NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16320, 2 January 1924, Page 6

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

YOUTHFUL. IMMIGRANTS.

PRINCE OF WALES' HELP.

LONDON, Dec. 19—As the result of the speeches of the Prince of Wales and tho Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Bruce, at a gathering recently dealing with emigration of children, £4500 has been collected. Twenty-three boys and three girls will be sent to Australia by fiio Baradiile and 50 boys and 50 girls by the Euripides. The average age is li.

AIRMEN IN PERIL

A RESCUE REFUSED.

LONDON, Dec. 16.—Two airmen left Obetcllo in a seaplane, bound for Spezzia, and flighted on the sea owing to engine trouble, says a message from Rome. A schooner bound for Elba saw their distress signals and lowered a boat, but the airmen i - efused to be rescued, as they did not desire to be taken to Elba.

They were later blown further out to sea, and their situation became perilous. They had given up hope when the sailing ship Pol in a picked them up and landed them at Boimbino.

MISS ELLA SHIELDS

TO MARRY A THIRD TIME

LONDON, Dec. 12.—Miss Ella Shields, the vaudeville actress who visited Australia and New Zealand s some time ago, is engaged to Mr. Vincent Sharpe, a wealthy Hull ship chandler, and is to be married in March.

This will be Miss Shields' third matrimonial venture, and she may leave the stage. "My life in many respects has been sad, but I suppose this is the last part of the trail," she said. "I am fond of home life. My husband isgoing to let me to be the captain of a ship."

A COMEDIAN'S CONTRACT

DAMAGES FOR BREACH

LONDON, Dec. 19.—Talbot O'Farrell, Irish comedian, who appeared at the Melbourne Tivoli last year, has been ordered by the Court to pay the South Coast Music Hall Company £270, with costs, for breach of contract, when he sidled for Australia in 1922.

At that time ho had already signed contracts to appear at Brighton, at a salary of £l5O a week, and nb Southampton for £l2O a week.

The plaintiffs asserted that they had received tens of thousands of pounds from other artists for similar breaches of contract.

DANCING IN A CHURCH

BISHOP TAKES ACTION

NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Bishop Manning had a secret conference with the rector, the Rev. William Guthrie, and vestrymen of St. Mary's, in Bowery, as a result of newspaper stories that barefoot dancing spectacles were given during services.

Tho bishop, in a letter ordering the rector's appearance, said he was greatly shocked and scandalised at the account of tho dancing of scantily-attired girls. Huge crowds attended the services, which have attracted the widest publicity. ! The outcome of the conference has not been revealed.

RAPID AERIAL 'IHANSPORT

ALL-STEEL MACHINES

LONDON, Dec. 16.—Britain, says the News of tho World, will order three all-steel aeroplanes, each of which will have a speed of 120 miles an hour, accommodation for 25 passengers, and three tons of cargo, and a range of 20C0 miles. i

The aeroplanes will form tho nucleus of daily European express services, and eventually will be employed in the Australian service, making the journey to Sydney in a week. A message from Paris says that an official trial of an aeroplane propelled by compressed air will be held early in 1924. If the test is successful it will be possiblo to fly from Paris to London in ?5 minutes, and from Paris to Moscow in 80 minutes.

PRISONER IN RUSSIA

ITALIAN'S PRIVATIONS

LONDON, Dec. 17.—An Italian soldier, supposed to have been killed in the war, and whose family has been receiving a pension, has just returned to.his home in Verona, says the Milan correspondent of the Times.

H e is only 28, but he looks 60 as the result of his sufferings since his capture by the Austrians in 1915. Three days after he M-as taken prisoner he escaped to Russia, where he worked in a factory until the revolution broke out in 191?. He was then arrested, and forced to work in the copper mines in Manchuria. After several unsuccessful attempts to escape, he succeeded last July, with 15 other Italians, whose names he gives. All of them, he declares, died from privation.

There are, he believes, still about 250 prisoners in Manchuria, some of them Englishmen.