIPEG, Feb. 14.—The first an nual meeting of the wool raisers o: the province was held yestereday. A company plans to build a woollen mil in Winnipeg, fabricate the raw ma ferial into yarn and cloth and appro priate as much of the local market a; it can. In respect; to securing capita for the cnerprisc, the majority of tin delegates seemed quite positive tha' the Manitoba Government would as sist them. A REGIMENT OF NURSES. In the event, of another great out break of disease such as the influenz: epidemic, the city of Chicago has i nurse militia ready to be called on on a few hours' notice. This consist: of 10,000 trained women who have been prepared for emergency work bj a school of instruction which was or ganised by Health Commissioner Join Dill Robertson, and this organisatiot has been the means of cutting the death rate, improving the sanitary con ditions of 12,000 homes and has oper ated a hospital without cost to flu city. GIRL OF 13 BECOMES METIIODIS'I PREACHER, TULSA, Okla., Feb. 17.—Miss Ori etta Stoddard, 13 years old, of Miami, Okla., was given a license t( fill a regular church pulpit by the dis trict conference of the Methodist Epis copal Church South here to-day. Miss Stoddard is believed to be the world's youongest ordained Methodist minis tress, conference officials said. ■ Tin girl, a seventh grade studeijt in Miami schools, has preached in sevcra churches in Oklahoma* and Kansas and after finishing school will take special training in theology. LITTLE WILLIE TO PUBLISH A BOOK. BERLIN, Feb. 10— The cx-Ciwr Prince of Germany will publish t book this year. He will not onlj publish one book, but .two books, anc the chances are that he will publisl three books, and if anybody,keeps or buying them ho litis enough manuscript material to publish four to ten books The ex-Crown Prince's firsC'book wii deal with his memories from birth tc the outbreak of the world war. The second book covers , the period from the world war to Weiringen. Volume three will cover everything since then and remiriiscently before.

CANADIAN BANK FAILURE. OFFICIALS TO BE PROSECUTED. VANCOUVER, March 24.—Under the instructions of Mr W. L. Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, two of Canada's leading bankers will be prosecuted, states a message from Ottawa, for making false returns to the Government regarding the assets of the defunct Merchants' Bank, whose recent failure cost the shareholders 9,000,000 dollars. The men charged are Sir. Montagu Allen and Mr Duncan . Macarow, formerly the president and general manager respectively. The bank.failed when it became known that it had lent. five million dollars to a Montreal "bucket shop,"' which collapsed. ; WOMEN POLICE TOO COSTLY A LUXURY. LONDON, Feb. 13.—London women police are "not a necessity and are too costly to maintain as a luxury," Bir William Horwood, commissioner of the metropolitan police, has found, and as a result the women's patrols, will be disbanded as soon as possible, according to the Daily s Mail. London has one hundred policewomen and maintenance of this force costs £50,000 annually. The Government 's special economy committee under Sir Eric Geddes, which reported its findings last week, also declared the utility of the women police "negligible."

CHINESE BANKS FEAR SOLDIERS. TIENTSIN, Feb. 15.—The Banks of China and Communications, according to the Hankow correspondent of the North China Daily Mail, have received insistent demands for "money, from the rapacious militarists at Wuchang under General v Wu Pei-fu's .control. They have therefore sent their stocks .of silver across the river, and deposited then) at the Foreign Concessions in Hankow for the sake of safety. The Premier, Liang iShih-yi, is still here? and 'refuses to return to Peking unless he is given a free hand. General Wii Pei-fu has been described as a coming Cromwell who may save China, from herself. He is the enemy of many would-be dictators, and also objects to Liang Shih-yi's Premiership. FORTUNE FOR. CHAUFFEUR, COURT UPHOLDS WILL. LONDON", March 23.—Mr. Justice Hill, in the Probate Court to-day, pronounced in favor of the will of the late Mr. Baron Russell, who left £20,000 t 6 his chauffeur companion. The relatives were opposing the will on the ground that deceased was of unsound mind. They alleged that Russell died at the age of 40 from epileptic convulsions after a violent quarrel with his chauffeur's mother, and they produced many extraordinary letters written by the deceased. ,■ , One of these said that he dismissed his nurse when lie was ill because her pink color clashed with the , orangecolored wallpaper of his bedroom. Another said that owing to his illness his wife neglected him, and he found a friend in his chauffeur,- The fetter accused the latter's mother of trying to separate" them and to grab his money.

FORTUNE'S SMILE. THOUSANDS FROM GAMBLING. LONDON, March 29.—More than £50,000 has been bequeathed to Miss Marjory McKay, a charming and cultured Aberdeen woman of 30, by Sh Thomas Sutherland, also an Aberdonian, to whom, she, acted as private secretary and nurse. Fortune has smiled on Charlie' Mitchell, a milk boy, of Liverpool, who, as the' result of Music Hall's victory in the -Grand National Steeplechase," won a- £SOOO sweep -with a ticket presented to him by the purchaser, an habitue of a restaurant to which Mitchell delivered milk. A Tinotype operator employed by a Liverjiool' newspaper won £3OOO in the Cotton Association's" sweep. Granely's;. victory in .the Lincolnshire Handicap c.lu'secP a flutter among the actresses at Daly's Theatre, which is by a.copjrganj'y of; which Mr. J. White, owner "of Gra'tiely, is chairman. The gentlemen of the cast were advised to put their shirts, and. the ladies other things,., on Grariely, and they netted attractive sums- Mr. White's barber won £IOOO.