NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16618, 23 December 1924, Page 8

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

BRUTISH SHIPOWNER

VISIT TO AUSTRALIA. LONDON. ])«’.. 6.- Lord Macjay, a partner m the: linn of Messrs M-ad.iv and Maclntyre. ship-owners;, who was •i. member of the War Cabinet in 1918, lias left; for Australia by the 11.l 1 . and 0. liner Moron. Ho is accompanied by l.adv Mania v. -

SPORTS IN ROCKIES,

AUSTRALIANS FOR CANADA

LONDON, ])(<:•• 9.—A hundred and twenty Australians are traveling by the Aorahgi to take part in a four-day winter sportfl carnival at Banff, in the Canadian Rockies, on February 1. The Aorangi is installed with, an apparatus enabling music at saloon functions to bo broadcasted throughout the ship.

"BOY'S" RETIREMENT. ERRONEOUS SUGGESTION

LONDON. Dec. 11.—The Sporting Life, attributes "Hoy" Charlton's retirement to ill-health. "His wonderful performance in the 1500 metres race ait Paris," the papers says, "left its effect, and he was unable to do 'himself justice in the 400 metres, though Qici put up a tine performance. Doctors aire of the opinion that nis benrt is strained, and thal Kb wiH n. ed a long rest."

The Sporting Life's views arc quite erroneous, on die authority o'f (he Sydney Sum. Charlton is going on the land and is retiring from swimming only on tlxat account.

"OO OUT SILENTLY." JELLTCOE ACCUSED OF POSING

LONDON, Dec. 9.-" A pose!" This is the comment of the Manchester Gnar(lian .regarding Admiral of the Fleet Lord Jellicoc-'s statement concerning tlw battle of Jutland, which wjija cabled- to England after being published in the Herald .mi Saturday.

Lord Jellicoe said.- "I am not going to reply to my critics. The tradition of tlie Navy is that you go out isnlently." Thei paper says that Lord Jellicoe, is like the late Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, the late Admiral Lord Charles Bcresford, and it-Ho late Admiral Sir Percy Scott, nil of whom abandoned tbe Navy's tacitnnnity wihan it suited them. "The truth is." fho Manchester Guardiai: concludes, "tbat the Navy seeing to establish a tradition tbat if can do no •wrong."

PITCHING THE KEY. MERRY-CO-RiOUN.D MUSIC,

BRISBANE, Dec. 10.

A unique coincidence occurred ■during the Eisteddfod oil Wynntai while- the choir was singing an mKiceomp-a-nied test piece.

In one pilaca the sopranos Irad to finish 011 *ii sustained A, and' immediately .oyer the- page stault in fihe key of C, which "'as a. rather 'awkward change.

Just, ati the. critical moment da. sound Hkc that oif a pitc/hi pipe was distinctly heard, and everybody thoatgbt it wias a well-arranged piece of strategy to keep thef -choir in tune. But the members of the choir concerned were indignant at ihe accusation.

It was not till later in the evening that thei nuUiter was cleared up, when tlie intruding note was beard n, second lime. A nicitry-go-rmmd on the beach some- distance away again whistled a warning in "C" that another ride was to be started. I CIRCUS "CANNIBAL." MAN'S TERRIBLE STORY OF ILLI TREATMENT. i LONDON, Dec. 9.—A case characterised as eclipsing the. Grand GnignoJ, is reported from Belgrade (Serbia), where the police have arrested a "yellow-black man." whose Chinese passport gives las 'profession as "cannibal." The passport describes the man as Medio Damn Menehi, born in the Gulf of Carpentaria. The horrified authorities -criiss-exain-ined the man, who explained in broken English that- he was taJven aboard a shipwhen a bov, and sold to white men in

China-. llkt, took mm to R-uropo as 0. circus performer, starving him and shutting him in a steel cage before the public. They fed! him with raw legs of beef, compelling him. by threats, to gnaw them voraciously. The spectators were told he was a cannibal. lie escaped to Yugoslavia, whence the authorities deported him. The Manchester Guardian points out that the Bavarian dramatist Toller, in a play "The German Cripple," produced an almost equally ghastly scene, which caused rioting in German theatres.