NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16425, 8 May 1924, Page 6

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

BABY MOUNTBATTEN

PRINCE AS GODFATHER

LONDON. Aprl 19.—Lord and Lady Louis Mountbnttcn'fs daughter, born la#t February while Lord Monntbatten was in the '.Mediterranean with his, ship, has been christened Patricia Jydwina Victoria.

The Prince of Wales acted as godfather and Lady Patricia Ramsay as godmother. Both attended the christening ceremony at the Chapel Royal; St. James' Palace.

EX-SOLDIERS' PLIGHT.

INADEQUATE PENSIONS.

LONDON, April 17.—The Parliamentary Committee which ds investigating allegations of the inadequacy of former soldiers' pensions learned that a former colonel, receiving a, pension of 25s a week, was employed as a barma,n; that a former major was employed as a blacksmith's striker; aind thai a former captain, after Mainly seeking suitable work for months, had accepted a position as a domestic servatot.

A captain, with 18 years' service complained that he was receiving Is 9d a day, whereas the dustman caPing at his house was about- to retire on 45s a week.

AMERICAN SCANDAL.

FURTHER ALLEGATIONS.

WASHINGTON, April 18.—Mr. Gastan Means provided a new sensation in comnaction with (the Danigherty inquiry by asserting that Jess Smith divided 250,000 dollars (normally £50,000), with the former Attorney-General, after collecting tbafl amount from the New York booitleggers' ring. The ring, he said, claimed the return of the. money, hecause the jjlans for seeming liquor went wrong, but Smith, according to a confession he made to Means, told them he could not re-pay, bacatuse Daughcrlty had taken his share, amd refused to give it up. Mr. Howard Maniningto'ii and Daugherty's brother, who is a banker, have both refused to testify bfefore the committee, which may punish them for contempt.