NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16113, 30 April 1923, Page 3

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

TYPEWRITER CONTEST.

TORONTO, March 10.—In the third annual typewriting contest hero on Friday night the Canadian championship was won by Lottie Tessingham of Sault Ste. Marie with a average of ninetynino words a minute set over a period of fifteen minutes. The inter-provincial championship was won by Louis Marchese, Vancouver, with eighty-nine words. . There were ninety contestants.

, HELD UP AND ROBBED IN ' PUBLIC VIEW. NEW YORK, March 3.—While dozens of people: looked on, three armed bandit? late on Friday followed Frank L. Trevenen, of Westfield, N.J., assistant cashier of the Brown-Secomb Company, halfway up the stairs of an elevated station, beat him into unconsciousness, and fled in an automobile with £205 in cash and £IOB4 in cheques he was taking to a bank. Ho was not seriously injured.

CORRESPONDENCE COURSE IN ATHLETIC TRAINING. LONDO'N, March 8. —A correspondence course to train their athletes for the Olympic games at Paris is the newest word in British sports. The scheme originated with Lord Riddell's' widely-circulated News of the World. Alec Nelson, who had instructed Cambridge and army athletes for many years, is conducting the mail courses. After the preliminary stages, selected men will be invited to spend a period of intensive training at the Royal Air Force stadium, now under construction at Uxbridge, a few miles from London.

RUSSIA RENEWING TRADE WITH WORLD.

KIEL, March I.—The first shipment of grain by water from Russia since the war arrived on Tuesday to be unloaded in the North Harbor here. A Russian ship from. Petrograd brought 2500 tons of rye.

LONDON, Mardhj I.—Another step on the part of Russia to smooth the path for the resumption of trading relations with the rest of the world •is the appointment of E. F. Wise as economic adviser on foreign trade to the Central Union of Russian Co-operative Societies, and director of the London office of Russian co-operative organisations. Wise, who resigned from His Majesty's civil service in order to take up his new appointment, was acting assistant secretaiy of the Board of Trade, and British representative on the InterAllied Supreme Economic Council. He was also chief British representative in trade discussions with Krassin, which led to an agreement at various. inter-Allied conferences from Paris down to The Hague.

ESCAPED BY LIFE-LINE.

MAROONED ON WRECK.

VICTORIA (8.C.), .March s.—Truly the sea is the "land of adventure." The great February hurricane, which' littered the North Pacific coast with the wreckage of many ships, happily caused no loss of life, but the stories told by the shipwrecked, fortunate seamen are vivid indeed.

After being marooned for two days and: nights on the groaning, quivering hulk of the Tuscan Prince, dashed upon the rocks of Village Island, Barkley Sound, two members of the crew of the salvage steamer Salvor, experi-' enced a new lease of life when taken off. These sailors, George McDonald and Thomas Wilson, were working on the wreck when a boisterous gale blew up. Waves 50 feet high dashed over the hulk and all salvage work was stopped. With the sea in this mood, it was impossible to get the men off. After standing the strain for two days McDonald and Wilson decided it was: time for a change. They had been without a drop of drinking water for the two days, although there was olenty of food at hand. The water in the ship's tanks was too musty for use and a vain search was made for some of the 1500 cases of liquor said to have been aboard.

The life-line by which the crew of the Tuscan Prince had reached shore, was still available, although badly weather-beaten. The sailors decided to take a chance. Hand over hand they worked their way from tho wreck to tho rocky island shore, although tho waves plucked hungrily at them from below. From the island they wero taken aboard the Salvor's boat.

The salvage steamer had a thrilling time of it. Owing to the nature of the coast, the Salvor could only approach within two and a half miles of thewreck and all cargo taken off the> Tuscan Prince had to be relayed bysmall boats. This proved perilous work. At high tide all was well, four trips a* day being made, but when the tide was out there was ono reef which could be crossed only on tho crest of a swell. The remaining lifeboat of the ill-fated freighter was used and on her first trip over the reef her rudder was torn away. Later three jury-rudders were lost. Finally her whole bottom was torn out. on tho jagged reef. Tho Tuscan Prince was and is a true British vessel. It will be a long time before she goes to pieces, but when the Salvor left the wreck it was noticed that the slow work of disintegration had commenced. The plates are buckling badly and crocks have appeared A stiff southeaster might play havoc, but it will be_ years before the last is seen of the "noble vessel.