NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16174, 10 July 1923, Page 6

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

PRISONER RESCUES HIS ESCORT. NEW YORK, April 18—Great courage and devotion on the part of an Indian accused of murder are reported in a dispatch from Anchorage, Alaska. The prisoner was being taken in a dogsled from Fort Gibbons to Fairbanks to stand his trial, when tho U.S. marshal who accompanied him was stricken down with appendicitis. Placing the invalid in the sled tho Indian travelled ICO miles over snowy waste to a hospital, where an operation was performed. DEAN INGE’S DOUBLE. LONDON, April 20.—“1t has been hinted that Dean Inge and myself are running a race for tho Anglo-Saxon gloom championship,’’ said Mr. Lothrop Stoddard, tho well-known American writer on racial problems. “I am certain that. Dean Inge is not a pessimist, and that I am not," Mr. Stoddard continued. “We are both men who look disagreeable facts in tho face -n order by our knowledge to do our best to mako the world more like what we want it to be."

NO ALIMONY FOR WIVES UNDER SOVIET RULE.

PARIS, April 19. An interesting decision has been given by the Paris Courts on tho application of Mme. Riabouchinsky, whoso husband, whom she had divorced, was one of the best known bankers in Potrograd before the war. Mine. Riabouchinsky, who fled to Paris in 1917, applied for alimony, to which she is not entitled by Russian law. M. Puttier, president cf the Court, guided by “humanitarian principles,’’ decided “that the laws of helping the unfortunate applied to all nationalities,” and awarded her alimony of 4000 francs (about £56) per month.

COMPOSER HOLDS TIP AT OPERA

VIENNA, April IS.—The first pertorimince of Hubay’s opera, “Anna Kuraneiin, ’’ which had been fixed for April 1!) at Budapest Opera House, lias keen held up at the last moment by the composer. liubay declared liis dissatisfaction with the cost and tiie whole arrangement, demanding postponement. As the composer's wishes were disregarded by the director, Hubay appeared at the office, asking for the score for various altei'ations. The score was handed to the composer, who uid not return it, thus making the perfcrninneo impossible.

DEAF MAN AND WIRELESS. LONDON, April 18.—An Edinburgh deaf man, who had read of the benefits of listening-in to deaf people, visited, a I stening-in station the other day and had a remarkable experience. Aftor adjusting tho head phones he could not distinguish any sound, but the extraordinary circumstances was that when lie spoke to those who were with him he was able to hear tho broadcasting concert quite distinctly. Immediately lie stopped speaking, however, all sound by wireless ceased.

It is assumed that the vibration of bis own voico had some offcctron his hear-

SIX BURNT TO DEATH IN AIRPLANE SMASH.

AMIENS, France, May 14.—Six persons were burned to death when a Lon-don-to-Paris passenger airplane caught fire in mid-air and crashed to earth today, thirteen miles south of this city. The last serious accident on this air route, which is used, by many travellers between the French and British capitals, occurred when two planes collided in mid-air and fell in llames. s

The speed of tho journey, two hours and fifteen minutes, has made the air lino increasingly popular, especially with business men from the United States. An average of ten a day take the planes for Paris or London. The cost lias beefi reduced and luxury and safety of the machines increased.

MEDITERRANEAN AIR SERVICE

IS PLANNED,

PARIS, May 17. —A commercial airplane for the first time crossed the Mediterranean Wednesday. The flight, 1 owever, was merely a forerunner of a steady service which will begin as soon as the remaining five hydroplanes now building for the projected line are completed. The trip was made by Pilot Pierre Latosocro, who covered the distance from Marseilles to Algiers in ten hours, of which seven hours and fortylive minutes was the flying time. The distance is 950 kilometres, giving an average of 123 kilometres per hour. The route was via Marseilles, Perpigan, Barcelona, Majoricn, and Algiers.

£255,000 SPENT ON BUYING BOOKS. LONDON, April 19.—Dr. A. S. W. Rosen bach, the American book collector, left Southampton yesterday for New York by the White Star liner Olympic. Interviewed on board,, lie said he had spent over £200,000 in England and £55,000 in Franco and Italy since February 25, in the purchase oi' private col-' lections, as well as of books by auction.

At the Britwell sale his outlay amounted to £53,000, which procured for him half the books then sold, representing eight-ninths of their total value. Do added: These purchases are packed in a small trunk, which 1 am taking with my other luggage.

Dr. Rosenbach has concentrated on early English literature here, but whilst in France and Italy bought in addition to books, manuscripts of tho first half of the 14th century. These purchases are destined for his own and other private collections in America.

lie mentioned that within the last three years ho had expended £150,000 at throe Brjtwoll sales alone.

A QUEEN’S DASHING CAVALCADE. SEVILLE, April 20.—-There was a brilliant scene here to-day at the opening of the great annual festival, when a clashing cavalcade of fifty ladies of tho Court, lee] by Queen Victoria, rode from one end of tho Fair 1o the other. In addition to tho ladies, all of whom are members of tho best-known aristocratic families of the

land, the Queen was attended by her children and the Infanta Luisa. Each member of the royal party was mounts ed on ft pony. All wore brightly colored dresses, with Andalusian broadbrimmed sombreros.

The Queen and lior Princes and Princesses were present at the corralling of bulls, which have been brought hero for tt series of bullfights. They visited the livestock show where pearly 20,900 animals nro exhibited, Whercvey the Queen nppeared she was pelted with flowers and greeted with enthusiastic cheers. A feature of the Fair was that, for the first time on record, it opened with a football match instead of the customary bull fight,