NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16619, 24 December 1924, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

“TEETHING” AT 104

"Undo Tom'' Johnson is believed in hr ‘‘teething” lov the, fourth time -'it flip ago of 10-). 11 is “second" teet h wore pulled forty years ago, and fifteen years Inter lip “cut” a third set, which lasted ton years, Pains in the gums sent him to 3 doctor, who told him that lie was again “teething.”

AEROPLANES COLLIDE

BLINDED BY THE SUN

CRASH IN MID-AIR.

LONDON. Nov. 12.—An aeroplane being Blown by a naval pilot, collided when a machine under the control of a military pilot from the Ncthernvon training school Both aeroplanes were descending facing the sun when they collided WIRELESS TRIUMPH. LONDON, Nov. 14.—Last night. within a mile of Sudbury-011 -Thames, the birthplace of Mr Disk, clear signals were again received from Mr I*isles Station at Sydney. Messages, scut, out to station Y.J.L. were also received by Mr Martin and Mr Hunter, Australian radio engineers, who state that- ex..client results were obtained by using Aus-tralian-made valves. DUBLIN BANDITS' TAKK £2OOO LOOT. DUBLIN, Nov. 15— Four armed men drove up in an automobile to the St. Stephen’s Oram branch of the Bank, of Ireland here in the morning, entered the banking room, field up the stall ot the bank and the depositors there transacting business, and collected near £2OOO in iash in the operation. The bandits then made a sensational escape with their booty through Boggot. street,

BILL FOR OPERATION 820.C0C

JURY GIVES £360.

CHICKASAW, Ok la., Nov. 15—One hundred thousand dollars is too much for a physician to charge a patient for a. major operation, a jury in the Federal Court decided in returning a. verdict for £360.

The case was brought by Dr. \Y. If. Livermore and Dr. 1). S, Downey against ,J. D. Suggs, millionaire cattle man, and banker, on whom the operation was performed. The physicians sued for £20,GCO, alleging the operation had been worth that sum to them anil that Suggs was able to pay it.

CLUB FRACAS

MYSTERIOUS DEATH

LONDON, Nov. 14. Mysterious references were made at the inquest into the cause of the death of a wealthy company director, Mr A. T. Umfrevi’lo, at the Empire (Tub. Piccadilly Circus, on Armistice night, The coroner, in adjourning the inquiry remarked on the highly suspicious circumstances in,the case. There was a sensational sequel later in the day, when Chavtrqni, the mhnaager of the club, was remanded on a charge ol utdawfuly killing Umfrcville bv striking him with his fists. Bail w r as not allowed. ' ‘‘PURIFYING PARIS." PARIS, Nov. 1. —Tho recently-es-tablished “purity brigade ’’ of tho Paris police has just carried, out in Montema.rt.re the biggest, raid that. Ims been made there for many years, ns a result of which over .100 cabaret performers and spectators, mostly foreigners, wore shepherded into police motor lorries and taken to headquarters. Many of: them, who had failed to comply with the passport regulations, are to be expelled fijom the country at once, while others are being detained in custody. The raid signal- ' ised tho beginning of a campaign planned by the new' Prefect, of Police, M. Morain, to suppress the more objectionable features of Paris night life, and so give foreign visitors a better idea of French morals. .BUSINESS SPORTSMANSHIP. LONDON, Nov. I.—Sir Frederick Lewis, speaking at the dinner of Lloyd's Register Cricket Club at the Hotel Victoria, made an appeal for sportsmanship in the relations between Capital and Labor. Latterly, he said, there had been, no doubt, a great- deal of truth in the saying, “Down with the church, down with the steeple, down with tho parson, down with the people; down with everything that’s up." Ho believed that in time things would adjust, themselves. Employshould regard it. as an obligation to interest, themselves in the lives and sports of their employees, but there, was an equal obligation on the other side, and, that, was for everyone to play the game and be sportsmen. ‘‘The faculty of sportsmanship," he said, “is one which you should cherish and sustain, because it is the most precious possession you have." MIDGET MACHINE'S RECORD. BERLIN, Nov. I.—A German airman, Botsch by,name, well-known from his success in the flights in the Shorn , has just, arrived in Berlin from a. small town in Thuringon on a 10 h.p. glider fitted with an auxiliary “Tomtit" motor. He covered Die distance of 500 kilometres in three and a half hours' time. This is a record flight for so small a machine, and is of particular interest to those interested in the future of aerial traffic and transport from the point of view that the railway journey between the 'same points takes sixteen hours and eosts, third class, some 02 gold marks, which is about Oils to-day, while Herr *Bolseli has calculated the cost of his benzine and oil at five marks, fifty, the equivalent of about six shillings. Germany is deeply interested in I Lis successful flight, which, it is believed, opens up the greatest pe.s- } sibilities for cheap machines, tlg'ir ! makers, arid users. HOTEL GUESTS MEET DEATH. ATLANTIC CITY. Nov. .10.—With » known toll of two dead 1 awl four misslug, lire which destroyed tlm Hotel Bobhwelli, and its annex, formerly the Senator, on Monday night, and for a time threatened many fine residences at this coast resort, is burning itself cut. Nothing hut. part of the walls of the hotel remain and the famous casino on tho steel pier was practically wrecked. The lose is estimated at £300,000.

Many .spectacular rescues were made. Firemen wrapped Bennett in a blanket, arid cnri'ied him unconscious down a ladder. The old man’s nurse was also carried down the ladder, while Mrs Alary Whwsldon, of Washington, was saturating the clothing of Mrs Bernard Franklin, another Washington woman! and. carrying her from, the building.

Five hundred guests at the two hotels, many in scanty attire, lied to safety through .smoke-filled corridors. So rapid I v did the lhimes, which were discovered, in the Botlnvel! shortly after 0 o’clock, gain headway that 'when the firemen arrived some of tho guest? were trapped on upper storeys and had to be taken down a ladder.