NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16619, 24 December 1924, Page 12

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

STABLEMAN WINS £25.000 RUT WILL NOT QUIT I lIS JOB. LONDON. Nov. 17. a stableman :il lliirdenbill, Leicester, has just received £25.000, as winner of the liisli swcepOakcs. Despite his newly won we.illli lie refuses to quit bis job.

FRENCH “ACE.” KILLED ON ARMISTICE HOUR.

BIZERTE, Tunis, Nov. 11.—Captain Madon, famous French wartime “n.:e,” who shot, down more than sixty Getrinon planes, was killed at- the hour of the armistice, while looping the loop ait an aerial exhibition, attended principally by Arabs.

PLANE LAUNCHED \\\ CATAPULT. ■

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12.—Night launching of an airplane by catapult from the deck of the Dreadnought tin ti - lochia, Jkigsbi.p of the battle fleet, for the first time in the history of the navy, officers sav, was successfully awoinplished at the harbor here on Tuesday night. FIGHT WITH SEA-LION. HERMAN US (near Capetown), Get. 2. —An exciting struggle between a colored man and a. giant, sea-lion, 18it in length, look place on the beach, of Ibe lagoon, near llennaniis, Gape Province, the funner living lucky In escape with his life. The man, with tare pluck, tackled the monster with a “kerrie” (big stick), whereupon the i-a-a-linn larned' on him, and catching him by his coat-tails, dragged him into flu* sea. ' The man struggled desperately, and succeeded in getting hack to safety. Two days Inter the carcase of the great animal was washed up. and the jaws have been mounted and exhibited.

MIXED MARRIAGE LEGISLATION

OAPETOWN, Kepi. 24.—The marriage of the Scottish girl from Aberdeen to an Indian doctor here, whose romance nas been the subject of discussion in all pai ls of tin* country, lia-s revived interest in the vital problem of mixed marriages. Buell unions are tohoo in the eyes of the white population, and steps are being taken with a view, if possible, to inlrodueiiig legislation to bar marriages lietween people of different, color. The colored community of flic Western Province feel no less strongly in the matter, and at a crowded mass meeting as ('apetown pleaded for legislation on the line indicated "for the purpose, of race purfitv.”

ENGLAND ALARMED AT ’WHEA'I PRICES.

LONDON, Nov. 11. —A sensational rise in the price of wheat, at. Liverpool is causing widespread anxiety. Already there are gloomy predictions that war prices in flour will shortly be the rule. There is suspicion that Chicago wheat speculators again lrad a, hand in the boosting of prices, which went up twopence one farthing per hundred pounds. There is talk of a “world shortage,”

and rumors of a. possible famine. The Government is giving the matter its closest attention and will do everything in its power to prevent, an increase in tlie cost of living, which Inis liceu gradually rising for weeks past. EMIGRATIO'N SCTIEME. BIG SALVATION ARMY GRANT. WINNIPEG, Nov. 4.—Commissioner David Lamb, the chief of the Sa.vation Army's Emigration Department, announced here to-day that arrangements have been made for the allocation of ££SO,COO from the general army funds to carry on the work of agricultural training and settlement, especially of young men and' boys emigrating. The boys will be given a training in England, and then will be distributed from Brandon Farm, Manitoba, to Western agriculturists. Young men between 18 and 20 will be trained on the army’s farm in Western Canada.

SHILLING LOAF IN ENGLAND PREDICTED.

LONDON, Nov. 14. —Early advances in the price of wheat and Hour here are foreshadowed as a resu.t of pessimistic advices from America and Australia. An advance of one shilling and sixpence pei quarter took place to-day in Liverpool wheat quotations, and caused some excitement. As a result London flour prices wjiich had been steadily receding from the high levels reached after the first bearish advices regarding the Canadian crop, are on the upgrade, again being advanced one shilling at midnight. A shilling loaf is being predicted 1 this winter.

POLITICIAN GIVEN 25-YEAR SENTENCE.

QUINCY, Ills., Nov. 15.—William P. “Dinty” Colbeck, St. Louis politician and head of the powerful "Egan’s RiS-s” gang in that city, and eight of his associates were found guilty of the £10.823 Staunton, HI., mail robbery In May,. 1923, by a jury in the Federal Court here.

Eight, of the dofandantu, including Coibeck, were found guilty on four counts of, the indictment charging robbery, assault upon custodians of the mail, and possession of stolen mail. Judge Louis Fitzlienry sentenced each of tho nine convicted gangsters to twenty-live years’ in Leavenworth penitentiary. lie gave (lie maximum' sentences on all counts, running from thirty-live to forty-live years, but tlie sentences run concurrently. Motion for a new trial was ordered and beard immediately after the jury report, and the judge at once denied it and imposed sentence.

COST OF LAST ELECTION

CANDTDATES’ EXPENSES NEARLY

£1,000,009.

A Home Ollice return which lias been issued giving the expenses of the 1446 eandi.du.tes in Great Britain and Northmi Ireland at the last election states thail, apart, front, returning officers' charges, Hie election cost £982,340. As the vole polled numbered 14,583,393, each vote may ho said to have cost ra.tlinr over Is 4d.

The largest sum spent by any candidate was £1492, by Sir G. O. Hamilton, who stood inn successfully in the Unionist interest, for the Altrinuha.m Division. In the Isle of Wiglil, Brigadier-General Seely’s expenses were £1467, and those of liis Unionist <yiponenl were £I4BB. La«lv Terriiigton, who won the Wycombe Division, spent £1425, and the (Vmservative cumlidaile there spent £1474. In London, (be largest, expenditure was £1072 bv Mr W. H. 'Cowan, who was returned fie North Islington. Mr Whitley, the Speaker, who was unopposed, spent £6. and Mr Hn.rl.sln r:i (also unopposed), £9. Mr MncDonld’s expenses were £1052; those, of Mr Bu'd win, £844: Mr Asquith’s, £743; and Mr Lloyd George’s, £507.